fix(ci): retry ETXTBSY spawns and stop reporting them as missing libraries - #1368
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…aries Closes #1366. `Check (ubuntu-latest)` could fail at random on any PR with: probe_linux_exports_the_bundle_on_ld_library_path "without the bundle the stub must fail like a real missing .so" The test writes a shell script, marks it executable, and runs it. Linux refuses to `exec` a file while any process holds a writable descriptor for it — including a `fork`ed child of this process that has not reached its own `exec` yet. libtest runs cases on parallel threads and several of them spawn subprocesses, so a sibling's fork can inherit the descriptor and the exec fails with `ETXTBSY` for a reason that has nothing to do with the script. Evidence it was scheduling, not code: green at `78d8f27e` and `8dd5aace`, red at `ef687774`, then green again on a re-run of the identical tree — where the only delta was a `HashMap` key change in a crate the test cannot reach. ## Two changes, both narrow **Retry, opt-in.** `run_command_retrying_exec_busy` (+ blocking form) retries a spawn that fails with `ETXTBSY`, three attempts, 25 ms backoff, on a `tokio::time::sleep` so it never blocks a runtime worker. Only that error is retried — a missing binary must still fail on the first attempt rather than three times slowly. Deliberately *not* wired into every subprocess in fbuild: retrying an exec is a behavior change, and only callers with the write-then-exec shape need it. `probe_qemu_binary` is the one caller. **`QemuProbe::SpawnFailed`.** The probe collapsed spawn failures and odd exit codes into `Inconclusive`, so a failed exec surfaced through an assertion about shared libraries — which is what made this take a diagnosis cycle instead of being self-describing. "Never started" is now distinct from "started and could not find a .so", and carries the OS error, logged at `warn`. Behavior is unchanged: both still map to `Ok(())`, so the production path is exactly as forgiving as before. ## Verified on Linux, in a container, because the tests are Linux-gated - `a_held_write_handle_blocks_exec_for_the_whole_retry_budget` — fully deterministic: the handle outlives the retry budget, so exec must fail. This reproduces #1366's mechanism with no thread timing at all. - `a_handle_released_mid_window_lets_the_retry_through` — proves the retry is what fixes it. RED/GREEN confirmed: with `EXEC_BUSY_ATTEMPTS = 1` this test fails and the deterministic one still passes. - `only_executable_file_busy_is_retryable` — platform-independent guard that no other error kind gets retried. The 10 ms hold is deliberately small against the ~75 ms budget so a loaded runner cannot turn this into the flake it exists to prevent. fbuild-core (290) and fbuild-toolchain (149) both pass on Linux, and clippy `-D warnings` is clean there. Worth noting the container caught something a Windows host could not: `SpawnFailed`'s payload is only constructed inside a Linux-gated branch, so its unused-field warning simply does not exist on Windows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe subprocess layer adds opt-in retries for ChangesExecutable-busy retry and QEMU probing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change narrows ETXTBSY retries to QEMU probing and keeps production success behavior unchanged. One retry-path test can still be timing-sensitive, so the PR is mergeable with owner awareness and should make timer readiness deterministic. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/esp_qemu_runtime.rs`:
- Around line 298-299: Update the error mapping around
run_command_retrying_exec_busy so errors returned after a successful process
spawn, including wait_and_capture timeouts, use the dedicated probe-failure
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…rm facade Three CI failures on the first run of #1368, all from the same two mistakes: - **`Check (macos-latest)`** — `a_held_write_handle_blocks_exec_for_the_whole_retry_budget` failed there. Darwin lets a plain open-for-write coexist with `execve`; only Linux enforces `ETXTBSY`. Gating on `unix` was wrong — macOS is unix and the test could never pass on it. Now gated on the host actually being Linux, through a runtime check that returns early, matching how the QEMU probe test next door already gates itself. - **`Dylint` and `Inventory (linux/macos/windows)`** — the platform-boundary ledger (#1306) flagged three `#[cfg(unix)]` attributes and one `std::os::unix` permissions import as new raw host mechanics in `fbuild-core`. Both are gone: the runtime Linux check replaces the `cfg` attributes, and the fixture now sets the executable bit through `platform::fs::set_executable`, which is the neutral facade that exists for exactly this. No ledger entry needed — the right fix for "you added raw platform mechanics" is to stop adding them. Verified on both hosts: the tests exercise the real behavior on Linux (23 passed in the container) and return early on Windows. `ci/enforce_platform_boundary.py` and `ci/platform_boundary_research.py` both pass locally. Refs #1366 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…umbers The ledger records file/line for every host-mechanic occurrence, so adding the `QemuProbe::SpawnFailed` variant moved two existing `esp_qemu_runtime.rs` entries down by 11 lines and the committed TSV no longer matched. Regenerated with `--write`. The diff is two line numbers — no occurrence added, removed, or reclassified. Refs #1366 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CodeRabbit was right that `SpawnFailed` over-claimed: `run_command_retrying_exec_busy` returns `Err` for post-spawn failures too — a timeout, a capture error — so labelling every one of them a *spawn* failure mislabels them. That is the same over-claiming this PR exists to remove, one level up. Renamed to `ProbeFailed`: "the probe produced no exit code to interpret". True for both cases, and still distinct from `Inconclusive`, which did get an exit code that simply means nothing. Deliberately not split into spawn-vs-timeout variants, as the review suggested. The error crossing that boundary is already flattened to a string by `subprocess::spawn_err`, so separating them here would mean matching on message text — and inventing a distinction the code cannot actually make is exactly how the original bug happened. The carried string is the underlying error and says which it was. Inventory refreshed for the shifted line numbers. Refs #1366 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@coderabbitai — good catch, fixed, though not quite the way you suggested and I want to be explicit about why. You're right that I renamed the variant to If the split is worth having, the right place is the subprocess layer returning a typed spawn-vs-run error rather than a formatted string — that's a real API change and belongs in its own PR, not as a rider here. |
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In `@crates/fbuild-core/src/subprocess.rs`:
- Around line 802-805: Update the test
a_handle_released_mid_window_lets_the_retry_through so the detached task signals
readiness only after arming its 10 ms timer, then synchronize the test with that
signal before starting the probe; alternatively coordinate the probe and timer
using tokio::join!. Ensure the writable handle is released within the retry
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Tokio does not provide a strict guarantee that a spawned task or a joined future will be polled immediately, nor does it guarantee a specific execution order [1]. Regarding tokio::spawn: When you call tokio::spawn, the task is submitted to the Tokio runtime to be executed in the background [2][3]. While it is guaranteed that spawn will not synchronously poll the task being spawned [2][4]—preventing immediate deadlock risks—there is no guarantee that it will be polled immediately after the call [1]. The runtime schedules tasks based on its own internal state, and while it aims to be fair, it does not guarantee that a newly spawned task will preempt currently running tasks [1]. Regarding tokio::join!: The join! macro multiplexes multiple futures onto the same task [5]. These futures are polled concurrently, not in parallel [5][6]. By default, join! rotates which future is polled first whenever it is woken to help ensure fairness among the joined futures [5][7]. This default rotation behavior can be overridden by using the biased; modifier, which forces the macro to poll futures in the order they appear, from top to bottom [5]. In biased mode, the developer assumes responsibility for ensuring fair execution, as futures appearing later in the list may be delayed if earlier futures take a significant amount of time to return Poll::Ready or return Poll::Pending [5][7]. General Scheduling: Tokio uses cooperative multitasking [8][9]. Tasks are generally only scheduled when they have been woken, although spurious wakeups can occur [1]. While Tokio provides fairness guarantees—ensuring that if the number of tasks remains bounded and no task blocks the thread, tasks will eventually be scheduled [1]—it does not offer strict real-time guarantees regarding exactly when a task will be polled next [1][10].
