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The CmuxRemoteWorkspace package test process died with SIGPIPE in #15921's CI (swift-package-tests, cmux-austin-mini-1):

swiftpm-testing-helper … CmuxRemoteWorkspacePackageTests … exited with unexpected signal code 13
##[error]CmuxRemoteWorkspace failed with exit status 1 after 9s

Two writes on the relay's forwarding path had no SIGPIPE protection. The app ignores SIGPIPE process-wide only because Ghostty does so at startup; the package test process, like any other host, does not. Part of #15488.

Why it crashed

The only test still running was the policy test "relay does not learn ownership from unsolicited create responses". It had run for 5.1 s against its usual 0.08 s, so it was in the harness's final wait for the connection to close. Its teardown then overlapped a forward still in flight. Either of these writes can raise SIGPIPE there:

Standalone C checks on this Mac: a write after the socket's own shutdown, after the peer closed, or during a blocked write that shutdown interrupts, all raise SIGPIPE. With SO_NOSIGPIPE set before connecting, they return EPIPE instead. The fixture pattern ("relay gives up, fixture replies after end-of-file") raised SIGPIPE 300 of 300 times, and 0 of 300 with the option.

The stall itself isn't explained: the other relay suite's round trips completed normally during it. With this change, a future stall fails that test's assertion instead of killing every result in the package. This is the only occurrence found since #15768.

Change

  • Red tests, first commit. Both kill the test process on main; that the process survives is the assertion.
    • A policy test makes the relay refuse the fixture as a local peer, so the fixture writes into the closed socket.
    • A server test holds the relay inside a 1 MiB write to a local socket that never reads, then calls server.stop(). It lives in a new file, RemoteCLIRelayServerBlockedWriteTests.swift, because RemoteCLIRelayServerTests.swift is at its length budget; the suite's RelayTestClient, token and authenticate become internal for it.
  • Fix, second commit. The relay's local socket and the fixture's listener set SO_NOSIGPIPE. Darwin refuses the option once the peer is gone, so both set it before connecting or listening, and accepted sockets inherit it. If the option fails, the relay closes the descriptor and reports its existing "failed to create local relay socket" error, so the app's behavior is unchanged.

Evidence

CI / macos / swift-package-tests runs this package for any PR that touches it:

  • Red, test commit only (merged with main 6171d8c): job 110081696612. The test process died 3 s in, as "stopping the relay during a blocked local socket write fails the write without SIGPIPE" started:
    ◇ Test "stopping the relay during a blocked local socket write fails the write without SIGPIPE" started.
    … CmuxRemoteWorkspacePackageTests … exited with unexpected signal code 13
    ##[error]CmuxRemoteWorkspace failed with exit status 1 after 3s
    
  • Green, with the fix: d8ab24a. Pending.

No local build or test run; this Mac does not compile cmux.

Follow-ups outside this PR: the cloud CLI bridge has the same unprotected write (RemoteDaemonProxyTunnel.swift:642-713). PolicyFakeUnixSocketServer and FakeHTTPServer also keep accepting on a saved descriptor number after closing it.

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Summary by cubic

Keeps the relay's local socket writes from raising SIGPIPE and killing host processes (like the package test process) that haven't ignored the signal. Part of #15488.

  • The relay's local socket and the policy fixture's listener set SO_NOSIGPIPE, so writes to shut-down or closed sockets fail with EPIPE instead of SIGPIPE. Option failures close the descriptor and keep the relay's existing "failed to create local relay socket" error.
  • Adds two regression tests that kill the process on main: fixture replies after the relay abandons a round trip, and server.stop() interrupts a blocked 1 MiB write.
  • PolicyFakeUnixSocketServer gets a semaphore to wait for served connections; RelayTestClient, the suite token, and authenticate become internal for a new server test file.

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Written for commit d8ab24a. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Relay connections now handle socket write failures without triggering a broken-pipe signal that could interrupt the app.
  • Tests
    • Added regression coverage for relay behavior when local socket validation fails, including confirmation that the peer receives no request.
    • Added coverage for stopping a relay while a local socket is blocked writing, verifying the connection closes without triggering a broken-pipe failure.

