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PR 025 Finding A: Handle probe child spawn errors - #28

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PR 025 Finding A: Handle probe child spawn errors#28
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Stacked validation PR for:

PR025-CR-FINDING-A-PROBE-CHILD-ERROR-UNHANDLED

This PR is intentionally narrow and quarantined.

It targets protected parent PR #25.

It does NOT target main.

It does NOT directly target protected PR #10.

Finding

Classification:

CURRENT P3

The PR #25 hardening-settlement regression probe created a ChildProcess without
an error listener.

A real asynchronous spawn failure could therefore emit an unhandled
ChildProcess error event, terminate or destabilize the Vitest worker, and
destroy attributable regression evidence.

Fresh independent validation also proved that EMFILE/ENFILE-class spawn
failures can leave stdout / stderr absent before the asynchronous error
event arrives. The bounded repair therefore also tolerates absent stdio handles
so the real spawn failure reaches the probe evidence path instead of becoming a
misleading TypeError.

Repair

The bounded repair changes only:

tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts

Inside runHardeningSettlementProbe() it:

  • registers a ChildProcess error listener before stream listener setup;
  • converts spawn failure into normal ProbeResult evidence;
  • preserves the existing result shape;
  • records attributable PROBE_SPAWN_ERROR evidence;
  • settles with code: null;
  • tolerates absent stdout/stderr handles;
  • preserves ordinary close-path behavior;
  • preserves existing stdout/stderr capture when streams exist;
  • prevents an error→close sequence from changing the first reported result.

Three focused regressions prove:

  • a child that never spawns no longer kills the worker;
  • error is followed by close;
  • a spawn failure with no stdio handles still resolves attributable evidence.

No production code changes.

Exact quarantine identity

Protected parent PR #25 HEAD:

0ced0efc42cf9a36d25d51b75830dd2c160d6aa5

Repair commit:

01fd9e52bc84cafce80bbfa4972c0182544dbfee

Validated patch SHA-256:

9B4BF9DC56AFFD1631E1D34F5952F835D13886A134E08FC90E98A6A743A9CDDA

Patch bytes:

10787

Changed file exactly:

tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts

The committed patch was mechanically verified byte-for-byte identical to the
fresh independently validated candidate.

Independent validation

Fresh independent validation result:

PASS

The validator independently:

  • reproduced the original unhandled ChildProcess error defect;
  • verified the exact patch fingerprint;
  • audited the complete diff;
  • verified ENOENT handling;
  • verified genuine EMFILE/ENFILE undefined-stdio behavior;
  • verified null-stdio behavior;
  • verified the new test seams are bounded;
  • proved the regressions are load-bearing with counterfactuals;
  • ran focused regressions;
  • ran the complete process-transport test file;
  • ran the full test suite;
  • ran typecheck;
  • ran lint;
  • ran build;
  • ran git diff --check;
  • re-fingerprinted the candidate with no drift.

Validation evidence

Focused regressions:

PASS

Complete tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts:

142 passed, 9 skipped

Full suite:

1177 passed, 9 skipped

Typecheck:

PASS

Lint:

PASS

Build:

PASS

git diff --check:

PASS

The 9 skipped tests are POSIX-gated tests on the Windows validation host.
No Windows result is claimed as proof of POSIX runtime behavior.

Out-of-scope inherited findings

The following remain separately tracked and are NOT repaired by this PR:

AUDIT-PR025-ABSORBER-LOST-ON-PARTIAL-LISTENER-CLEAR

AUDIT-PR026-TEMPDIR-SILENT-LEAK

They must remain in separate bounded quarantine tracks.

Protected invariants

This repair preserves:

  • PR PR 010 F1: Settle post-hardening failures safely #25 original hardening-settlement repair;
  • original hardening error visibility;
  • eventual settlement;
  • no SPAWN_FAILED laundering;
  • no AgentExchange laundering;
  • no discarded production rejection;
  • PR PR 025 Finding B: Bound fallback child termination #26 direct-child fallback repair;
  • explicit SIGKILL fallback;
  • exact-one direct-child fallback evidence;
  • stale readiness-marker protection;
  • Windows/POSIX qualification;
  • process ownership claims;
  • dormant/unwired process transport;
  • frozen AgentBridge architecture;
  • AgentBridge V1 managed-repository read-only authority.