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- 2: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/fn.spawn.html
- 3: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/5030b300/tokio/src/task/spawn.rs
- 4: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/src/tokio/task/spawn.rs.html
- 5: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/macro.join.html
- 6: https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/part-guide/concurrency-primitives.html
- 7: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/src/tokio/macros/join.rs.html
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Make the transient-release test scheduling-safe.
A detached task can start its 10 ms timer after the probe begins. This can keep the writable handle open through all three retry attempts. Use tokio::join!, or signal readiness after arming the timer before starting the probe.
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In `@crates/fbuild-core/src/subprocess.rs` around lines 802 - 805, Update the test
a_handle_released_mid_window_lets_the_retry_through so the detached task signals
readiness only after arming its 10 ms timer, then synchronize the test with that
signal before starting the probe; alternatively coordinate the probe and timer
using tokio::join!. Ensure the writable handle is released within the retry
window deterministically.
CodeRabbit, on the test written to avoid flakiness: `tokio::spawn` is detached, so its 10 ms timer only arms whenever the runtime first polls it. On a loaded runner that could be after the whole ~75 ms retry budget had elapsed, holding the handle through all three attempts — making this exactly the flake it exists to prevent. The releaser now signals on a oneshot before sleeping, and the probe does not start until that signal arrives, so the timer is always armed first. The test also joins the releaser rather than leaking it. Verified on Linux: both tests still pass. Refs #1366 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two things, and the second is a retreat. ## De-flake the retry test (the important one) `a_handle_released_mid_window_lets_the_retry_through`, which I added in #1368, failed on this PR's ubuntu leg. It is my test, in a required check, so it can redden anyone's PR — the exact class of problem #1366 was about, reintroduced by the fix for it. The test raced a task that releases a write handle after 10 ms against a second spawn attempt at 25 ms. I called that "a loaded runner can delay the release several times over and this still passes". A 2.5x margin was not the margin I thought it was. The backoff is now injectable, and the test uses 500 ms against the same 10 ms hold — fifty times later, not two and a half. Production still uses the 25 ms constant. Verified on Linux, where the test is not a no-op: 23 pass, 0.51 s. ## Stop guessing at #1373 The Windows ui-test step goes back to ubuntu-only. Two hypotheses tried, two CI rounds, same failure both times: - normalizing the PATH separator with `cygpath -u` — a real hazard, the runner's log genuinely shows a mangled `C` entry, but not this bug; - adding the untargeted `debug` and `debug/deps` to PATH — no change at all. What is established and now recorded on the issue: two target-dir layouts coexist (reproduced locally), the library is at `<target>/debug` while compiletest's PATH points at `<target>/<triple>/debug/deps`, and the failure is `LoadLibraryExW` on the library itself — a missing dependency, not a missing file. Whatever that dependency is, it is not in either directory I tried. The `cygpath` normalization stays: it fixes a genuine latent corruption on Windows even though it did not fix this. The scoping comment now says what was ruled out, so the next attempt does not repeat it. The Windows leg keeps doing the thing #1359 added it for — compiling Windows-gated workspace source so the lints can see it. Refs #1373 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…join (#1377) * fix(ci): stop mangling PATH on Windows, and run the lint ui tests there Closes #1373. I filed this blaming a dylint/soldr/compiletest interaction over `CARGO_BUILD_TARGET`. That was wrong. The bug is in the workflow, and it is mine — the `PATH` the step exported was corrupt on Windows. ## What actually happened The step did: export PATH="${CARGO_HOME}/bin:${PATH}" On Windows `CARGO_HOME` is a native path (`C:\Users\runneradmin\.cargo`) while `$PATH` inside Git Bash is POSIX and `:`-separated. Joining them yields C:\Users\runneradmin\.cargo/bin:/usr/bin:... whose drive-letter colon reads as a separator. The failing run's own log shows the result — a bare `C` entry followed by a bogus `D:\Users\runneradmin\.cargo\bin` — which I had noted as "looks mangled" and then discounted. With the cargo proxy unreachable, the compiletest driver could not resolve the lint library's dependencies, and every ui fixture failed with could not load library `...