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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe iOS terminal renderer now uses tokenized presentation gating for ordinary, local-scroll, and verified-replay frames. It synchronizes replay reveal with pending scrolls, handles render failures, bounds geometry retries, and delays replay requests until output queues are idle. ChangesTerminal presentation pipeline
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change alters terminal scroll presentation and replay recovery, but unresolved edge cases can still block the verified-replay reveal or briefly display stale terminal content after a failed presentation. The PR should not be treated as fully merge-ready until these bounded failure paths are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GhosttySurfaceRepresentable
participant GhosttySurfaceView
participant TerminalRenderPresentationGate
participant GhosttyKit
GhosttySurfaceRepresentable->>GhosttySurfaceView: drain pending scroll generations
GhosttySurfaceView->>TerminalRenderPresentationGate: enqueue verified replay
TerminalRenderPresentationGate->>GhosttyKit: submit tokenized frame
GhosttyKit-->>GhosttySurfaceView: completion or failure callback
GhosttySurfaceView->>TerminalRenderPresentationGate: complete, cancel, or replace token
GhosttySurfaceView-->>GhosttySurfaceRepresentable: reveal after matching presentation
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In
`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Tests/CmuxMobileShellTests/TerminalOutputDeliveryQueueTests.swift`:
- Around line 650-656: Replace the fixed three-iteration Task.yield wait in the
replay-in-flight test with a deterministic request-start signal exposed by
LivenessHostRouter. Track the mobile.terminal.replay request start and assert it
does not advance until terminalOutputDidProcess triggers the follow-up decision,
awaiting the signal or a deadline-bounded predicate rather than relying on
scheduler timing.
In
`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/GhosttySurfaceRepresentable.swift`:
- Around line 685-689: Require presentRestoredVerifiedReplayViewport() to
succeed before revealing the replay; if it fails, reject the replay and reset
the output stream using the existing reveal-failure path. Update the
needsPresentationReFence branch without discarding the method result, while
preserving the cancellation check.
In
`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView.swift`:
- Around line 2171-2182: Bound the loop in
drainPendingScrollForVerifiedReplayReveal using a new
maximumReplayRevealScrollDrainPasses constant declared alongside
maximumRenderPresentationRetries. Stop draining once the pass limit is reached
while preserving the existing flush, local-application wait, and drained-result
behavior.
- Around line 2477-2480: Remove debugEnqueueScrollForTesting from
GhosttySurfaceView and change enqueueScrollMechanicsDelta visibility from
private to internal. Update VerifiedReplayPresentationTests to call
enqueueScrollMechanicsDelta(_:touchPoint:) through `@testable` import
CmuxMobileTerminal.
- Around line 3758-3766: Update the render-promotion handling around
startRenderSubmission and both cancel(...) call sites so every
.started(nextTicket) action returned after cancellation is processed
immediately. Ensure the promoted ticket is matched with its pending submission
and started, or the render gate is reset/drained before requestRender,
preventing a promoted in-flight ticket from remaining without a payload.
In
`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView`+LocalScrollbackScroll.swift:
- Around line 36-48: Update waitForLocalScrollApplied to return false before
appending to pendingLocalScrollDrains when surface is nil or when there are no
queued local scroll lines and no batch is in flight; otherwise preserve the
existing continuation and pumpLocalScrollbackScroll flow.
In
`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView`+RenderRecovery.swift:
- Around line 121-126: Introduce a resetTokenizedRenderState() helper containing
the complete tokenized render-state clear sequence, then replace the duplicated
field assignments in pauseRenderPipelineRecovery, recoverRenderPipeline,
resumeRendering, and prepareForReuseAfterDetach with calls to that helper.
In
`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Tests/CmuxMobileTerminalTests/TerminalRenderPresentationGateTests.swift`:
- Line 45: Explicitly discard the return value of
TerminalRenderPresentationGate.setSuppressed(true) in the affected test, while
leaving the existing result-consuming call unchanged.
