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PR 026 P2: Use nonignorable fallback child signal - #27

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PR 026 P2: Use nonignorable fallback child signal#27
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Purpose

Stacked validation PR for:

PR026-CODEX-NONIGNORABLE-FALLBACK-SIGNAL

This PR is intentionally narrow and quarantined.

It is a CHILD OF PR #26.

It targets:

repair/pr025-termination-fallback-child-leak

It does NOT target PR #25 directly.

It does NOT target protected PR #10 directly.

It does NOT target main.

Finding

Finding ID:

PR026-CODEX-NONIGNORABLE-FALLBACK-SIGNAL

Classification:

CURRENT P2

Affected parent HEAD:

b55ac5877e93cc4fafd27e5bd1089c9031fcc68f

After mandatory post-spawn dispatch hardening fails, the ordinary termination strategy can fault before delivering a signal under hostile ChildProcess runtime state.

PR #26's bounded direct-child fallback then called ChildProcess.kill() without an explicit signal.

On POSIX that defaults to SIGTERM, which a child may catch or ignore.

Because this fallback gets one bounded direct-child attempt and does not wait/escalate, a directly owned child could remain alive after caller-facing rejection.

Repair

The bounded repair changes only the fallback signal for this exact fault path to an explicit:

SIGKILL

The fallback still targets only the directly owned child.

It does not signal a process group or tree and does not introduce any stronger descendant-termination guarantee.

Adversarial regression coverage now includes a POSIX child that installs a SIGTERM handler before the fallback executes and verifies transport-abandonment evidence before harness cleanup.

Changed files

Exactly:

  • src/adapters/process-transport.ts
  • tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts

No unrelated files changed.

Protected invariants

The repair preserves:

  • original hardening error visibility;
  • eventual caller-facing settlement;
  • no SPAWN_FAILED laundering;
  • no AgentExchange laundering;
  • no discarded internal rejected Promise;
  • no double settlement;
  • fallback failure containment;
  • cleanup failure containment;
  • spawn-failure absorber safety;
  • timeout/cancellation precedence;
  • bounded execution;
  • process-group behavior outside this fallback;
  • Windows behavior;
  • raw-output behavior;
  • environment isolation;
  • hostile-runtime protections;
  • platform-qualified termination semantics;
  • no stronger descendant/process-tree termination guarantee;
  • frozen AgentBridge architecture;
  • AgentBridge V1 managed-repository read-only authority;
  • dormant/unwired transport state.

Exact quarantine identity

Parent PR #26 HEAD:

b55ac5877e93cc4fafd27e5bd1089c9031fcc68f

Repair commit:

7f4756329ec8434db6472eb3c2b95ca59d426aef

Validated patch SHA-256:

D1ACB9D2AA98AF5289A91BEA439C98DB7C4DC2DD14193D342C9E27877C3D21BF

Patch bytes:

12468

The committed patch was mechanically verified byte-for-byte identical to the candidate that passed fresh independent validation.

Independent validation

Fresh validator result:

PASS

The validator independently:

  • reverified the original finding against exact parent HEAD;
  • confirmed classification CURRENT P2;
  • inspected the complete candidate diff;
  • confirmed the repair uses an explicit non-ignorable direct-child signal;
  • confirmed no process-group/tree guarantee was introduced;
  • verified the adversarial regression discriminates baseline from candidate;
  • verified original hardening-error visibility;
  • verified eventual settlement;
  • verified no SPAWN_FAILED laundering;
  • verified no AgentExchange laundering;
  • verified no discarded internal rejection;
  • verified no double settlement;
  • verified fallback failure containment;
  • verified exact candidate identity before and after validation.

Validation evidence:

  • focused hardening/fallback tests: PASS;
  • complete process-transport test file: PASS;
  • full required test suite: PASS;
  • typecheck: PASS;
  • lint: PASS;
  • build: PASS;
  • git diff --check: PASS.

