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fix(server): Windows Git launches no longer block RPC - #32234
Fixes#25245. On Windows, synchronous native process creation inside child_process.spawn() can block the server's RPC loop during a slow Git launch. The native barrier regression reproduces this without assuming which OS or antivirus component caused a reporter's delay.
Change
Use a Windows-only worker boundary for ProcessRunner and the direct GitVcsDriverCore launch path. Each active command owns its worker; one idle worker can be reused. Transferred Web Streams retain backpressure, stdin/stdout/stderr, exit status and environment semantics. Other platforms retain their existing spawner.
Cancellation records intent even while native creation is blocked. Cleanup terminates the owned Windows process tree and waits for actual child exit before releasing its worker. The caller's cleanup wait is bounded to one second: expiration keeps the job registered and its worker referenced, unavailable for reuse and responsible for cleanup. Only the actual release can idle or stop the worker. If the pool closes first, later release stops that worker normally. A process the OS never terminates remains cleanup-owned.
The probe fixture also rejects every pending milestone on worker error or unexpected exit, observes cancellation request failures, and retains its barrier-release and shutdown cleanup.
Scope and approval
This is one server responsiveness fix under the focused reliability-fix exception. No client contracts, provider instructions or workflows change. Web, desktop and remote clients share the server service paths. Related PRs #30209 and #30238 were compared by source diff: their native-creation work is Linux-specific; this change does not depend on them.
Macroscope's human approval requirement remains pending. Native imports implement the worker boundary or its independent native test controllers; the message-origin lint exceptions apply to Node worker ports. The diagnostic exceptions retain explicit reasons and the checks remain enabled. The new one-line globalTimers exception covers the native Promise adapter timer: only the caller wait expires, while cleanup remains outside the interrupted Effect scope.
Final-source local verification on Windows with Node 26.12.1:
Original responsiveness baseline: the production ProcessRunner probe returned serverThread=true / gateClosed=false before the worker boundary, instead of false / true. The controller releases the native gate to recover the baseline without a performance threshold.
Review-fix baseline at fec5770 with the extended fixtures: normal tree cleanup passed; held taskkill and failed fallback left Effect interruption pending after advancing the cleanup clock. A probe worker failure before disposing stranded cancellation until the existing project test ceiling and produced an unhandled socket reset. No test timeout, sleep, retry or new platform skip was added.
The final four-file Windows selection includes the two process regression files, processRunner.test.ts and process/windowsProcessWorker.test.ts: 19/19 passed. Covers real concurrent streams, backpressure, environment inheritance/replacement/removal, missing executables, creation cancellation, worker error/exit at both cancellation milestones, retained live-child ownership, separate workers while cleanup is pending, actual descendant termination, late reuse and pool closure.
Fresh isolated production CLI/RPC E2E with a temporary Git repository and home, using the real server and native creation gate: passed, and the captured server exited normally. All five production module hashes match this source. The worker module SHA-256 is bf0350afc93355775e4ef11a25e94d7044357b9f627aafb639cdeff01cc4e793. Safe transcript:
Native creation blocked: serverThread=false
server.probe: Success while the creation gate remained closed
Release gate -> vcs.refreshStatus: Success
Captured server stopped normally
No live userdata, paid provider turns or client origin overrides were used. Packaged Electron was not separately exercised.
vp run check:changed --concurrency 1 was attempted for the 10-file scope, but stalled before stages in the known Windows ignored-input/junction scan (perf(scripts): check:changed on Windows no longer spends minutes walking node_modules (2,500 s → 5.0 s) #32023). Only the retained process tree was stopped. All selected static equivalents passed: format, lint, both Knip scans, server GraphQL generation, and all three affected package typechecks (server, scripts and evals). Exact commands and logs are preserved; no cache or check configuration was changed. Heavy stages ran serially with RAYON_NUM_THREADS=1 and supported KNIP_DISABLE_RAW_TRANSFER=1.
Full selected Windows run: 247 passed, 8 failed, 4 existing platform skips; all failures are the same unchanged Git fixture cases. The eight unchanged Git fixture failures were previously reproduced on unchanged b90e554: five shell-only fake-SSH cases, a Windows-invalid filename, a trailing-space directory and a separator-dependent assertion. Their tests and assertions remain intact.
Fresh independent Linux container, official node:26.12.1-bookworm, owning-package dependencies installed from the frozen lockfile, with source/test/lock/config hashes verified: 248 passed, 11 Windows-only cases skipped; all 238 Git cases passed; the new container was stopped after verification. Command: vp test run --maxWorkers=1 --passWithNoTests src/processRunner.test.ts src/process/windowsProcessWorker.test.ts src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts src/provider/AgentContextBudget.test.ts. This run verifies the new source; the earlier 13-test Windows and 248-test Linux reports belong to fec5770.
