fix(daemon): kill launcher workers via launch-time process group - #980
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WalkthroughThe change adds non-reaping process-group termination for started commands. Daemon worker kill and cancellation now use launch-time process-group identity. Mutex-protected reap state prevents signaling after ChangesProcess-group termination
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Worker shutdown can race with reap state updates, potentially signaling an unrelated process group or causing conflicting waits. The change is not merge-ready until worker lifecycle transitions are serialized and covered by a concurrent regression test. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Worker as execWorker
participant Command as exec.Cmd
participant Background as background.TerminateOwnedProcess
participant Group as Process group
Worker->>Command: Wait or Kill
Worker->>Background: TerminateOwnedProcess(cmd)
Background->>Group: Signal launch-time process group
Group-->>Command: Stop worker and descendants
Worker->>Command: Wait for reap
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internal/background/terminate.go (1)
25-31: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winState the fallback behavior in the API comment.
terminateOwnedProcessusesterminateProcesswhen the command lacks theConfigureChildProcessGroupSetpgidconfiguration. State this precondition, or document the process-tree fallback. The current comment promises launch-time process-group identity for calls that do not meet that condition.As per coding guidelines, “PR description, help text, and comments must match what shipped.”
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In `@internal/background/terminate_posix_test.go`:
- Around line 56-71: Update internal/background/terminate_posix_test.go lines
56-71 to wait until cmd.Process.Pid is observed in zombie state without calling
Wait before invoking TerminateOwnedProcess. Apply the same synchronization in
internal/daemon/launcher_posix_test.go lines 41-49 for w.cmd.Process.Pid before
calling w.Kill; preserve cleanup and ensure both tests exercise the
unreaped-leader failure path.
In `@internal/background/terminate.go`:
- Around line 33-34: Add failure-path tests for TerminateOwnedProcess covering
both a nil command and an unstarted exec.Cmd; assert each returns an error
without panicking.
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In `@internal/background/terminate.go`:
- Around line 25-31: Update the API comment for TerminateOwnedProcess to state
that launch-time process-group termination applies only when
ConfigureChildProcessGroup enables Setpgid, and document the terminateProcess
fallback when that configuration is absent.
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Approving. Your CI had never run: held at action_required behind the fork gate with only CodeRabbit green. I released it and the full suite is green.
One thing worth fixing when convenient, and it is about coverage rather than correctness.
TestExecLauncherCancelTerminatesProcessGroup is the only test for the cmd.Cancel half of this change, and it passes identically with the fix reverted. Its worker is sh -c 'sleep 300 & echo $!; wait', so the group leader stays alive until cancel(), and a live leader is exactly the case the old code already handled. The change is about the leader having already exited, which the test never produces.
A worker that exits immediately while leaving a background child alive would exercise it. That is the same shape as the bug this PR fixes, so it is worth pinning; otherwise a later refactor can drop the Cancel wiring with CI green.
The rest held up under probing. Capturing the group at launch rather than deriving it at kill time is the right call, and I could not construct a case where the captured gid is zero and the kill reaches the parent's own group.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
AGENTS.md:72
The PR merge base is27b319ca, while currentmainis1b5db176; the PR is currentlyMERGEABLEbut GitHub reports it as blocked. Repository guidance makes a fresh base a hard blocker, so rebase and resolve against the live target before merge.
