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26 changes: 19 additions & 7 deletions tests/test_retention.py
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Expand Up @@ -1437,9 +1437,16 @@ def test_T558b_a_hold_cannot_land_while_a_prune_holds_the_lock() -> None:
"from ctrlrun.postgres import PostgresStateStore\n"
"from ctrlrun.retention import Hold\n"
f"s = PostgresStateStore({POSTGRES_URL!r}, schema={schema!r})\n"
# **The handshake, and why it is not optional.** Until this line the child is importing
# `ctrlrun` and opening a Postgres connection, and on a loaded runner that can outlast
# the parent's whole sleep. Without it the parent measures its own patience rather than
# the child's blocking: CI saw `waited 0.135s` on a run where the child reached the lock
# only after the prune had released it, and the test failed because it could not prove
# the property rather than because the property was false.
"print('ready', flush=True)\n"
"start = time.time()\n"
"s.put_hold(Hold('late', 1, 3, 'litigation', 'cli:bob', datetime.now(UTC)))\n"
"print('%.3f' % (time.time() - start))\n"
"print('%.3f' % (time.time() - start), flush=True)\n"
"s.close()\n"
)
try:
Expand All @@ -1459,7 +1466,12 @@ def test_T558b_a_hold_cannot_land_while_a_prune_holds_the_lock() -> None:
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
)
time.sleep(1.5)
# Read the child's `ready` before starting the clock: after this it is connected
# and its next statement is the one that must block.
handshake = child.stdout.readline().strip() if child.stdout else ""
assert handshake == "ready", f"the child never reached the lock: {handshake!r}"
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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
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held_for = 1.0
time.sleep(held_for)
still_waiting = child.poll() is None
output, _ = child.communicate(timeout=60)
parent.close()
Expand All @@ -1468,12 +1480,12 @@ def test_T558b_a_hold_cannot_land_while_a_prune_holds_the_lock() -> None:
"a hold landed while a prune held the lock, so it can be placed over receipts the "
f"prune is about to delete: {output}"
)
# The child's own measurement starts after its interpreter and imports, so it is
# necessarily less than the parent's sleep. `still_waiting` above is the real proof;
# this is the coarse floor that separates blocking from an unblocked call, which takes
# single-digit milliseconds.
# With the handshake above, the child's clock starts at the lock rather than at its
# interpreter, so this is now a measurement of blocking and not of startup. The floor is
# half the hold, which leaves room for scheduling on a busy runner while staying far
# above the single-digit milliseconds an uncontended `put_hold` takes.
waited = float(output.strip().splitlines()[-1])
assert waited >= 0.25, f"the child did not block on the lock: waited {waited}s"
assert waited >= held_for / 2, f"the child did not block on the lock: waited {waited}s"
finally:
PostgresStateStore.drop_schema(POSTGRES_URL, schema)

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