- Around line 56-97: Add a test alongside failedFrameDoesNotStarveOutput and
geometryReplacementStartsImmediately covering
TerminalRenderPresentationGate.queue(_:): enqueue an ordinary in-flight
submission, then a verifiedReplay, followed by a newer ordinary submission;
assert the replay remains pending and starts when the in-flight submission
completes.
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Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+TerminalOutputDelivery.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Tests/CmuxMobileShellTests/TerminalOutputDeliveryQueueTests.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/GhosttySurfaceRepresentable.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceBridge.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView+LocalScrollbackScroll.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView+RenderRecovery.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView+VerifiedReplay.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView+VerifiedReplaySubmission.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/PendingVerifiedReplayPresentation.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/TerminalRenderPresentationGate.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Tests/CmuxMobileTerminalTests/TerminalRenderPresentationGateTests.swiftPackages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Tests/CmuxMobileTerminalTests/VerifiedReplayPresentationTests.swiftghostty
| renderInFlight = false | ||
| renderInFlightSince = nil | ||
| needsAnotherRender = false | ||
| renderPresentationGate.reset() | ||
| renderSubmission = nil | ||
| pendingRenderSubmission = nil |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Extract the tokenized render reset into one helper.
The same clear sequence now appears at four sites: pauseRenderPipelineRecovery (lines 121-126), recoverRenderPipeline (lines 244-252), resumeRendering (GhosttySurfaceView.swift lines 953-958), and prepareForReuseAfterDetach (GhosttySurfaceView.swift lines 3057-3063). Each site must clear renderInFlight, renderInFlightSince, needsAnotherRender, the gate, renderSubmission, and pendingRenderSubmission together. A future site that forgets one field leaves the gate and the view disagreeing about the in-flight frame.
Add one resetTokenizedRenderState() helper and call it from every site.
♻️ Proposed refactor
// GhosttySurfaceView.swift
func resetTokenizedRenderState() {
renderInFlight = false
renderInFlightSince = nil
needsAnotherRender = false
renderPresentationGate.reset()
renderSubmission = nil
pendingRenderSubmission = nil
}- renderInFlight = false
- renderInFlightSince = nil
- needsAnotherRender = false
- renderPresentationGate.reset()
- renderSubmission = nil
- pendingRenderSubmission = nil
+ resetTokenizedRenderState()
needsDraw = falseAlso applies to: 244-252
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In
`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView`+RenderRecovery.swift
around lines 121 - 126, Introduce a resetTokenizedRenderState() helper
containing the complete tokenized render-state clear sequence, then replace the
duplicated field assignments in pauseRenderPipelineRecovery,
recoverRenderPipeline, resumeRendering, and prepareForReuseAfterDetach with
calls to that helper.
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…-refresh # Conflicts: # Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/GhosttySurfaceRepresentable.swift # Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView+LocalScrollbackScroll.swift # Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView.swift # Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Tests/CmuxMobileTerminalTests/VerifiedReplayPresentationTests.swift
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This reverts commit 474d0e7.
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| } | ||
| guard !outputStartReady else { return true } | ||
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| outputStartViewportTimeouts += 1 | ||
| surfaceView?.retryViewportReport() | ||
| surfaceView?.requestViewportReportForMount( | ||
| invalidatingPendingReports: false | ||
| ) | ||
| MobileDebugLog.anchormux( | ||
| "terminal.output.start_viewport_timeout surface=\(surfaceID) " | ||
| + "attempt=\(outputStartViewportTimeouts)/\(Self.maximumOutputStartViewportTimeouts)" | ||
| ) | ||
| guard outputStartViewportTimeouts < Self.maximumOutputStartViewportTimeouts else { | ||
| outputConsumerRestartBlocked = true | ||
| outputStartContinuation?.finish() | ||
| outputStartContinuation = nil | ||
| // The output task is currently waiting in this method, so | ||
| // its sibling font and viewport consumers would otherwise | ||
| // survive the permanent recovery latch until detach. | ||
| stopMountedTasks() | ||
| if let surfaceView { | ||
| ghosttySurfaceViewDidExhaustOutputConsumerRecovery(surfaceView) | ||
| } | ||
| MobileDebugLog.anchormux( | ||
| "terminal.output.start_viewport_blocked surface=\(surfaceID)" | ||
| ) | ||
| return false | ||
| } |
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When the first resize report is delayed beyond the three one-second waits or is rejected by the attachment, scheduler, or report-generation checks, waitForOutputStart marks restart as blocked and stops the mounted tasks. A valid terminal therefore loses its output consumer and enters recovery even when authoritative viewport readiness arrives shortly afterward.