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[P3] Exercise cancellation after the group leader has exited
internal/daemon/launcher_posix_test.go:66
The PR changes two independent consumers of the process-group helper:execWorker.Killand theexec.CommandContextcancellation callback. TheKilltest correctly creates a leader that has exited but remains unreaped while its background child is still alive. This cancellation test instead runssleep 300 & echo $!; wait, which keeps the shell leader alive untilcancel().That distinction is the root cause of the coverage gap. With a live leader, the pre-PR
TerminateProcess(pid)implementation can callGetpgid, rediscover that leader's group, and kill the same child. Thus the test stays green ifcmd.Cancelis reverted to the old implementation; it never reaches the DarwinGetpgid→ESRCHpath that this change is intended to avoid.Please make the cancellation test start a configured worker whose leader exits immediately after forking a child that keeps the stdout pipe open, wait until the leader is an unreaped zombie, then cancel the context. Assert that the descendant stops and that
Waitstill reaps the worker. Keep the existing live-leader test only if it provides separate value; the important regression assertion is the exited-leader case. -
[P3] Document the non-group fallback for
TerminateOwnedProcess
internal/background/terminate.go:25
The new exported helper's comment promises launch-time process-group termination, but that is only one branch of its implementation. On POSIX,terminateOwnedProcessusesTerminateProcessGrouponly whenConfigureChildProcessGroupestablishedSysProcAttr.SetpgidwithPgid == 0; every other command intentionally falls back to PID/tree termination. Windows also uses its rooted process-tree implementation rather than a persistent POSIX-style group identity.The root cause is therefore a wider API comment than the implementation contract. A future caller can reasonably read the current comment as a group-termination guarantee, pass an ordinary
exec.Cmd, and unknowingly receive the fallback semantics instead.Please document the existing precondition and fallback: direct launch-time group termination applies to commands configured by
ConfigureChildProcessGroup; otherwise the helper uses the safe platform PID/tree path. This should be a documentation-only change—do not alter the established POSIX or Windows behavior.
execWorker.Kill and CommandContext Cancel still called TerminateProcess(pid), which rediscovers the group with Getpgid. On Darwin that lookup returns ESRCH for an unreaped group leader and leaves descendants running. Route both sites through TerminateOwnedProcess so they use the ConfigureChildProcessGroup identity instead. TerminateCommand is the wrong helper: it Wait()s, and the pool still owns the reap. Fixes Gitlawb#861
Wait until cmd.Process.Pid is a zombie via /proc/<pid>/stat (or ps) without Wait/reaping so the Darwin Getpgid ESRCH path is actually exercised. Cover TerminateOwnedProcess(nil) and an unstarted *exec.Cmd failure paths.
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The earlier production-code and regression-coverage requests are addressed on this head. I found one remaining test-lifecycle issue that should be addressed before this is ready.
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[P3] Arm independent cleanup before validating the subprocess fixture
internal/background/terminate_posix_test.go:54
The root cause is that cleanup is derived fromchildPID, so it is not registered until after the fixture has successfully produced and parsed that PID. Oncecmd.Startsucceeds, however, every subsequent operation is fallible. Here,ReadStringorAtoican callt.Fatalbefore line 65; because the forkedsleep 300inherits stdout, a broken PID handoff can also keep the read open for the lifetime of that child. In both launcher tests, the gap is wider: after launch, the handle type assertion, theSetpgidassertion, andreadWorkerPIDLineall run before cleanup is registered (launcher_posix_test.go:30-43and82-95). A regression inConfigureChildProcessGroup—the exact setup these tests inspect—therefore fails the assertion while leaving the leader unreaped and the descendant alive.Fix the lifecycle rather than adding cleanup only around the currently observed assertion. After every successful start/launch, immediately arm an idempotent fallback that will at least terminate and reap the owned leader. Acquire the descendant PID through a bounded readiness step, register a direct descendant fallback as soon as that PID is known, and only then run assertions that can abort the test. Once group ownership is proven, group cleanup may be used as an additional path, but cleanup must not depend solely on
TerminateOwnedProcess,execWorker.Kill, or theSetpgidbehavior being tested: those are precisely the behaviors a regression may break. Ensure only one path callsWait, tolerate already-gone processes during cleanup, and keep the existing assertions that production termination itself does not reap before the caller-ownedWait.
Overall guidance
The production delta is small, but it crosses an entire process lifecycle: configure identity before launch, retain that identity after the leader exits, signal descendants, preserve caller ownership of Wait, and clean up correctly when either production behavior or the test fixture fails. The review rounds have come from proving one stage at a time—first the launch-time group target, then the cancellation consumer, then the unreaped-leader regression shape, then the public fallback contract—without auditing every lifecycle edge together. Please close this class in one pass rather than patching only the latest line comment.
