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Fixes pnpm/pnpm#7374.

Ctrl+C makes the terminal send SIGINT to the whole foreground process group, which holds both the lifecycle runner (pnpm) and the child it spawned. The runner then relayed the same SIGINT to the child, which received it twice. A child that handles the first SIGINT and lets the second one end it (a process.once handler, or a handler that treats a repeated Ctrl+C as "exit now") died before its shutdown finished.

Node.js cannot tell who sent a signal, so the runner now checks whether it has a controlling terminal. With one, the terminal's interrupt already reached the child and nothing is relayed. Without one (containers, service managers, CI), only kill() can reach the runner, and the child still needs the relay, so that path is unchanged.

Tests: one runs the lifecycle under a pseudo-terminal (via a small Python pty helper) and presses Ctrl+C, asserting the child counts a single interrupt; the other sends SIGINT to a runner without a terminal and asserts the child is still interrupted. Both are skipped on Windows.

The pnpm v12 (Rust) side of the same fix is in pnpm/pnpm; the pnpm v11 side needs a release of this package and a catalog bump there.


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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Ctrl+C handling for processes running in a terminal, enabling graceful shutdown without triggering an unnecessary forced interruption.
    • Preserved interrupt forwarding for non-terminal execution environments.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for terminal and non-terminal interrupt behavior, including graceful exit status and shutdown timing.

Ctrl+C makes the terminal send SIGINT to the whole foreground process
group, which holds both the lifecycle runner and the child it spawned.
The runner then relayed the same SIGINT to the child, which received it
twice. A child that handles the first SIGINT and lets the second one end
it (a `process.once` handler, or a handler that treats a repeated Ctrl+C
as "exit now") died before its shutdown finished.

Node.js cannot tell who sent a signal, so the runner now checks whether
it has a controlling terminal. With one, the terminal's interrupt
already reached the child and nothing is relayed. Without one, only
kill() can reach the runner, and the child still needs the relay, so
that path is unchanged.

Fixes pnpm/pnpm#7374

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds controlling-terminal detection to SIGINT handling. It adds interrupt fixtures and integration tests that cover terminal and non-terminal execution, graceful shutdown, timeout handling, and exit status.

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SIGINT handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Terminal-aware signal routing
index.js
procInterrupt sends SIGINT to the child only when no controlling terminal exists. hasControllingTerminal checks /dev/tty on non-Windows platforms and returns false on Windows.
Interrupt fixture and integration tests
test/fixtures/interrupt/*, test/interrupt.test.js
The fixture handles the first SIGINT with delayed graceful shutdown and exits with status 130 after a later SIGINT. The runner and pseudo-terminal harness execute the fixture. Tests cover terminal and non-terminal execution and require graceful exit status 0.

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  participant Terminal
  participant Lifecycle
  participant ChildProcess
  Terminal->>Lifecycle: Receive SIGINT
  Lifecycle->>Lifecycle: Check controlling terminal
  Lifecycle->>ChildProcess: Relay SIGINT only without a controlling terminal
  ChildProcess-->>Lifecycle: Complete graceful shutdown
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The new shutdown test can intermittently miss its final confirmation output, reducing confidence in the SIGINT behavior. Wait for process stream closure before merging.

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A sh that stays node's parent (dash 0.5.12, as on Debian and Ubuntu)
takes the signals itself: Ctrl+C ends it while the script finishes, and
a relayed SIGINT is held until its child exits, which it never does.
Both are the shell's doing, so the fixture execs node and the tests
measure the relay. Every assertion carries the child's output, and the
no-terminal test kills the run after ten seconds instead of waiting.

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Prevent duplicate SIGINT relay for terminal lifecycle runs

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 20-40 Minutes

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• Avoids duplicate child SIGINT delivery when Ctrl+C targets a terminal process group.
• Preserves SIGINT relaying for runners without a controlling terminal.
• Adds PTY and headless regression coverage with bounded shutdown behavior.
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sequenceDiagram
  actor Source as Signal Source
  participant TTY as Terminal
  participant Runner as Lifecycle Runner
  participant Child as Child Process
  alt Ctrl+C with controlling terminal
    Source->>TTY: Ctrl+C
    TTY-->>Runner: SIGINT
    TTY-->>Child: SIGINT
    Runner->>Runner: Detect terminal
    Note over Runner,Child: Child relay suppressed
  else SIGINT without terminal
    Source->>Runner: kill(SIGINT)
    Runner->>Runner: No controlling terminal
    Runner-->>Child: Relay SIGINT
  end
  Child->>Child: Graceful shutdown
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The controlling-terminal check is the most practical approach because Node.js does not expose the signal sender. Checking process.stdin.isTTY would incorrectly classify processes whose standard input is redirected despite having a controlling terminal, while isolating the child in another process group would materially change shell and job-control behavior. The current approach minimally fixes duplicate delivery and preserves headless signal forwarding.

