test(windows): report a dead child instead of an opaque readiness timeout - #4902
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…d report dead children Two Windows shards failed on two different files during heavy queue contention, and both are the same defect: an in-test deadline that has to cover a Windows cold first child start, sized for an idle runner. run 35211904734 windows 3/9 failed at waitFor(holdMarker), not at the contention assertion -- that line was never reached, and holdMs was never approached. run 35210400258 windows 7/9 failed at the first wait of its case, for "listening", with no events at all. dev at 6d19a07 passed all nine Windows shards on an idle queue (run 35215552842), so neither is a defect in the code under test. This is not a number raised to make red go away. The deadlines were smaller than the range this repository has already measured for the wait they bound. COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS records a first child publishing at 50.7s while the next spawn in the same file was ready in 1.76s, with surviving readiness waits from 2.0s to 19.7s; codex-write-lock.test.ts says in its own comment that a holder child boots in 8-19s on a loaded shard, and bounded that wait at 15s. A case the file calls normal is slower than the deadline it has to meet. Each file now spends that named ceiling exactly once, on its first child, as the constant's own contract requires; every later wait keeps the ordinary bound. The second defect is that neither wait observed the child. A child that died and one that was merely slow produced the same message, so CI could not tell them apart, and the two want opposite fixes. Both waits now race the exit and report the code and stderr immediately. That is also what makes the native-main evidence readable: its stderr promise resolves at EOF, so an empty stderr in that message means the child had already exited silently rather than that it was still booting. The timeout branch in the owner harness also awaited that same EOF promise while claiming the child was still running, which could never settle. It is bounded now. Closes #4901
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe integration tests now distinguish child-process exit from slow readiness. Lock contention waits receive the child process and report exit diagnostics. Owner lifetime waits re-check events after exit and bound stderr collection for still-running children. ChangesChild readiness failure diagnostics
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| function spendColdStartAllowance(): number { | ||
| if (!coldStartUnspent) return INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS; | ||
| coldStartUnspent = false; | ||
| return COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS; |
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On Windows this returns a 90-second readiness budget, but the first test that consumes it is still capped by SPAWN_BUDGET_MS (45 seconds at line 404). If the first child takes between 45 and 90 seconds—as the cited 50.7-second cold start did—Bun cancels the test before this wait can succeed or print its new diagnostic, so the intended CI flake remains. Give the first spawning test an outer timeout that includes COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS plus enough time for its post-readiness assertions.
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| function spendOwnerColdStartAllowance(): number { | ||
| if (!ownerColdStartUnspent) return OWNER_EVENT_WAIT_MS; | ||
| ownerColdStartUnspent = false; | ||
| return Math.max(OWNER_EVENT_WAIT_MS, COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS); |
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On a non-CI Windows run this produces a 90-second first wait, while OWNER_EVENT_WAIT_MS remains 10 seconds and therefore OWNER_LEASE_BUDGET_MS caps the enclosing first child test at 40 seconds. A cold start lasting 40–90 seconds is consequently terminated by Bun before this allowance or its diagnostics take effect. Derive the first child case's outer timeout from COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS, as the existing native-profile startup test does.
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In `@tests/codex-integration/codex-write-lock.test.ts`:
- Line 381: Update the timeout helper around the final readiness-marker polling
loop to recheck the marker and child exit status after the loop ends, before
throwing the timeout error. Preserve the existing diagnostic distinction so an
exited child reports its exit code and stderr, while only a still-running child
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| throw new Error(`timed out waiting for ${path}`); | ||
| // Still running, so this one really is a slow boot rather than a crash. Say which, because | ||
| // the previous message was true of both. | ||
| throw new Error(`timed out waiting for ${path} after ${timeoutMs}ms; the child is still running`); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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rg -n -C 3 'COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS|INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS|SPAWN_BUDGET_MS|function spawnChild|function spawnChildWithEnv|child\.kill|\.exited' tests/codex-integration/codex-write-lock.test.tsRepository: lidge-jun/opencodex
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Re-check child exit after the deadline.