Before the next review, write down and verify a compact decision table covering both execWorker.Kill and cmd.Cancel across these states:
- leader live versus exited-but-unreaped;
- descendant absent versus still running and holding stdout open;
- normal termination versus an error during fixture setup, PID handoff, assertion, or cleanup;
- signal ownership versus reap ownership, including which path is allowed to call
Wait; - configured POSIX process group versus the documented unconfigured fallback and Windows rooted-tree limitation.
For each row, identify the retained identity, who sends TERM/KILL, who reaps, what error reaches the caller, and what independent cleanup runs if the assertion fails. Then mutation-check the two production consumers separately on Darwin: reverting only execWorker.Kill and reverting only cmd.Cancel should each make its dedicated unreaped-leader test fail for the intended Getpgid/ESRCH reason (Linux may continue to resolve the zombie leader's group and is not a substitute for that check). Also break or bypass process-group configuration and break the PID handoff while running the tests; the test should fail promptly, reap its leader, and leave no sleep 300 descendant. A shared helper for bounded PID acquisition and idempotent leader/descendant cleanup would reduce the chance that the three fixtures drift, as long as it does not hide which production operation is being asserted.
The hosted CI and PR Auto Review workflows now pass on the current head, ce270fb4, including the Linux, macOS, and Windows matrix. That validates the code presently under review. Address the cleanup finding in one focused final update, add the failure-path or mutation evidence described above, and have the same hosted matrix pass on that resulting head before requesting re-review. Keeping the remediation to one stable head will give the next reviewer a single result covering cancellation, Kill, non-reaping, failure cleanup, and all supported platforms instead of another partial round.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
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[P3] Acquire the descendant cleanup target before setup assertions
internal/daemon/launcher_posix_test.go:51
Both launcher fixtures assertSetpgidbefore readingchildPID, and they register cleanup only after requiringh.(*execWorker). If process-group setup regresses—the exact setup these tests validate—the assertion aborts withchildPID == 0;kill(-leaderPID)addresses no owned group, while killing/reaping the already-exited leader leavessleep 300running. A Setpgid mutation reproduces this: the intended assertion fails and the surviving descendant is reparented to PID 1.The root cause is the fixture's ownership ordering. A successful launch creates resources before the test has armed cleanup through the generic
WorkerHandle, and the test validates the group identity before it has independently learned the descendant identity. That makes cleanup depend onSetpgid, even though a brokenSetpgidsetup is one of the failures this regression test is supposed to expose. The latest patch bounds the PID read and adds cleanup, but it does not change that dependency, so the earlier independent-cleanup request is only partially addressed.Please restructure both launcher fixtures around an explicit handoff: immediately after launch, arm an idempotent leader/reap fallback before any concrete-type or configuration assertion; use a bounded fixture handshake to obtain the descendant PID and register its direct fallback before allowing the leader to exit; only then assert the concrete command and
Setpgidstate, wait for the unreaped-zombie state, and invoke the exact production consumer (w.Killor context cancellation). Preserve one caller-ownedWait, the assertion that production termination does not reap, and the Darwin-specific exited-leader oracle. Cleanup must tolerate already-gone processes, but it must not rely solely onTerminateOwnedProcess,execWorker.Kill, or the group configuration being tested.
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The production change is small and appears directionally correct. The repeated findings have come from treating the regression as one signal call instead of one ownership lifecycle. Each update has proven the next happy-path checkpoint—launch-time group identity, zombie synchronization, cancellation coverage, bounded PID reads—without first defining what must happen when any earlier checkpoint fails. That is why feedback has appeared one stage at a time.