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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Windows process launches move into workers to keep RPC responsive. The new file-level lint and Effect diagnostic suppressions require human review to confirm their scope and justification.
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Walkthrough
Adds a Windows process-worker pool and routes process and Git spawning through it when the Windows-specific service is available. Windows-only tests cover process creation, cancellation, streams, and cleanup.
Changes: Windows process spawning
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Summary
Worker pool and child lifecycle apps/server/src/process/windowsProcessWorker.ts, apps/server/src/process/windowsProcessWorker.test.ts, apps/server/src/process/processCleanup.test-fixture.ts
Adds a worker pool that spawns child processes, transfers streams, cleans up process trees, and reuses workers. Windows-only tests cover environment options, concurrent I/O, spawn errors, and descendant cleanup.
Windows spawn service apps/server/src/process/WindowsSpawn.ts
Adds a Windows-specific spawn service that starts pooled jobs, maps spawn errors, exposes streams and exit status, and disposes jobs with the layer scope.
Process and Git spawn routing apps/server/src/processRunner.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts
ProcessRunner and Git VCS commands use the Windows spawn function when available and otherwise use the existing spawner. The server provides the Windows spawn layer with its platform services.
Adds a worker fixture and probe for blocked process creation, server responsiveness, and cancellation. Windows-only ProcessRunner tests exercise these scenarios.
sequenceDiagram
participant ProcessRunner
participant GitVcsDriverCore
participant WindowsSpawn
participant windowsProcessWorker
participant ChildProcess
ProcessRunner->>WindowsSpawn: Select Windows spawn function when available
GitVcsDriverCore->>WindowsSpawn: Select Windows spawn function when available
WindowsSpawn->>windowsProcessWorker: Start pooled job
windowsProcessWorker->>ChildProcess: Spawn command with options
ChildProcess-->>windowsProcessWorker: Return streams and exit status
windowsProcessWorker-->>WindowsSpawn: Transfer streams and exit status
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Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#31422 — Reports Git process creation blocking the server event loop on Linux. This change retains the existing spawner on Linux and targets Windows process creation.
Suggested reviewers:maria-rcks
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to df3b2
This change moves Windows process and Git launches onto worker threads so the server's RPC loop is no longer blocked during process creation. The previously reported cleanup-hang and fixture-hang concerns were addressed. No concrete merge-blocking issue remains after review.
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[#25245] WindowsSpawn moves process creation off the server event loop for ProcessRunner and GitVcsDriverCore. Other platforms retain the existing spawner. Windows regression tests cover responsivenes…
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[#25245] The worker pool, server wiring, cleanup changes, and regression fixtures support Windows Git-launch responsiveness and safe process lifecycle handling. The summarized changes show no unrelate…
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[#25245] WindowsSpawn moves process creation off the server event loop for ProcessRunner and GitVcsDriverCore. Other platforms retain the existing spawner. Windows regression tests cover responsiveness during blocked creation, cancellation, streams, and cleanup. The follow-up bounds the caller's cleanup wait while retaining ownership until release, and handles fixture-worker failures.
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[#25245] The worker pool, server wiring, cleanup changes, and regression fixtures support Windows Git-launch responsiveness and safe process lifecycle handling. The summarized changes show no unrelated work.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/process/processCreationProbe.ts:
- Around line 64-69: Update the cancellation flow around disposing.promise and
childExited.promise so unexpected fixture-worker errors or exits reject any
pending milestone waits and surface the failure instead of stalling. Preserve
normal shutdown behavior and ensure release() and the existing cancellation
cleanup still run.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/process/windowsProcessWorker.ts:
- Around line 40-51: Bound the cleanup wait in dispose so a failed taskkill or
an unresponsive child cannot leave the caller waiting indefinitely. If the bound
expires while the child is still alive, keep it under cleanup ownership and
ensure its worker is not returned to the idle pool; preserve the existing wait
for normal child exit.
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The two cancellation findings are fixed in df3b2c4, and the subsequent production Git-layer concern was withdrawn after checking the server composition. All inline threads are resolved; current checks show 22 successful and 8 skipped. Final-source verification includes 19 Windows process regressions, the isolated Windows CLI/WebSocket Git-responsiveness E2E, and 248 Linux tests. Eight Windows Git-fixture failures reproduce on the unchanged baseline and are documented in the PR.
Could a maintainer review the scope and justification of the native worker lint/Effect diagnostic exceptions flagged by Macroscope? That human approval remains outstanding; the passing checks and technical reviews do not substitute for it.