Quarantine rule

This DRAFT PR is evidence/proposal only.

Do not merge it because the implementation agent or validator reported success.

Required before upward integration into PR #25:

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reliability when running hardening-settlement probes.
    • Probe failures are now captured safely, including missing executables, spawn errors, and absent output streams.
    • Prevented duplicate result handling when errors and close events occur together.
    • Added support for configurable interpreter and standard I/O settings.
    • Ensured failures do not crash the test worker or overwrite earlier results.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for asynchronous and adversarial probe failure scenarios.

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📝 Walkthrough

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The hardening-settlement probe runner now supports configurable interpreter and stdio settings. It captures asynchronous spawn failures, handles missing streams, and settles on the first error or close event. New tests cover error ordering and absent stdio handles.

Changes

Process probe hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configurable probe settlement
tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts
The probe runner accepts configurable process settings, handles absent stdout and stderr streams, records spawn errors, and preserves the first settlement event.
Adversarial spawn coverage
tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts
Tests cover nonexistent executables, error before close, and spawn failures without stdio handles.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a65eb

This localized test-only change adds handling for probe child-process spawn failures while preserving existing behavior, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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A rabbit watched the probe run,

Then caught the error before close.
With missing streams and paths unseen,
The first result stayed serene.
“The worker lives!” the rabbit knows.

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Focus on the bounded Finding A repair only:

PR025-CR-FINDING-A-PROBE-CHILD-ERROR-UNHANDLED

Please review:

  • ChildProcess asynchronous error handling;
  • ENOENT behavior;
  • EMFILE/ENFILE absent-stdio behavior;
  • error→close ordering;
  • ProbeResult attribution;
  • false-pass resistance;
  • test-seam safety;
  • scope containment;
  • regression risk to the existing hardening-settlement probe.

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In `@tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts`:
- Around line 1751-1753: Replace the shared fixed missing executable path in
runHardeningSettlementProbe with an isolated temporary directory and an
uncreated child path at tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts lines
1751-1753, and apply the same separate per-test setup for the event-order test
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Review exact CURRENT HEAD:

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Focus on the full PR #28 delta from base:

0ced0ef

through current head:

e5053ab

Verify specifically:

  • ChildProcess asynchronous error handling;
  • ENOENT behavior;
  • EMFILE/ENFILE absent-stdio handling;
  • error -> close ordering;
  • ProbeResult attribution;
  • false-pass resistance;
  • test-seam safety;
  • per-test missing-path isolation;
  • predictable temp-path collision closure;
  • scope containment;
  • regression risk to existing hardening-settlement tests.

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* a file — executable or not — where this spawn looks.
*/
it('settles a probe whose child never spawns instead of killing the worker', async () => {
const absent = join(makeTempDirectory(), 'absent-node-binary');

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P2 Badge Remove the per-test missing-path directories

Each of the three new spawn-failure tests calls makeTempDirectory() inline to construct absent, but none retains or passes that directory to removeTempDirectory; the helper is a raw mkdtempSync with no cleanup registry. Consequently every suite execution leaves three agentbridge-pr010-* directories under the system temp directory, and repeated local or CI runs accumulate them even when all tests pass. Keep the parent path and remove it in a finally block in all three tests.

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In `@tests/adapters/process-transport.test.ts`:
- Around line 1753-1754: Update the tests around runHardeningSettlementProbe to
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Review exact CURRENT HEAD:

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Review the full PR #28 delta from:

0ced0ef

through:

a65eb50

Verify specifically:

  • ChildProcess asynchronous error handling;
  • ENOENT behavior;
  • EMFILE/ENFILE absent-stdio handling;
  • error -> close ordering;
  • ProbeResult attribution;
  • false-pass resistance;
  • test-seam safety;
  • unique missing-path construction;
  • cleanup of the three PR PR 025 Finding A: Handle probe child spawn errors #28-owned temp parents;
  • success-path cleanup;
  • failure-path cleanup;
  • zero net new tempdir footprint;
  • no regression to inherited canonical tempdir behavior;
  • scope containment;
  • regression risk to existing hardening-settlement tests.

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