Before another update, please make the two launcher tests share one explicit lifecycle model:
| Phase | Required invariant | Failure behavior |
|---|---|---|
| Launch returns | The returned handle and leader are owned; cleanup is already armed; no assertion has run. | Terminate and reap the owned leader exactly once. |
| Descendant handoff | The PID is obtained through a bounded synchronization step and a direct descendant fallback is armed immediately. | Fail promptly; do not leave an unknown sleep 300 holding stdout. |
| Setup validation | Only after cleanup owns both levels should the test inspect *execWorker, SysProcAttr, Setpgid, and Pgid. |
A configuration regression fails the assertion without depending on that configuration for cleanup. |
| Regression state | The leader has exited but remains unreaped, and the descendant is still alive. | Do not call Wait early or weaken the Darwin Getpgid/ESRCH scenario. |
| Production action | w.Kill and cmd.Cancel are exercised separately. |
Each consumer must terminate the descendant through launch-time identity without reaping the leader. |
| Finalization | The caller performs the single Wait, verifies the descendant stopped, and leaves cleanup idempotent. |
Already-gone errors are tolerated; no second path owns Wait. |
Mutation-check the completed lifecycle rather than only rerunning the happy path:
- Disable or bypass
ConfigureChildProcessGroup; the setup assertion should fail promptly, the leader should be reaped, and no descendant should remain. - Break or suppress the PID handoff; the test should time out promptly and leave neither leader nor descendant behind.
- On Darwin, revert only the
execWorker.Killcall site and then only thecmd.Cancelcall site. Each dedicated test should fail for the intended exited-leader rediscovery reason, proving that both tests are load-bearing independently. - Keep the normal-path assertions that termination itself does not call
Waitand that the caller can still reap afterward. - The Linux, macOS, Windows, security/code-health, performance-smoke, and Zero Review checks now pass on
d9ddcd86. Run the same hosted matrix on the resulting fix head. Linux can validate general lifecycle behavior, but it does not replace the Darwin mutation because Linux may still resolve an unreaped zombie leader's group.
Please address this as one fixture-lifecycle correction rather than another line-local cleanup change. A small shared helper is appropriate if it makes ownership, bounded handoff, direct descendant fallback, and the single reap owner explicit; it should not hide which production consumer each test is proving.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
The earlier requests to exercise cancellation after an exited leader, document the unconfigured fallback, bound PID handoff, and arm descendant cleanup before setup assertions are addressed on this head. Two lifecycle edges remain.
Merge readiness
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The Linux, macOS, Windows, security/code-health, performance-smoke, and Zero Review checks passed ond9ddcd86, but the currentc89e5710head adds another cleanup commit and both GitHub Actions suites are held ataction_required; only CodeRabbit has run on this SHA. Release the fork-gated workflows and have the required matrix pass on the head that would merge. In particular, the Darwin job is the only hosted execution of theGetpgid/exited-leader behavior this PR targets.
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[P2] Bound retained-group signaling to the unreaped command lifetime
internal/daemon/launcher.go:80
The root cause is that this change treats a permanent launch fact—SysProcAttr.Setpgid && Pgid == 0proves the child started as group leader N—as if it were permanent ownership of numeric group N. That ownership lasts only while the command is live or exited-but-unreaped.exec.Cmd.Waitreleases the process identity but deliberately leavescmd.Processnon-nil, so the wrapper's current guard cannot distinguish those states; the POSIX path then bypassesos.Process's finished-process protection and sends raw signals to-cmd.Process.Pid.There are two production routes into that stale state.
