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Direct SSH links stopped reconnecting after the new default recovery deadline expired. ReconnectPolicy documented maximum_duration as an opt-in bound, but the default was set to 120 seconds, so a long-lived cmux ssh session could exit with remote connection did not become ready within ... after a transient disconnect.

This restores an unbounded default for interactive links. Bounded one-shot callers can still set maximum_duration explicitly. The regression test now asserts the default recovery window is unbounded.

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Fixes direct SSH links so they keep reconnecting after a transient disconnect. The default recovery deadline of 120 seconds caused long-lived cmux ssh sessions to exit with remote connection did not become ready within ...; the default is now unbounded, and one-shot callers can still set maximum_duration explicitly. Test fixtures were updated to match the new default.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Automatic connection recovery no longer stops after 120 seconds by default. Recovery can continue without a time limit unless a deadline is configured. You can still set a recovery deadline when needed, and existing limits on the number of reconnection attempts remain in effect.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The default reconnect policy now has no overall recovery deadline. Tests check the unbounded default and set maximum_duration to None for heartbeat, owner-disconnected-session, and PTY reconnect cases.

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Reconnect policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Set the default recovery window
cmux-tui/crates/cmux-remote/src/connection.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-remote/tests/pty_reconnect_e2e.rs
The default policy sets maximum_duration to None. The default-policy test checks this value and retains its zero-duration validation assertion. Heartbeat, owner-disconnected-session, and PTY reconnect tests explicitly set maximum_duration to None.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cb5e9

Long-lived SSH links will keep reconnecting after transient disconnects instead of exiting after 120 seconds. The change is small and covered by updated tests, so merge risk is minimal.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cb5e9

Reconnect continues to enforce the established daemon identity and session ownership. The main design risk is that the shared unbounded default also reaches non-interactive callers, whose termination behavior may now depend on separate limits or shutdown handling.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The unbounded shared default also reaches one-shot CLI RPC connections, rather than being confined to interactive SSH. Without an explicit attempt limit or a higher-layer deadline, recovery can continue until owner shutdown. The complete RPC deadline behavior remains unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure change is longer recovery activity for existing client connections using the shared default. Reattachment remains constrained to the established daemon identity and logical session; the inspected change does not introduce a new credential or authority source.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Every replacement carrier passes authentication and daemon-key validation, followed by session and generation checks. Removing the recovery deadline does not remove those admission controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — An endpoint that stalls a carrier attempt remains subject to the attempt timeout, and owner close can interrupt dialing, discovery, or backoff. These controls contain individual attempts but no longer impose a default limit on total recovery activity.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make non-interactive callers' recovery budgets explicit, independently of the interactive default, and verify that a stalled operation reaches owner shutdown through its deadline or cancellation path.
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- Line 76: Update the one-shot resource-operation path around
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// Long-lived interactive links, including direct SSH sessions,
// must keep retrying until their owner closes them. Callers that
// run bounded one-shot work can opt into a recovery deadline.
maximum_duration: None,

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Give one-shot terminal-client operations a finite outer timeout.

resource_operation runs mux.request without an outer deadline when timeout_milliseconds is zero. With the new unbounded default, a retryable failure can leave that one-shot call pending until the client closes. Pass a finite timeout for one-shot resource calls.

Keep the unbounded policy for the Cloud runtime and persistent terminal links. Their owners control connection shutdown.

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Review comment at @cmux-tui/crates/cmux-remote/src/connection.rs at line 76:
Update the one-shot resource-operation path around `resource_operation` to pass
a finite outer timeout to `mux.request`, including when `timeout_milliseconds`
is zero. Keep the unbounded timeout policy for the Cloud runtime and persistent
terminal links.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
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