Rule Used: Flag new blocking or timing-based synchronization ... (source)
Knowledge Base Used: iOS Packages: Companion App and Mac Pairing
| do { | ||
| try await clock.sleep( | ||
| for: Self.terminalReplayViewportTransitionWatchdogTimeout, | ||
| tolerance: nil | ||
| ) | ||
| } catch { | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| guard !Task.isCancelled, | ||
| let self, | ||
| self.terminalReplayBarrierWatchdogIDsBySurfaceID[surfaceID] | ||
| == watchdogID, | ||
| self.terminalReplayBarrierTokensBySurfaceID[surfaceID] == token else { | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| MobileDebugLog.anchormux( | ||
| "terminal.output.replay_barrier_viewport_transition_retry surface=\(surfaceID)" | ||
| ) | ||
| guard let retryToken = self.prepareTerminalReplayFailureRetry( | ||
| surfaceID: surfaceID, | ||
| replayBarrierToken: token | ||
| ) else { | ||
| // The retry helper fail-opens the barrier when this bounded | ||
| // viewport-transition episode has exhausted its budget. | ||
| return |
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When a viewport transition lasts beyond the watchdog's bounded retry budget, elapsed time alone drives prepareTerminalReplayFailureRetry to fail open the barrier without receiving the authoritative full grid. Live output then resumes against the old geometry, exposing stale or inconsistent terminal pixels until a later full frame repairs the baseline.
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| requestID: UUID, | ||
| replayBarrierToken: UUID? | ||
| ) { | ||
| cancelTerminalReplayBarrierWatchdog(surfaceID: surfaceID) |
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When an admitted terminal replay RPC stalls without returning a full grid or error, markTerminalReplayInFlight cancels the barrier's only recovery watchdog while leaving the replay barrier active, causing subsequent terminal output to remain dropped indefinitely and the mounted terminal to freeze.
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| try await clock.sleep( | ||
| for: Self.outputStartViewportTimeout, | ||
| tolerance: nil | ||
| ) |
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When a valid viewport report takes longer than the three fixed one-second waits, waitForOutputStart sets outputConsumerRestartBlocked and stops every mounted consumer without receiving an authoritative rejection, leaving the recoverable terminal frozen behind the recovery latch.
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Fixes intermittent iOS terminal freezes across rendering, replay, scrolling, stream lifetime, and lifecycle recovery.
The primary failure was a tokened Ghostty frame discarded after geometry changed without notifying cmux. The occupied presentation gate then held every newer frame behind stale pixels. The fix gives every admitted frame a presented, discarded, or backend-failed outcome, replaces current-generation discards, and bounds retries.
The same audit also fixed finished output streams that could not restart, malformed chunks that killed delivery, overlapping replay, dirty frames lost during suppression, unbounded local-scroll drains, stale replay reveal, blocking prompt scroll, and stale ownership across detach or foreground recovery.
Dependency: manaflow-ai/ghostty#200
Verification:
The hosted replay UI run currently stops before testing because the remote cmux head cannot pin the unmerged Ghostty checksum. After the dependency lands, the validated pointer and checksum will be committed and that workflow rerun.