\ban_manual_slash_normalize@nightly-2026-04-16.dll`: LoadLibraryExW failed That is a *dependent*-DLL failure, not a missing file — the distinction the issue said to confirm before assuming a path problem. Confirming it is what found this. ## Fix Normalize through `cygpath -u` before prepending, giving `/c/Users/.../.cargo/bin`, which is safe to join with `:`. `cygpath` is absent on Linux and macOS, where the path is already POSIX, so the conversion is guarded. The sweep step was never affected: it invokes `"${CARGO_HOME}/bin/cargo-dylint"` as a single argument rather than through `PATH`. Noted there so the asymmetry does not look accidental. ## The step now runs on Windows #1359 scoped "Test Dylint libraries" to ubuntu because of this failure. That reasoning no longer holds, so the scoping is removed and the lint crates' own ui fixtures run on both legs — which matters more than it sounds: several of these lints are about path spelling, and their diagnostic rendering is exactly the kind of thing that differs per-OS. The four remaining ubuntu-only steps stay that way on the original grounds: they are Python validators and a rustfmt check, and learn nothing from a second OS. ## Verified The mangling mechanism is reproduced locally — the bad expression yields `C:\Users\runneradmin\.cargo/bin:/usr/bin`, matching the runner's log — and the corrected script produces `/c/Users/.../.cargo/bin`. Running the step's shell verbatim over all 27 lint crates on a Windows host: 27 pass, 0 failures. The runner is still the final oracle for a runner-specific interaction, which is why the step is enabled in the same change rather than after it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): put the untargeted deps dir on PATH for the dylint ui tests The first attempt fixed a real PATH-mangling hazard but not this failure — the Windows leg failed identically, which the PR's own Windows run showed. The log makes the mechanism explicit. compiletest invokes the driver with PATH=...target/dylint-tests\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\debug;...\debug\deps;... while the lint library it is told to load is at target/dylint-tests\debug\ban_manual_slash_normalize@nightly-2026-04-16.dll Two target-dir layouts coexist: soldr builds the test binary under `<target>/<triple>/debug`, and each lint's `fn ui` clears `CARGO_BUILD_TARGET` so the *library* it rebuilds lands in `<target>/debug` — the only place Dylint 6.0.1 looks. Both directories exist, which is reproducible locally. So the library loads from one tree while its sibling rustc dylibs are searched for in the other. `LoadLibraryExW failed` names the library and reads like a missing file; it is a missing *dependency*. That is the distinction the issue said to confirm before assuming a path problem, and it is what the first attempt got wrong. Adding the untargeted `debug` and `debug/deps` to PATH makes both trees resolvable whichever one an artifact came from. Harmless on Linux and macOS, where the loader uses rpath and the directories go unused. Keeping the `cygpath -u` normalization from the first commit: joining a native `CARGO_HOME` to a POSIX `$PATH` with `:` really does corrupt the variable — the runner's own log shows a bare `C` entry — it just was not what broke this. Refs #1373 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): de-flake my own ETXTBSY retry test; stop guessing at #1373 Two things, and the second is a retreat. ## De-flake the retry test (the important one) `a_handle_released_mid_window_lets_the_retry_through`, which I added in #1368, failed on this PR's ubuntu leg. It is my test, in a required check, so it can redden anyone's PR — the exact class of problem #1366 was about, reintroduced by the fix for it. The test raced a task that releases a write handle after 10 ms against a second spawn attempt at 25 ms. I called that "a loaded runner can delay the release several times over and this still passes". A 2.5x margin was not the margin I thought it was. The backoff is now injectable, and the test uses 500 ms against the same 10 ms hold — fifty times later, not two and a half. Production still uses the 25 ms constant. Verified on Linux, where the test is not a no-op: 23 pass, 0.51 s. ## Stop guessing at #1373 The Windows ui-test step goes back to ubuntu-only. Two hypotheses tried, two CI rounds, same failure both times: - normalizing the PATH separator with `cygpath -u` — a real hazard, the runner's log genuinely shows a mangled `C` entry, but not this bug; - adding the untargeted `debug` and `debug/deps` to PATH — no change at all. What is established and now recorded on the issue: two target-dir layouts coexist (reproduced locally), the library is at `<target>/debug` while compiletest's PATH points at `<target>/<triple>/debug/deps`, and the failure is `LoadLibraryExW` on the library itself — a missing dependency, not a missing file. Whatever that dependency is, it is not in either directory I tried. The `cygpath` normalization stays: it fixes a genuine latent corruption on Windows even though it did not fix this. The scoping comment now says what was ruled out, so the next attempt does not repeat it. The Windows leg keeps doing the thing #1359 added it for — compiling Windows-gated workspace source so the lints can see it. Refs #1373 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #1366.
