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Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling waits on each probe and xctrace step with a kill -0 loop in run_output_with_timeout and wait_with_timeout. The loop slept a whole second between checks, so even an instant command like xcodebuild -version cost at least 1 s. That slows every real profiling run, and the profiling guard leg took 54 s on CI (33 s in tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh). macOS admission on PRs waits for that leg.

Both loops now poll every 0.1 s and count ticks against timeout_seconds * 10, so a timeout still never fires early. It can fire slightly late, because each tick also forks sleep; the long record timeout already has 90 s of slack. The 1 s grace between kill and kill -9 is unchanged.

The three CMUX_PROFILE_*_TIMEOUT_SECONDS overrides are now refused at startup (exit 2, like --duration) unless they are whole numbers. With the new arithmetic, a value like abc would abort the command it was meant to time; before this PR it made the timeout never fire. Nothing but the test sets them. The script ships in the app and runs under macOS /bin/bash 3.2, whose external sleep takes fractional seconds.

The test's fake xctrace export slept 5 s on every run, but only the TOC-timeout case needs a slow export. That case now opts in with FAKE_XCTRACE_EXPORT_SECONDS=5.

Testing

  • bash tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh passes, including the TOC-timeout and hung-system_profiler cases that exercise both timeout paths, a 1 s export that outlives several polls and then succeeds, and rejection of abc, 1.5 and 5s for each timeout override.
  • An independent review also ran the test under bash 3.2.57 (the macOS /bin/bash version) in a container: it passes.
  • Timing: in paired old/new runs on the same loaded Linux host it went from 59 s to 29 s and from 50 s to 27 s. At that load sleep 0.1 really takes about 0.24 s, so CI should gain more.
  • shellcheck -S warning is clean.
  • Not run on macOS. The only macOS-specific assumption is fractional sleep, which BSD sleep supports.

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Speeds up the profiling guard leg in CI by polling child processes every 0.1 s instead of every second in Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling, cutting profiling test runtime roughly in half.

  • Polls in tenths of a second and counts ticks so timeouts still never fire early.
  • Keeps the existing 1 s grace between kill and kill -9.
  • Refuses non-integer CMUX_PROFILE_*_TIMEOUT_SECONDS at startup (exit 2), since the new arithmetic would abort the command it meant to time.
  • The test's fake xctrace export sleeps only when asked via FAKE_XCTRACE_EXPORT_SECONDS.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Profiling now reports an error when timeout settings are not whole numbers of seconds, rather than failing unpredictably.
    • Timeout checks respond more quickly, and quick checks no longer incur an unnecessary delay.

start-cmux-profiling waits on each probe and xctrace step with a
kill -0 loop that slept a whole second per check, so even an instant
command like xcodebuild -version cost at least 1 s. Poll in tenths of a
second instead, counting ticks so a timeout still never fires early.
The 1 s grace between kill and kill -9 is unchanged. The script ships in
the app and runs under macOS /bin/bash 3.2, whose external sleep takes
fractional seconds.

The test's fake xctrace export also slept 5 s on every run, though
only the TOC-timeout case needs a slow export. That case now asks for
it.

In paired local runs under the same machine load, the profiling guard
test went from 59 s to 29 s and from 50 s to 27 s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The profiling script validates its three timeout settings as whole numbers. Both timeout helpers now poll every 0.1 seconds. Tests cover invalid timeout values and configurable fake export delays.

Changes

Profiling timeouts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate timeout settings
Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling, tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh
The script rejects configured timeout values that are not whole numbers with exit code 2. Tests check invalid values across all three timeout settings.
Poll timed processes at 0.1-second intervals
Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling, tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh
Both timeout helpers use 0.1-second polling. The fake xcrun export delay is configurable, and tests use it to exercise timeout and display-probe cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 80d95

An unusually large profiling timeout can end an export immediately instead of allowing it to run. This is a bounded configuration risk to fix or explicitly accept before merging.


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Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ❌ Error The new production error exposes internal environment-variable names: start-cmux-profiling: $timeout_var must be a whole number of seconds in Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling:159-162. The app ex… Replace the variable-specific text in the production stderr path with a generic message such as start-cmux-profiling: profiling timeout must be a whole number of seconds. Keep variable-specific details only in tests or sanitized internal …
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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only profiling timeout validation, polling, and profiling test fixtures. The diff introduces no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui client or transport, manual renderer, P…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The pull request changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files, Swift declarations, or actor-isolation anno…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The pull-request diff changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. It contains no Swift file changes. Therefore, the custom check for blocking or t…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The pull request changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. The diff contains no browser socket commands, WebKit/AppKit access, worker routing, or poli…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. It contains no Swift files or added expensive agent-history loads. The Swift…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh, both shell scripts. It contains no production Swift, TypeScript, o…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The production sleep 0.1 calls are inside the dedicated run_output_with_timeout and wait_with_timeout helpers. They poll a child process with kill -0, enforce a configured bounded timeou…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff changes scalar child-process timeout polling from one-second sleeps to bounded 0.1-second ticks in run_output_with_timeout and wait_with_timeout. It does not add nested s…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The PR changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. The authoritative diff contains no .swift files and no Swift concurrency code. Therefore, the custo…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. It contains no Swift files or Swift code, so the @concurrent check is not applicabl…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The pull-request range changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. It contains no Swift, SwiftPM, Xcode project, or workspace changes. The Swift package…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. The diff contains no SwiftPM package, Package.swift, Package.resolved, Xcode project, `.git…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh; it adds no Swift or Objective-C runtime code. The added echo statements are CLI validation ou…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and its shell test; it adds no Swift, string-catalog, Info.plist, web, or locale files. The added timeout error is operat…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only two shell files: Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. It contains no Swift, SwiftUI, ObservableObject, @Published…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only two shell scripts: Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. The diff contains no Swift or Swift UI/AppKit architecture changes. Therefor…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The reviewed range changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. It contains no Swift changes and does not add or modify cmux-owned windows. The auxiliary…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The PR changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. Both are intentional hand-written source and test scripts. The diff adds timeout logic, validation, a…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The authoritative PR diff changes only Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling and tests/test_start_cmux_profiling.sh. It contains no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so this custom check…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: profiling child-process polling now runs every 0.1 seconds instead of every second.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the problem, implementation, timeout validation, test coverage, performance results, and macOS testing limitation. It omits the template's Demo Video section and uses …
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Explanation