The POSIX outcome regression was not executed locally on Windows, but is POSIX-gated and is intended to execute on Linux CI. Local validation independently verified the harness staging and signal-observation mechanism and demonstrated baseline/candidate discrimination.

Separate outstanding finding

The separate PR #25 Finding A remains OUT OF SCOPE:

parent-side regression probe missing ChildProcess error handling.

Do not combine it with this repair.

It must be reverified separately after the current repair chain is integrated and PR #25's resulting NEW HEAD is established.

Quarantine rule

This DRAFT PR is evidence/proposal only.

Do not merge merely because implementation, independent validation, CI, Codex, or CodeRabbit reports success.

Required gates before upward integration into PR #26:

Ready is NOT the merge gate.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved cleanup of child processes when graceful termination fails.
    • Fallback termination now uses a forceful kill signal to stop unresponsive processes.
    • Clarified that fallback cleanup does not wait for or guarantee termination of descendant processes.
    • Removed temporary cleanup artifacts after termination attempts.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for termination failures, signal handling, process cleanup, and prevention of lingering processes.
    • Added regression coverage for processes that ignore graceful termination signals.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The process transport now uses explicit SIGKILL for its direct-child fallback. Tests synchronize adversarial child startup, record signals, verify readiness-file cleanup, and confirm that SIGTERM-ignoring children are not abandoned.

Changes

Termination fallback hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Explicit direct-child fallback
src/adapters/process-transport.ts
The fallback sends explicit SIGKILL without waiting or claiming descendant termination.
Adversarial termination coverage
tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts
Tests synchronize child readiness, record signals, verify cleanup, and confirm that a SIGTERM-ignoring child is forcibly terminated without an abandoned PID.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6c711

The fallback now uses an explicit SIGKILL for the directly owned child, but the regression test still does not enforce the single-attempt contract it describes. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to tighten that test.

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A rabbit watched the child arise,
Then checked the signal by surprise.
SIGKILL closed the waiting door,
No stray process stayed ashore.
Readiness files were cleared from sight,
And tests confirmed the ending right.

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In `@tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts`:
- Line 1647: Update the assertion for DIRECT_CHILD_SIGNALS in the relevant
process transport test to require exactly one fallback attempt rather than
accepting any nonzero count. Preserve the existing multiline matching behavior
and verify the recorded signal count is precisely 1.
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// the fallback, and whether it was ever observed is reported rather than
// assumed.
const WAITS_FOR_CHILD = mode === 'terminate-fault-sigterm-ignored';
const READY_PATH = join(tmpdir(), 'ab-fallback-ready-' + process.pid);

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P2 Badge Clear the readiness marker before waiting

If an earlier probe is interrupted before its tail cleanup and the OS later reuses that probe's PID, this predictable path can already exist when the new probe starts. waitForChildReady() then returns true before the new child installs its SIGTERM handler, allowing the old default-SIGTERM implementation to terminate the child and falsely pass this regression. Remove the marker before spawning, or place it in a freshly created per-run directory.

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@codex Please perform a fresh review of PR #27 against exact CURRENT HEAD 6c711d2.

The prior findings were on older HEAD 7f47563 and have been repaired. Do not assume they remain current.

Review the complete current PR diff and specifically verify:

  • explicit direct-child SIGKILL fallback correctness;
  • exactly-one fallback attempt invariant;
  • readiness-marker stale-state resistance;
  • POSIX SIGTERM-ignore regression validity;
  • test false-pass resistance;
  • hostile ChildProcess accessor behavior;
  • settlement and terminal-cause precedence;
  • no discarded rejection;
  • no double settlement;
  • fallback failure containment;
  • Windows non-regression;
  • no stronger descendant/process-tree guarantee;
  • frozen AgentBridge architecture;
  • AgentBridge V1 managed-repository read-only authority;
  • no unrelated scope.

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. 👍

Reviewed commit: 6c711d27f5

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Chef's kiss.

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