If the child exits during the final Bun.sleep(10) and the deadline is reached before the next loop body, the loop skips the exit check. The timeout then incorrectly reports that the child is still running and omits its exit code and stderr.
This helper uses the same diagnostic for every readiness marker, and its surrounding comments require distinguishing a dead child from a slow child. Rechecking the marker and child status after the loop is the correct localized fix.
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while (Date.now() < deadline) {
if (Bun.file(path).size > 0) return;
if (child.exitCode !== null || child.signalCode !== null) {
// ...
}
await Bun.sleep(10);
}
+ if (Bun.file(path).size > 0) return;
+ if (child.exitCode !== null || child.signalCode !== null) {
+ throw new Error(
+ `child exited (code=${child.exitCode}, signal=${child.signalCode}) before publishing `
+ + `${path}; stderr=${await new Response(child.stderr).text()}`,
+ );
+ }
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| throw new Error(`timed out waiting for ${path} after ${timeoutMs}ms; the child is still running`); | |
| if (Bun.file(path).size > 0) return; | |
| if (child.exitCode !== null || child.signalCode !== null) { | |
| throw new Error( | |
| `child exited (code=${child.exitCode}, signal=${child.signalCode}) before publishing ` | |
| `${path}; stderr=${await new Response(child.stderr).text()}`, | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| throw new Error(`timed out waiting for ${path} after ${timeoutMs}ms; the child is still running`); |
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In `@tests/codex-integration/codex-write-lock.test.ts` at line 381, Update the
timeout helper around the final readiness-marker polling loop to recheck the
marker and child exit status after the loop ends, before throwing the timeout
error. Preserve the existing diagnostic distinction so an exited child reports
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Scope of this pull requestTwo more Windows failures have since been observed on other files ( What is established here is narrower: for these two files, the first-child readiness wait was sized below the range this repository has already measured for it, and neither wait could distinguish a dead child from a slow one. Both of those are defects on their own terms and are worth fixing regardless of what else is going on. What is not established is that per-file deadline sizing is the whole cause. Evidence recorded in #4901 shows all four failing files land in batch 9 or 10 of their shard, which is where The two files are also not equally explained. The lock failure landed on the 15s deadline while the child was plausibly still alive, so the ceiling change should address it. The native-main evidence points instead at a child that exited silently — its stderr promise resolves only at EOF, so an empty stderr in a message that was printed means the process had already gone. A longer wait does not fix that; the exit race added here is what will finally report the exit code and say why. |
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… diagnostics The evidence this PR's budget argument rested on turned out to be an artifact of how it was produced. Both evidence branches were dispatched from refs whose merge-base predates #4876, and workflow_dispatch reads the workflow from the dispatched ref, so those runs used a ci.yml without OCX_TEST_NO_QUEUE and reproduced exactly the batch-serialization bug #4876 had already fixed. The batch-4 log shows it directly: one line saying a bare Bun worker is waiting for another test run to release the user lock, then eight minutes with no (pass) at all. Confirmed on the branches: OCX_TEST_NO_QUEUE appears 0 times in codex/ci-evidence-4875's ci.yml and once in dev's. So whether these deadlines are actually too small is undetermined again, and the COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS use is withdrawn. Both files keep their original bounds. What does not depend on that evidence stays. Neither wait observed its child, so a child that died and one that was merely slow produced the same message; both now race the exit and report the code and stderr immediately, re-checking the awaited signal first so a child that signalled and then exited is not misreported. And the owner harness's timeout branch awaited a promise that only resolves at EOF while describing a child that is still running, which could never settle; it is bounded now. Those are diagnostic defects on their own terms, and they are what would have made the original evidence readable in the first place.
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🟡 Minor · Re-check the child state after the bounded stderr… · native-main-owner-lifetime.test.ts:219-235
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRe-check the child state after the bounded stderr read.
waitForchecksexitCodeandsignalCodebefore entering the timeout branch. While thePromise.raceat line 232 waits, the child can exit or the awaited event can arrive. The code then reportsthe child is still runningwithout checking the updated state.After the race, re-check
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Two Windows shards failed on two different files during heavy Actions queue contention, and both are the same defect: an in-test deadline that has to cover a Windows cold first child start, sized for an idle runner.