CmuxRemoteWorkspace's package test process died with signal 13
(SIGPIPE) in #15921's CI while a relay policy test was stalled. Two
writes on the relay's forwarding path have no SIGPIPE protection, and
the package test process, unlike the app, doesn't ignore the signal.

- The policy fixture PolicyFakeUnixSocketServer replies after reading to
  end-of-file. When the relay abandons a round trip, end-of-file means
  the relay closed, so the reply lands on a closed socket. The new
  policy test makes the relay refuse the fixture as a local peer.
- The relay's own write to the local socket can be interrupted by
  Session.close() during server.stop(). The new server test holds the
  relay inside a 1 MiB write to a local socket that never reads, then
  stops the server.

Both kill the test process on main; that the process survives is the
assertion. RelayTestClient, the suite's token and authenticate
become internal so the new server test can live in its own file.

Refs #15488

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The relay sets SO_NOSIGPIPE on its local Unix socket. Regression tests cover peer-check failure and relay shutdown during a blocked socket write. Test support adds connection synchronization and socket helpers.

Changes

Remote CLI relay socket safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Suppress SIGPIPE on relay sockets
Packages/macOS/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Sources/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Relay/RemoteCLIRelaySession+Socket.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Tests/CmuxRemoteWorkspaceTests/RemoteCLIRelayPolicyTestSupport.swift
The relay socket and policy test server listener set SO_NOSIGPIPE. Each path closes the socket and reports an error if setting the option fails.
Peer-check failure and socket closure
Packages/macOS/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Tests/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Tests/CmuxRemoteWorkspaceTests/RemoteCLIRelayPolicyTestSupport.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Tests/CmuxRemoteWorkspaceTests/RemoteCLIRelayPolicyTests.swift
The fake Unix socket server signals when it serves a connection. A regression test checks that a peer-check failure returns a denied response and that the relay closes the local socket.
Blocked socket write and relay stop
Packages/macOS/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Tests/CmuxRemoteWorkspaceTests/RemoteCLIRelayServerTests.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxRemoteWorkspace/Tests/CmuxRemoteWorkspaceTests/RemoteCLIRelayServerBlockedWriteTests.swift
Existing relay test helpers become accessible within the test module. New helpers and a regression test check socket hang-up after stopping the relay during a 1 MiB write.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d8ab2

The relay and test fixture now suppress SIGPIPE on the relevant sockets. No unresolved merge-blocking issue is established by the reviewed changes.

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🟠 Major · Protect the fixture socket before the new… · RemoteCLIRelayPolicyTestSupport.swift:116-118

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Protect the fixture socket before the new regression test writes to a closed peer.

abandonedLocalRoundTripDoesNotKillTheTestProcess() now exercises this write after the relay rejects the peer and closes its socket. PolicyFakeUnixSocketServer.init never sets SO_NOSIGPIPE. The reply can therefore raise SIGPIPE and terminate the package test process before servedConnection.signal() runs. Darwin requires SO_NOSIGPIPE to suppress that signal and return EPIPE instead. (developer.apple.com)

Make PolicyFakeUnixSocketServer.init own this socket-safety invariant. Set SO_NOSIGPIPE on the listener before listening, and close the descriptor and throw if configuration fails. This protects accepted reply sockets without adding a process-wide signal override.

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The relay's local socket and the policy fixture's listener now set
SO_NOSIGPIPE, so a write to a socket that was shut down or whose peer
hung up fails with EPIPE instead of killing a host process that hasn't
ignored SIGPIPE. The app only ignores it through Ghostty's startup, so
package tests and any other embedder had no protection. Darwin refuses
the option once the peer is gone, so both set it before connecting or
listening. Accepted sockets inherit it from the listener, as in the two
sibling fixtures #15116 fixed.

On a socket-creation failure the relay closes the descriptor and reports
the existing "failed to create local relay socket" error, so the app's
behavior is unchanged.

Refs #15488

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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