Pool.Draincopies active handles while holdingp.mu, unlocks, and only then callsKill; in that intervalrunOncecan completeWaitand deferreduntrack. Separately, Go'sCommandContextwatcher can choose context cancellation whileProcess.Waitis completing and invoke the customCancelafter the command has been reaped. A concrete failure sequence is: the owned worker used N;Waitreaps it; an unrelated process later reuses N as its own group ID, exits, and leaves descendants in leaderless group N; the stale Kill/Cancel callskill(-N, ...)and terminates that unrelated group. On the base implementationGetpgid(N)sees no process N and returnsESRCH, so the positive-PID fallback also stops withESRCH; the new retained-identity route is what reaches the unrelated leaderless group.Please fix the ownership model, not only the observed call site. Kill/Cancel and Wait/Release need one atomic lifecycle boundary: direct group signaling must remain available after the configured leader exits but before it is reaped, and must become impossible before Wait releases N for reuse. A bare
ProcessStatecheck is insufficient because an unsynchronized read races Wait; documenting a precondition is also insufficient while both current consumers can violate it. The implementation can use synchronization on the worker/helper or an equivalent process-identity guard, but should not revert toGetpgidrediscovery or make the termination helper reap. Add deterministic coverage that pauses a snapshotted Kill and the cancellation callback across final Wait, proves neither signals after ownership is relinquished, and separately proves both still kill descendants when the original leader is exited-but-unreaped. -
[P3] Disarm raw PID fallbacks after successful fixture finalization
internal/daemon/launcher_posix_test.go:35
The root cause is the same ownership/lifetime mismatch in the test fixtures: cleanup callbacks are armed with raw numeric targets, but nothing disarms them when the fixture successfully transfers through production termination into caller-owned finalization. Both launcher tests explicitly callw.Wait()and verify the descendant stopped; LIFO cleanup then callsh.Kill()andh.Wait()again and unconditionally sends SIGKILL to the stored child PID, leader PID, and negative leader PGID.TestTerminateOwnedProcessKillsChildAfterLeaderExitslikewise performs its successfulcmd.Wait()and then retains unconditional raw child/group signals. Once Wait releases those identities, a descheduled test can resume cleanup after one has been reused and signal a process the fixture never owned. The repeated Wait deterministically returns the already-called error, which is simply discarded, so the code no longer expresses the single-reap invariant the tests claim to verify.Please model fixture cleanup as idempotent ownership rather than a list of unconditional deferred kills. Immediately after launch, arm the generic leader/reap fallback; immediately after the bounded PID handoff, arm the independent descendant fallback; once setup is proven, retain whatever group fallback is useful. Then have one finalization path perform the sole caller-owned Wait, verify the descendant is stopped, mark ownership complete, and make every cleanup callback a no-op on that completed state. Failure before any phase must still clean up everything learned up to that point, including when group setup or the production helper itself is broken. A small shared fixture owner/helper is appropriate if it makes
leader owned,descendant known,group proven,reap claimed, andfinalizedexplicit; it should not hide whether the test is exercisingw.Kill,cmd.Cancel, orTerminateOwnedProcess.
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The repeated review rounds are not coming from several unrelated bugs in the production change. The production objective is small and directionally correct, but it crosses one complete ownership lifecycle: configure an identity before launch, retain it after leader exit, signal descendants, preserve one reap owner, relinquish the numeric identity, and make every later cleanup inert. Each update has so far repaired the next visible checkpoint—route through launch-time identity, cover cancellation, create an exited-leader fixture, bound PID reads, arm earlier cleanup—without making that lifecycle an explicit shared invariant. That is why the next failure has repeatedly appeared one phase later.
Please close the class as one lifecycle correction rather than another line-local patch. Before coding, write down and enforce this state table for execWorker.Kill, cmd.Cancel, TerminateOwnedProcess, and all three fixtures:
| State | Identity that is still owned | Allowed termination | Reap owner | Required failure behavior |
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| Started, leader live | command/process group N | direct group TERM/KILL | caller/pool | propagate termination errors; cleanup may use owned leader/group |
| Leader exited, not reaped, descendants live | retained group N; leader PID cannot yet be reused | direct group TERM/KILL without rediscovery | caller/pool | this is the Darwin regression and must continue to work |
| Termination completed, not reaped | retained command identity until Wait | an idempotent repeat group signal is safe only while synchronized with the pending reap | caller/pool | preserve exactly one Wait owner and prevent signal-after-reap |
| Wait/Release in progress | ownership is transitioning | Kill/Cancel must serialize with that transition | the already-selected waiter | no unsynchronized ProcessState probe or raw stale signal |
| Reaped/finalized | no numeric PID/PGID is owned | none; repeated Kill/Cancel/cleanup is inert | none | never signal stored numeric identities; repeated cleanup is a no-op |
| Setup/handoff/assertion fails | only identities successfully acquired so far | independent fallbacks for those identities | exactly one fixture cleanup path | fail promptly without depending on the behavior under test |
Use deterministic interleavings rather than only happy-path reruns. At minimum, verify all of the following on the resulting head:
- Pause Drain after it snapshots a worker, let
Waitfinish and relinquish ownership, then resume Kill; no signal may be sent. - Race
CommandContextcancellation with final Wait; a completed command must be treated as done, not as an indefinitely owned group. - Keep separate Darwin mutations that revert only
execWorker.Killand onlycmd.Cancel; each exited-but-unreaped regression must fail for the intended rediscovery reason. - Bypass group configuration; setup assertions must fail promptly while independent leader and descendant cleanup still completes.