The blame moved between files; the cause did not, which is the pattern
tests/helpers/test-budget.tsopens by warning about.What actually failed. Run 35211904734
windows 3/9failed atwaitFor(holdMarker)(line 340, called from 459), so the holder child never published its marker. The contention assertion on the next line was never evaluated andholdMswas never approached; the 15.5s and 17.2s case durations sit on the 15s deadline. Run 35210400258windows 7/9failed at the first wait of its case, forlistening, withevents=[]. Neither is a defect in the code under test:devat6d19a07369passed all nine Windows shards on an idle queue (run 35215552842).Why this is a sizing error and not a budget raise
The deadlines were smaller than the range this repository has already measured for the wait they bound.
COLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MSrecords, from run 35118018849, a first child publishing its port at 50.7s while the next spawn in the same file was ready in 1.76s, and puts surviving readiness waits at 2.0s to 19.7s.codex-write-lock.test.tsstates in its own comment that "a spawned holder child boots in 8-19 s on a loaded windows-latest shard" — and then bounds that wait atINTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS(15s). A duration the file itself calls normal is slower than the deadline it has to meet.test-budget.tsnames that condition directly: an internal deadline below what the wait needs "reads as a logic error".So this does not invent a number. It spends a constant the repository already defined for this exact phenomenon, with both of that file's conditions already argued on it, and it honours the constant's own usage rule — "consume it exactly once, for the readiness wait of a file's first child". Each file spends it once, on its first child. Every later wait keeps its ordinary bound, because by then the cold start has been paid and a slow answer means something else. No assertion budget, no
holdMs, and no test timeout changes.Ablation
The ablation condition asks whether a budget could hide a vacuous test. It cannot here, because the wait is a precondition, not the assertion.
What these cases assert is what happens after the child is ready: that a second real process is refused the lock while the first holds it and resolves to the same lock identity afterwards, and that a successor scrubs a hard-killed auth write. Extending the readiness wait cannot make any of those pass — it only lets them be evaluated at all. Ablate the behaviour under test and the assertions still go red at any deadline, because they run once the child answers and are unaffected by how long that took. And a child that never signals still fails: with the exit race below it fails immediately, and otherwise at the deadline.
Running the ablation was not possible here, so this is the argument rather than a measurement.
The second defect: a dead child and a slow child reported identically
Neither wait observed the child process.
waitForin the lock test polled a file size and threwtimed out waiting for <path>with nothing else;ChildHarness.waitForprinted events and stderr but never inspectedexitCode. The two failure modes want opposite fixes and could not be told apart from CI output.Both now race the child's exit and report the exit code and stderr the moment it happens, re-checking the awaited signal first so a child that published and then exited is not misreported. The timeout message now states that the child is still running, which is the case it now describes.
This is what makes the native-main evidence readable. That harness's stderr promise resolves at EOF, so
stderr=being empty in a message that was printed means the child had already exited silently rather than that it was still booting.Related: the timeout branch awaited that same EOF promise while claiming the child was still running, which for a live child could never settle — it would hang until the enclosing budget killed the test with a worse message. It is bounded now.
On #4876
Asked whether the batch-queue bypass could have worsened this. Static reading says no for these two runs. The batches are sequential invocations inside one job step, so disabling the outer queue does not make them overlap; the preload lock it disabled serialized separate runners sharing one machine. Both failing runs were
pull_requestevents, whereselect-windows-runnermarks the run untrusted and pins GitHub-hosted runners, so each job had its own VM and no such sharing existed. The observation would not transfer to a self-hosted Windows box, where jobs can share a machine; that path is not reachable frompull_requestand is not assessed here.Verification
Static reasoning plus the hosted evidence above; no local suite was run, so hosted CI at this head is the verification of record. Windows shards are dispatch-only, so the exact-head Windows evidence is a maintainer dispatch.
Both changed files are tests. No production code is touched, no test is deleted, skipped, quarantined, or retried, and no platform is excluded.
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Closes #4901
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