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Problem
Fixes #25245. On Windows, synchronous native process creation inside child_process.spawn() can block the server's RPC loop during a slow Git launch. The native barrier regression reproduces this without assuming which OS or antivirus component caused a reporter's delay.
Change
Use a Windows-only worker boundary for ProcessRunner and the direct GitVcsDriverCore launch path. Each active command owns its worker; one idle worker can be reused. Transferred Web Streams retain backpressure, stdin/stdout/stderr, exit status and environment semantics. Other platforms retain their existing spawner.
Cancellation records intent even while native creation is blocked. Cleanup terminates the owned Windows process tree and waits for actual child exit before releasing its worker. The caller's cleanup wait is bounded to one second: expiration keeps the job registered and its worker referenced, unavailable for reuse and responsible for cleanup. Only the actual release can idle or stop the worker. If the pool closes first, later release stops that worker normally. A process the OS never terminates remains cleanup-owned.
The probe fixture also rejects every pending milestone on worker error or unexpected exit, observes cancellation request failures, and retains its barrier-release and shutdown cleanup.
Scope and approval
This is one server responsiveness fix under the focused reliability-fix exception. No client contracts, provider instructions or workflows change. Web, desktop and remote clients share the server service paths. Related PRs #30209 and #30238 were compared by source diff: their native-creation work is Linux-specific; this change does not depend on them.
Macroscope's human approval requirement remains pending. Native imports implement the worker boundary or its independent native test controllers; the message-origin lint exceptions apply to Node worker ports. The diagnostic exceptions retain explicit reasons and the checks remain enabled. The new one-line globalTimers exception covers the native Promise adapter timer: only the caller wait expires, while cleanup remains outside the interrupted Effect scope.
Verification
Validated source:
df3b2c4469af04dabac3f8a174c5c5f0bf10e896.Final-source local verification on Windows with Node 26.12.1:
Original responsiveness baseline: the production ProcessRunner probe returned serverThread=true / gateClosed=false before the worker boundary, instead of false / true. The controller releases the native gate to recover the baseline without a performance threshold.
Review-fix baseline at fec5770 with the extended fixtures: normal tree cleanup passed; held taskkill and failed fallback left Effect interruption pending after advancing the cleanup clock. A probe worker failure before disposing stranded cancellation until the existing project test ceiling and produced an unhandled socket reset. No test timeout, sleep, retry or new platform skip was added.
The final four-file Windows selection includes the two process regression files, processRunner.test.ts and process/windowsProcessWorker.test.ts: 19/19 passed. Covers real concurrent streams, backpressure, environment inheritance/replacement/removal, missing executables, creation cancellation, worker error/exit at both cancellation milestones, retained live-child ownership, separate workers while cleanup is pending, actual descendant termination, late reuse and pool closure.
Fresh isolated production CLI/RPC E2E with a temporary Git repository and home, using the real server and native creation gate: passed, and the captured server exited normally. All five production module hashes match this source. The worker module SHA-256 is
bf0350afc93355775e4ef11a25e94d7044357b9f627aafb639cdeff01cc4e793. Safe transcript:No live userdata, paid provider turns or client origin overrides were used. Packaged Electron was not separately exercised.
vp run check:changed --concurrency 1was attempted for the 10-file scope, but stalled before stages in the known Windows ignored-input/junction scan (perf(scripts): check:changed on Windows no longer spends minutes walking node_modules (2,500 s → 5.0 s) #32023). Only the retained process tree was stopped. All selected static equivalents passed: format, lint, both Knip scans, server GraphQL generation, and all three affected package typechecks (server, scripts and evals). Exact commands and logs are preserved; no cache or check configuration was changed. Heavy stages ran serially with RAYON_NUM_THREADS=1 and supported KNIP_DISABLE_RAW_TRANSFER=1.Full selected Windows run: 247 passed, 8 failed, 4 existing platform skips; all failures are the same unchanged Git fixture cases. The eight unchanged Git fixture failures were previously reproduced on unchanged b90e554: five shell-only fake-SSH cases, a Windows-invalid filename, a trailing-space directory and a separator-dependent assertion. Their tests and assertions remain intact.
Fresh independent Linux container, official node:26.12.1-bookworm, owning-package dependencies installed from the frozen lockfile, with source/test/lock/config hashes verified: 248 passed, 11 Windows-only cases skipped; all 238 Git cases passed; the new container was stopped after verification. Command:
vp test run --maxWorkers=1 --passWithNoTests src/processRunner.test.ts src/process/windowsProcessWorker.test.ts src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.test.ts src/provider/AgentContextBudget.test.ts. This run verifies the new source; the earlier 13-test Windows and 248-test Linux reports belong to fec5770.Implemented with OpenAI GPT-6 via the Codex harness.