- Break or suppress PID handoff; the bounded failure must leave neither leader nor descendant behind.
- Let every fixture pass normally, then assert cleanup performs no second Wait and sends no raw signal after finalization.
- Run the complete Linux, macOS, Windows, security/code-health, performance-smoke, and Zero Review matrix on that single final head.
The key distinction to preserve everywhere is exited is not reaped. The former is why this PR needs retained launch-time group identity; the latter is when ownership ends and numeric reuse becomes possible. Encoding that distinction once in the production lifecycle and once in the fixture owner should prevent another round of feedback that merely discovers the next phase boundary.
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- Around line 63-74: The execWorker Wait/Kill lifecycle must serialize reaping
and termination state transitions. Update Wait and Kill to use a state protocol
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Wait calls, and ensures Kill cannot terminate a process after reaping has begun
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fi
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printf '%s\n' '--- Windows termination implementation ---'
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printf '%s\n' "--- $f ---"
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Serialize worker reap state transitions.
execWorker.Wait releases w.mu before w.cmd.Wait() and sets w.reaped afterward. If the command exits before that update, execWorker.Kill can call background.TerminateOwnedProcess on the reaped command. On POSIX, a reused process-group ID may receive the signal. Concurrent Wait calls can also both pass the guard and invoke cmd.Wait(), although os/exec.Cmd permits only one wait. Use a state protocol that prevents both races, and add a concurrent regression test.
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In `@internal/daemon/launcher.go` around lines 63 - 74, The execWorker Wait/Kill
lifecycle must serialize reaping and termination state transitions. Update Wait
and Kill to use a state protocol that reserves the reap operation before calling
cmd.Wait(), prevents concurrent Wait calls, and ensures Kill cannot terminate a
process after reaping has begun or completed; add a concurrent regression test
covering both races.
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Fixes #861
The issue is not
issue-approved. Proceeding anyway — intern broadening per @Vasanthdev2004 / @euxaristia, not a Gitlawb maintainer exemption.What changed
Follow-up from #774:
TerminateProcessGroup/terminateOwnedProcessexist specifically to avoid DarwinGetpgidESRCH on an unreaped group leader, which madeTerminateProcessTreesilently signal only the dead leader and leave descendants running.Two launcher call sites still held the
*exec.Cmdthat went throughConfigureChildProcessGroupbut calledbackground.TerminateProcess(pid)(the fragile rediscovery path):execWorker.Killcmd.Cancel(CommandContext group terminate)Both now call
background.TerminateOwnedProcess(cmd), which uses launch-timeSetpgididentity.TerminateCommandis the wrong helper here: itWait()s, and the pool still owns the reap viaWait().internal/specialist/exec.gois left alone (bare PID, no launch-time group knowledge), as the issue asked.Tests
TerminateOwnedProcessdoes not reap; callerWaitstill worksTerminateOwnedProcesskills a forked child after the unreaped leader has exited (the Darwin Getpgid ESRCH scenario)execWorker.Killuses process-group termination, does not reap, and still allowsWaitcmd.Cancelkills the process group of a still-running worker with a forked childgo testwas not run locally (no checkout; onlygofmt -eon patched files). CI will run them.Summary by CodeRabbit
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