Files changed (6) +135 / -1

Bug fix (1) +25 / -1
index.jsConditionally relay SIGINT based on controlling-terminal presence +25/-1

Conditionally relay SIGINT based on controlling-terminal presence

• Adds a POSIX controlling-terminal probe using '/dev/tty'. Terminal-originated SIGINT is no longer forwarded redundantly, while headless runners continue relaying the signal to their child.

index.js

Tests (5) +110 / -0
dev.jsAdd repeated-interrupt lifecycle fixture +16/-0

Add repeated-interrupt lifecycle fixture

• Adds a child process that shuts down gracefully after its first SIGINT and exits forcibly after a second, making duplicate delivery observable.

test/fixtures/interrupt/dev.js

package.jsonDefine shell-free interrupt fixture script +7/-0

Define shell-free interrupt fixture script

• Defines a lifecycle script that uses 'exec' to replace the shell with Node, preventing shell-specific signal handling from affecting the regression tests.

test/fixtures/interrupt/package.json

run.mjsRun the interrupt fixture through the lifecycle API +18/-0

Run the interrupt fixture through the lifecycle API

• Invokes the fixture's development script with inherited stdio and silent logging. It reports lifecycle failures while ensuring the tested process hierarchy matches normal lifecycle execution.

test/fixtures/interrupt/run.mjs

terminal.pyAdd pseudo-terminal Ctrl+C test driver +31/-0

Add pseudo-terminal Ctrl+C test driver

• Runs the lifecycle fixture as a PTY foreground job, sends Ctrl+C after startup, captures output, and propagates the process exit status.

test/fixtures/interrupt/terminal.py

interrupt.test.jsCover terminal and headless SIGINT propagation +38/-0

Cover terminal and headless SIGINT propagation

• Verifies that terminal Ctrl+C reaches the child exactly once and that direct SIGINT still reaches a child without a terminal. Tests include diagnostic output, Windows skips, and timeouts to prevent hangs.

test/interrupt.test.js

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zkochan added a commit to pnpm/pnpm that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
Import the lifecycle runner from pnpm/npm-lifecycle at 178f3d5 as
@pnpm/exec.npm-lifecycle, so it is maintained alongside its consumer
and a fix no longer needs a separate release.

The source is converted to TypeScript with typed options, package
data, log and child-process interfaces, which replaces the any-typed
declaration in __typings__/local.d.ts. The legacy pkg._data unwrapping
and the unused opts.config are dropped. The tests are ported to jest.

The node-gyp wrappers ship with the package; the runner finds them
beside lib in the package and in dist once the CLI bundle has
flattened the module, where the CLI ships its own copy. The manifest
updater keeps node-gyp-bin in the package's files. @yarnpkg/shell's
declarations import micromatch's, so a packageExtensions entry gives
it @types/micromatch. The Artistic-2.0 license is preserved.

The imported code includes the fix for the terminal SIGINT being
relayed to a script that already had it (pnpm/npm-lifecycle#62), which
this brings to pnpm v11; a pseudo-terminal test covers it in the
package and in the CLI.

Related to #7374
zkochan added a commit to pnpm/pnpm that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
Ctrl+C makes the terminal send SIGINT to the whole foreground process
group, which holds both pnpm and the script it started. The relay in
pnpm-executor's interrupt module then passed the same SIGINT on to the
script, which received it twice. A script that handles the first SIGINT
and lets a second one end it died before its shutdown finished.

pnpm now skips the first relay to a child in its own process group when
pnpm's process group is the foreground group of its controlling
terminal, which is the group Ctrl+C interrupts as a whole. Signals aimed
at pnpm alone (kill, without a terminal) are still relayed, as are
signals to children in their own process groups, which the terminal
never reaches. The escalation to SIGTERM and to ending pnpm is unchanged.

siginfo cannot decide this portably: Linux marks the terminal's signals
SI_KERNEL, but XNU fills si_code with 0 for kill() and the terminal
alike, so the terminal's foreground group is asked instead. open,
tcgetpgrp, getpgrp and close are async-signal-safe.

The test runs pnpm as the foreground job of a pseudo-terminal and types
Ctrl+C. The kill-based tests now start pnpm in a session without a
terminal, so an interactive cargo test and CI exercise the same path.

The pnpm v11 side is pnpm/npm-lifecycle#62, which reaches pnpm through
#15113.

Fixes #7374
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