The new production error exposes internal environment-variable names: start-cmux-profiling: $timeout_var must be a whole number of seconds in Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling:159-162. The app exposes a concrete end-user path: the Start Profiling menu action launches this bundled script, captures stderr, and appends it to the Profiling failed status label in MenuBarProfilingProgressWindowController. The names CMUX_PROFILE_SYSTEM_PROFILER_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, CMUX_PROFILE_TOOL_VERSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, and CMUX_PROFILE_TOC_TIMEOUT_SECONDS are therefore user-facing configuration details. The base revision did not emit this message.

Resolution

Replace the variable-specific text in the production stderr path with a generic message such as start-cmux-profiling: profiling timeout must be a whole number of seconds. Keep variable-specific details only in tests or sanitized internal diagnostics that are not forwarded to the profiling failure UI.

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The timeout helpers now do arithmetic on the timeout, so a value like
abc or 1.5 in CMUX_PROFILE_*_TIMEOUT_SECONDS would abort the command it
was meant to time; with a bad TOC timeout that abandoned the remaining
templates silently. Before this branch such a value made the timeout
never fire. Reject it at startup with exit 2, as --duration already
is, and read the value as decimal so 010 stays ten seconds.

The display-failed case now takes a 1 s export, so a child that
outlives several polls and then succeeds is still covered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# The timeout helpers do arithmetic on these; a non-integer would abort the
# surrounding command instead of timing it out.
for timeout_var in CMUX_PROFILE_SYSTEM_PROFILER_TIMEOUT_SECONDS CMUX_PROFILE_TOOL_VERSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS CMUX_PROFILE_TOC_TIMEOUT_SECONDS; do
if [ -n "${!timeout_var:-}" ] && ! [[ "${!timeout_var}" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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sed -n '245,295p' Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling
sed -n '650,710p' Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling
rg -n 'TOC_TIMEOUT_SECONDS|wait_with_timeout|run_output_with_timeout' Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling

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#!/bin/bash
set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- script entry and export path ---'
sed -n '1,12p' Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling
sed -n '705,730p' Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling
printf '%s\n' '--- Bash arithmetic behavior ---'
bash --version | head -n 1
bash -c '
v=922337203685477581
printf "regex=%s\n" "$([[ "$v" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && echo yes || echo no)"
limit=$((10#$v * 10))
printf "value=%s limit=%s comparison=%s\n" "$v" "$limit" "$((0 >= limit))"
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Reject timeout values that overflow the tick limit.

CMUX_PROFILE_TOC_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=922337203685477581 passes the digit check. On 64-bit Bash, multiplying it by ten produces -9223372036854775806. wait_with_timeout then terminates a running export at its first check. Reject values above 922337203685477580 before the helpers perform tick arithmetic.

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In `@Resources/bin/start-cmux-profiling` at line 160, Update the timeout
validation around timeout_var to reject numeric values above 922337203685477580
before they reach wait_with_timeout or other tick arithmetic, while preserving
acceptance of valid nonnegative integer values.

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teamleaderleo merged commit bcca243 into main Sep 24, 2026
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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2026
ff6c6dc ci: stop restoring an iOS GhosttyKit cache nothing saves (manaflow-ai#14189)
2827231 ci: seed DerivedData on the 12 vCPU macOS 26 pool (manaflow-ai#14188)
ae46aa9 Let Computer Use toggles save past unrelated cmux.json issues (manaflow-ai#14183)
a785270 test: fail loudly when portal rendering authority denies a fixture's tab id (manaflow-ai#13937)
9a1dea0 test: pin which terminal tabs get an agent mark after manaflow-ai#14062 (manaflow-ai#14177)
91bcb28 test: run the change-area tests in parallel workers (manaflow-ai#14193)
6d203e8 test: await the geometry publish in the equalize-splits shortcut case (manaflow-ai#13916)
48f1adf ci: balance the guard legs the macOS gate waits on (manaflow-ai#14186)
38117cd test: settle the split's reparent-focus suppression before focus feedback (manaflow-ai#14049)
a12a0b8 ci: neutralize Swift sources without a per-character loop (manaflow-ai#14169)
2b6ca4c ci: stop counting queue time on cancelled jobs as runner minutes (manaflow-ai#14187)
2837f22 test: stop gating terminal focus on key status the app host cannot grant (manaflow-ai#13948)
23c0ce2 test: give each detect-step run its own cmux-ci scratch files (manaflow-ai#14185)
a13ea28 ci: skip Mac lanes that bundled scripts and guard-only lints cannot fail (manaflow-ai#14179)
b59f34f ci: restore Swift packages and a compilation cache for iOS uploads (manaflow-ai#14180)
bcca243 profiling: poll child processes every 0.1 s instead of every second (manaflow-ai#14170)
76d6176 refactor: move 45 leaf browser files into CmuxBrowser (manaflow-ai#14092)
bf13034 test: fail the Desktop drop fast instead of restarting the app host (manaflow-ai#14076)
51d486b ci: start guards and web beside Fast static checks (manaflow-ai#14176)

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