The flake
Check (ubuntu-latest)could redden any PR at random with a failure in a crate the PR never touched:The test writes a shell script, marks it executable, and runs it. Linux refuses to
execa file while any process holds a writable descriptor for it — including aforked child of this process that has not reached its ownexecyet. libtest runs cases on parallel threads and several spawn subprocesses, so a sibling's fork can inherit the descriptor and the exec fails withETXTBSYfor a reason that has nothing to do with the script.Evidence it was scheduling, not code:
Check (ubuntu-latest)78d8f27e8dd5aaceef687774ef687774re-run, identical treeThe only delta between the last green and the red was a
HashMapkey change in a crate the test cannot reach.Two changes, both narrow
Retry, opt-in.
run_command_retrying_exec_busy(+ blocking form) retries a spawn that fails withETXTBSY— three attempts, 25 ms backoff, on atokio::time::sleepso it never blocks a runtime worker. Only that error kind is retried; a missing binary still fails on the first attempt rather than three times slowly.Deliberately not wired into every subprocess in fbuild. Retrying an exec is a behavior change, and only callers with the write-then-exec shape need it —
probe_qemu_binaryis the single caller. (A global retry has real precedent: cargo does exactly this for binaries it just built. If that's wanted, it should be its own change with its own justification, not a rider on a flake fix.)QemuProbe::SpawnFailed. The probe collapsed spawn failures and odd exit codes intoInconclusive, so a failed exec surfaced through an assertion about shared libraries — which is precisely why this cost a diagnosis cycle rather than being self-describing. "Never started" is now distinct from "started and could not find a .so", carries the OS error, and is logged atwarn. Behavior is unchanged: both still map toOk(()), so the production path is exactly as forgiving as it was.Verified on Linux, in a container, because the tests are Linux-gated
My host is Windows, so these could not be compiled — let alone run — locally. I stood up the Linux container rather than let CI discover compile errors:
a_held_write_handle_blocks_exec_for_the_whole_retry_budget— fully deterministic. The handle outlives the retry budget, so exec must fail. This reproduces flake(ci): esp_qemu_runtime probe test fails intermittently on ubuntu — write-then-exec race in a required check #1366's mechanism with no thread timing whatsoever.a_handle_released_mid_window_lets_the_retry_through— proves the retry is what fixes it. RED/GREEN confirmed: withEXEC_BUSY_ATTEMPTS = 1this test fails while the deterministic one still passes.only_executable_file_busy_is_retryable— platform-independent guard that no other error kind is retried.The 10 ms hold is deliberately small against the ~75 ms retry budget, so a loaded runner cannot turn this into the flake it exists to prevent.
fbuild-core (290 tests) and fbuild-toolchain (149) both pass on Linux; clippy
-D warningsis clean there.Worth flagging: the container caught something a Windows host cannot.
SpawnFailed's payload is only constructed inside a Linux-gated branch, so its unused-field warning does not exist on Windows — Windows clippy was green while Linux would have failed under-D warnings. That is the same class of gap as #1359 (the Dylint job being ubuntu-only), pointing the other direction.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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