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TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests/testZZLeakCheckSuiteLeavesNoLingeringPortalTestState fails on main with "Earlier tests left N native surface free(s) in flight" when certain IME and key-routing suites run before it in the same app host (control run 36269452338, 62 suites, 4 frees in flight). This fixes the tests that leave those frees behind.

Cause

Those suites host a live TerminalSurface in a window and drop it at the end of the test (window.orderOut(nil) only). The deinit path hands the native free to the shared teardown coordinator. The surface was spawned only milliseconds earlier, so /usr/bin/login is still ignoring SIGHUP, and ghostty_surface_free waits out Ghostty's full 12 s SIGHUP grace before it sends SIGKILL. The free, and the surface's io threads, stay in flight through the next suites. Whether the SIGHUP lands inside login's ignore window is timing-dependent, which is why the failure only shows up with some selections and orderings.

In the control log the dropped surfaces from CJKIMEMarkedSelectionTests, DeadKeyCompositionRegressionTests, GhosttyCommandShiftForwardingTests and the two Korean IME suites were spawned at 13:33:46-48 and their surface closed lines appear at 13:33:58-14:00, about 12 s later and after the leak check had already run. TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests already avoids this for its own surfaces by SIGKILLing the terminal's processes and freeing synchronously in tearDown.

This is not a product change. The 12 s grace is deliberate (it leaves room for agent exit hooks), and the product frees off the main thread.

Change

  • Move the portal suite's killShellProcesses(of:) into a shared TerminalSurface test extension (cmuxTests/TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift) as killShellProcessesForTesting(), plus releaseHostedSurfaceForTesting(), which kills the shell and then calls releaseSurfaceForTesting().
  • Call it from the teardown of every hosted-terminal test in CJKIMEInputTests.swift (Korean IME return and marked-text, space release, accessibility insert text, backquote, key-equivalent, option-delete), the dead-key helper, CJKIMEMarkedSelectionTests, GhosttyCommandShiftForwardingTests and TraditionalChineseIMENumpadRegressionTests.
  • The portal suite's tearDown uses the shared helper; its behavior is unchanged.

Evidence

Focused app-host runs on the owned glaeda-std-xcode-26.6 lane, main (7e2157e5) against this head (45ea33aa), with the same selection each time:

Selection main this branch
CJKIMEMarkedSelectionTests + TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests 36285634575: 60 tests, leak check fails with 1 free in flight 36286097591: 60 tests, 0 failures
The 6 hosted-terminal suites seen in the control run + TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests 36286131947: 71 tests, leak check fails with 7 frees in flight 36286140195: 71 tests, 0 failures

Bisect runs on main: KoreanIMEMarkedTextLeakRegressionTests + KoreanIMEReturnCommitRegressionTests + portal failed with 1 free in flight (36285665653). AppDelegateShortcutRoutingTests + portal passed (36285677475). DeadKeyCompositionRegressionTests + GhosttyCommandShiftForwardingTests + portal passed once (36285654614); their frees happened to land after login had started the shell. scripts/verify-local.py and sync-test-wiring --check pass.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes the flaky TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests leak check, which failed when certain IME and key-routing suites ran before it in the same app host.

Tests that hosted a live TerminalSurface dropped it with only window.orderOut(nil), handing the native free to the shared teardown coordinator. Because the surface was spawned milliseconds earlier, /usr/bin/login was still ignoring SIGHUP, so ghostty_surface_free waited out Ghostty's full 12 s SIGHUP grace before escalating, leaving frees and io threads in flight through subsequent suites.

  • Moves the portal suite's shell-kill helper into a shared TerminalSurface test extension (TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift) with killShellProcessesForTesting() and releaseHostedSurfaceForTesting().
  • Calls releaseHostedSurfaceForTesting() in teardown of every hosted-terminal test in the IME, dead-key, command-shift, key-equivalent, and numpad suites, so the shell is SIGKILLed and the runtime freed synchronously before the test returns.
  • No product behavior changes; the 12 s SIGHUP grace remains intentional.

Written for commit 45ea33a. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Tests
    • Updated terminal and input-method test cleanup to release hosted surfaces consistently before windows are closed. Teardown also handles related shell processes, helping keep test runs isolated and reducing interference between tests. These changes affect automated test behavior only; no user-facing functionality has changed.

Several IME and key-routing suites host a live TerminalSurface in a
window and drop it when the test ends. The deinit path hands the native
free to the shared teardown coordinator, and because the surface was
spawned only milliseconds earlier, login(1) is still ignoring SIGHUP.
ghostty_surface_free then waits out the full 12 s SIGHUP grace before it
escalates to SIGKILL, so those frees (and the surfaces' io threads) stay
in flight through whatever runs next in the app host. When
TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests follows them, its leak check reports
"Earlier tests left N native surface free(s) in flight".

Move the portal suite's shell-kill helper to a shared TerminalSurface
test extension and use it in every hosted-terminal test in the IME,
dead-key, command-shift, key-equivalent, and numpad suites: kill the
terminal's processes, then free the runtime synchronously.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Test teardown now uses shared helpers to kill eligible shell processes on a surface TTY and release hosted terminal surfaces. Multiple IME, keyboard, and lifecycle tests call the helper during cleanup.

