T558b measured its own patience, not the child's blocking - #216
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Red on `main`, on 3.12: `the child did not block on the lock: waited 0.135s`. The test starts a child, sleeps 1.5s, and checks the child has not finished. But until its first statement the child is importing `ctrlrun` and opening a Postgres connection, and on a loaded runner that can outlast the whole sleep. So `child.poll() is None` meant *still booting* as easily as *blocked on the lock*, and the 0.135s is the child reaching `put_hold` after the prune had already released. The test failed because it could not prove the property, not because the property was false. That is the safe direction to fail in, and it is still a flaky test. The comment above the assertion said the measurement starts after the interpreter and imports. It identified the confound and the assertion did not account for it. Fixed with a handshake: the child prints `ready` once it is connected and its next statement is the one that must block, and the parent does not start its clock until it reads that. The floor is now half the hold rather than a constant picked to be small enough to usually pass. Verified both directions. Three consecutive runs pass. Removing the `SELECT ... FOR UPDATE` from `put_hold` fails it in 0.002s on the *security* assertion, "a hold landed while a prune held the lock", which is the one that should fire. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe retention lock test now synchronizes child readiness before measuring lock wait time. The parent uses a 1.0-second hold interval, and the assertion requires a wait of at least half that interval. ChangesRetention lock timing
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In `@tests/test_retention.py`:
- Around line 1471-1472: The readiness handshake in the child-process test can
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Bound the readiness handshake.
If the child stalls before printing ready, child.stdout.readline() can remain blocked. The repository provides no pytest or check-job timeout to bound this wait. The parent remains inside parent.pruning(), so communicate(timeout=60) and normal child cleanup are not reached. Add a bounded readiness wait, then terminate and reap the child before failing.
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In `@tests/test_retention.py` around lines 1471 - 1472, The readiness handshake in
the child-process test can block indefinitely on child.stdout.readline().
Replace it with a bounded wait, and on timeout terminate the child, reap it, and
then fail the assertion; preserve the existing “ready” validation for successful
handshakes and ensure cleanup occurs before the test exits.
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Red on
mainat42ca114, on 3.12 only:What was wrong
The test starts a child process, sleeps 1.5s, and checks the child has not finished. But until its first statement the child is importing
ctrlrunand opening a Postgres connection, and on a loaded runner that can outlast the entire sleep. Sochild.poll() is Nonemeant still booting just as easily as blocked on the lock, and the 0.135s is the child reachingput_holdafter the prune had already released it.The test failed because it could not prove the property, not because the property was false. That is the right direction to fail in, and it is still flaky.
Worth noting: the comment directly above the assertion already said "the child's own measurement starts after its interpreter and imports". It identified the confound and the assertion did not account for it.
The fix
A readiness handshake. The child prints
readyonce it is connected and its next statement is the one that must block; the parent does not start its clock until it reads that line. The floor becomes half the hold, derived from the hold rather than a constant picked to be small enough to usually pass.Verified both directions
Three consecutive runs pass. And removing the
SELECT ... FOR UPDATEfromput_hold:It fails on the security assertion, which is the one that should fire, rather than on the timing one.
This is test-only.
v0.12.1is onmainand not yet tagged; I would rather tag a greenmainthan a red one.Summary by CodeRabbit