Changes

Terminal surface teardown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared teardown helper
cmuxTests/TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift, cmuxTests/TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests+Workspace.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Adds process cleanup and hosted-surface release helpers, registers the helper in the test target, and removes the previous lifecycle-test process cleanup helper.
Hosted-terminal test cleanup
cmuxTests/CJKIMEInputTests+DeadKeyComposition.swift, cmuxTests/CJKIMEInputTests.swift, cmuxTests/CJKIMEMarkedSelectionTests.swift, cmuxTests/GhosttyCommandShiftForwardingTests.swift, cmuxTests/TerminalAndGhosttyTests.swift, cmuxTests/TraditionalChineseIMENumpadRegressionTests.swift
Updates test cleanup to release hosted surfaces before ordering out windows. Lifecycle teardown uses the shared helper for tracked surfaces.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 45ea3

Hosted-terminal tests can still incur slow teardown when PTY startup exceeds the cleanup timeout. Resolve or explicitly accept this test-suite risk before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 45ea3

The new cleanup is limited to the test bundle and does not expose process termination through the application. It affects more tests, but no production security boundary change or security finding was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The added callers expand use of process termination within the test host, but the internal methods and test-target placement do not create an externally reachable application path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The target device comes from the live surface’s PTY lifecycle rather than a caller-supplied PID. The helper excludes PID 1, itself, and its process group, but does not verify each kill result.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Release clears the runtime surface before native free and tolerates a subsequent release call. Failure to identify or terminate a process does not prevent release, so a test can still encounter the native close grace period.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main test-teardown change and the portal leak-check failure it addresses.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS — the diff only changes test teardown and Xcode test wiring. It adds TerminalSurface helpers that kill test shell processes and synchronously release hosted surfaces, then calls them from IME, …
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The diff changes only cmuxTests/*.swift plus test-project wiring. The added TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift contains @MainActor test teardown helpers, and the project file adds it to the…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only cmuxTests Swift files plus test-target project wiring. The added usleep and polling are in TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift, an explicit test-only helper, and the same…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative diff changes only terminal test teardown and Xcode test wiring. It adds TerminalSurface helpers that kill shell processes and release test surfaces, and updates IME/Ghostty/p…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only cmuxTests/*.swift plus test-target project wiring. The added synchronous work is test teardown (killShellProcessesForTesting and `releaseHostedSurfaceForTesting…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The diff changes only cmuxTests teardown helpers and test teardown calls, plus test-target Xcode project wiring. It does not replace an authoritative read with a cached or opportunistic value …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only Swift test files and Xcode project wiring. The added usleep and one-second polling loop are in cmuxTests/TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift, which is test-only …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The diff changes only cmuxTests teardown/test code and wires TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift into the cmuxTests target. Although the helper scans the TTY process list, the rule explicitl…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds synchronous, @MainActor test teardown helpers and calls them from XCTest cleanup. The only wait is a bounded usleep poll for the PTY; the diff adds no background Dispatch queue…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The Swift diff adds only synchronous @MainActor test teardown methods, killShellProcessesForTesting() and releaseHostedSurfaceForTesting(). It adds no nonisolated async work and no `@con…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only cmuxTests/*.swift plus test-target project wiring. The new TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift is included in the cmuxTests unit-test target, not the app target. The boun…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency files. The only Xcode project change registers TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift as a test source, file reference…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS — the pull request changes only cmuxTests Swift files and test-target wiring. The added code contains teardown helpers and calls, with no added print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger,…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only cmuxTests/* test teardown code and test-target project wiring. It adds test helpers and comments, with no production user-facing errors, alerts, API responses, o…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The authoritative diff changes only cmuxTests/*.swift test teardown code and test-target wiring in cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj. It adds no production UI text, localization keys, string catalogs…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed diff contains no SwiftUI changes and no new SwiftUI state or layout patterns. The added TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift imports Darwin, Foundation, and CmuxTerminal, and d…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The change is test-only. It adds one shared TerminalSurface teardown path and reuses the existing synchronous releaseSurfaceForTesting() owner. The polling and usleep occur only in cmuxTests, which th…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The diff changes only cmuxTests teardown code and test-target project wiring. It adds no standalone product window, controller, SwiftUI Window, identifier, or close-shortcut routing. The `NS…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All nine changed paths are hand-written Swift test/source files or the Xcode project configuration. The new cmuxTests/TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift is an intentional test-system helper, and its …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only cmuxTests/** files and the Xcode project file. It adds no Swift file under a production Sources/** path, so the test/debug seam rule is not applicable. The `...ForTesting…
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In @cmuxTests/TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift:
- Around line 27-32: Update the teardown path around
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Comment on lines +27 to +32
let deadline = ProcessInfo.processInfo.systemUptime + 1
while controllingTTYDeviceIdentifier == nil,
ProcessInfo.processInfo.systemUptime < deadline {
usleep(10_000)
}
guard let device = controllingTTYDeviceIdentifier else { return }

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not treat a one-second PTY startup timeout as successful cleanup.

If Ghostty has not exposed the TTY device within one second, this guard skips the process kill. releaseHostedSurfaceForTesting() then frees the live surface with its shell still running, so the native free can incur the grace-period wait this helper is meant to prevent. The structural cause is that cleanup depends on elapsed time rather than a confirmed PTY or shell lifecycle state. Make that state the source of truth. As a first migration cut, have the teardown path await a PTY-ready or shell-exit signal before deciding whether it needs to kill a process.

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In @cmuxTests/TerminalSurfaceTestTeardown.swift around lines 27 - 32, Update the
teardown path around controllingTTYDeviceIdentifier to await a confirmed
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Remove the one-second timeout path that lets cleanup return without handling a
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Merge receipt for 45ea33aa47: every check was green at merge (16 verified; 15 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
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