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  • Closes [Bug][Windows]: npm update timeout leaves npm running and floods TAR_ENTRY_ERROR after stage cleanup #7737 for Windows npm-backed ocx update: contain the cmd/npm tree in a private Job Object before it runs; terminate and confirm every member has exited before stage cleanup or verification.
  • Keep the 180-second install budget, preserve ETIMEDOUT details and owner-aware recovery through the untouched launcher. Retain the stage and marker whenever exit cannot be confirmed. Use explicit UTF-8 for the supervisor protocol.
  • Add Windows fixtures with non-ASCII npm/stage paths, a detached grandchild with redirected output and a held stage cwd, and an early-exiting parent; assert all recorded processes are gone before the first removal and the stage is fully removed. Timeout fixtures instrument private helper copies to wait for leaf readiness before starting the unchanged two-second test deadline; production deadlines and the existing 20-second test limit are unchanged. Register the test and update user/structure docs.
  • Scope is Windows only, as agreed with the coordinator. POSIX's original spawn block and synchronous status-only transaction are preserved. POSIX complete-tree timeout cleanup remains open: a process group cannot contain detached descendants, so it cannot provide the same exit proof. Codex CLI updater work and fix(update): preserve service-home authority during recovery #7154 are excluded.

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  • Regression before production edits: bun test --isolate tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts — 0 pass / 2 fail; observed (?) instead of ETIMEDOUT, and stage removal without exit proof.
  • Non-ASCII path regression before encoding fix: bun test --isolate tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts -t 'Windows cmd-wrapped tree' — 0 pass / 1 fail. After explicit UTF-8 request/reply encoding: 9 pass / 0 fail in the whole file.
  • bun install --frozen-lockfile — passed, lockfile unchanged.
  • bun run typecheck — passed.
  • bun test --isolate tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts tests/update/update-stop-first.test.ts tests/cli/ocx-launcher-source.test.ts — 50 pass / 1 existing Windows skip / 0 fail on global Bun 1.3.14, including non-ASCII paths.
  • & .\node_modules\bun\bin\bun.exe test --isolate tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts tests/update/update-stop-first.test.ts tests/cli/ocx-launcher-source.test.ts — final fixture on pinned Bun 1.4.4: 50 pass / 1 existing Windows skip / 0 fail. An earlier pinned run failed the orphan readiness case (49/1/1); fixed the fixture synchronization and kept assertions outside product catch boundaries. No timeout increase or failure-hiding retry.
  • bun test --isolate tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts tests/update/update-transactional.test.ts tests/update/update-transactional-leftovers.test.ts tests/update/update-stop-first.test.ts tests/cli/ocx-launcher-source.test.ts — 76 pass / 1 existing Windows skip / 0 fail before the encoding fix; transaction suites have no further changes.
  • Additional isolated coverage: invocation, supervised recovery, layout/tooling, file-size ratchet — 80 pass / 0 fail.
  • bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, Node syntax checks and node bin/ocx.mjs update --help — passed.
  • POSIX baseline comparisons — staging spawn block byte-identical; 3/3 synchronous transaction status outcomes match dev.
  • Docs: bun install --frozen-lockfile and bun run build in docs-site/ — passed; 593 pages and 84,914 internal links checked.
  • bun run test:changed — NOT PASSING: after 700 seconds waiting for the shared test lock, Bun selected 1,222/2,616 test files; the wrapper terminated the suite at its unchanged 900-second deadline and reported exit 124. No final pass/fail summary was produced. The timeout was not increased and the suite was not retried. Broader validation remains required before review readiness.
  • Independent technical security review R3: production code PASS, zero blocking findings at d3115277832df00f5d1b5f3129247ae93d131f64. R4: the final deterministic fixture change, committed as 8bd6cfda1257a17da961f7861c6233af867008d2, also PASS, zero blockers. This touches MAINTAINERS.md's dependency-installation security boundary; explicit maintainer security review remains required before merge.
  • Full bun run test intentionally not run: the coordinator serializes heavy suites. NOT RUN: a completed changed-suite run on the final fixture commit, real service stop/restart or live npm-registry update, macOS/Linux execution, hosted CI, and maintainer security approval. The existing Windows-skipped service recovery integration was not run; recovery eligibility/order has focused coverage.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. Independent technical review passed; maintainer security review is still required before merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Windows npm self-updates by waiting for the installer and its child processes to exit before cleanup or verification.
    • On timeouts or when process exit cannot be confirmed, the update stage is preserved to protect the existing installation and support recovery.
    • Windows npm self-updates require Windows 10 or later with supported process supervision; if unavailable, the update does not start.
  • Documentation

    • Added troubleshooting guidance for Windows npm staging timeouts and clarified platform-specific update behavior.

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The Windows npm self-update path now supervises the installer process tree and waits for confirmed exit before stage cleanup or verification. If exit cannot be confirmed, the updater retains the stage and ownership marker. POSIX keeps its synchronous installer path.

Changes: Windows npm update supervision

Layer / File(s) Summary
Installer process supervision
src/update/npm-install.mjs:1-70, src/update/npm-install-job.ps1:1-173
The Node wrapper sends the npm invocation to a PowerShell helper. The helper starts the installer in a Windows Job Object, terminates the job on timeout, and reports status and process-tree exit confirmation. It fails closed when required process-creation attributes are unavailable.
Transactional cleanup and update wiring
src/update/transactional-install.d.mts:28-55, src/update/transactional-install.mjs:387-552, bin/ocx.mjs:43,60,217,854-865,1143-1144, structure/ops/service-and-sidecars.md:468-472, structure/runtime.md:598, docs-site/src/content/docs/troubleshooting/update-failed.md:37-55, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/platform-support.md:89-92, tests/cli/ocx-launcher-source.test.ts:215
The transaction supports synchronous and asynchronous installers. Windows npm updates await the asynchronous path. The transaction retains the stage when installer-tree exit is unconfirmed. Documentation describes Windows recovery and platform requirements, and distinguishes the synchronous POSIX path.
Timeout and process-tree regression coverage
tests/fixtures/npm-timeout-tree.mjs:1-25, tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts:1-180, tests/update/update-npm-supervisor-exit.test.ts:1-126, tests/update/update-stop-first.test.ts:823, scripts/test-layout/layout.json:1845, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json:1274
Tests cover timeouts, cmd-wrapped process trees, installer results, supervisor termination, unsupported process attributes, and stage retention when exit is unconfirmed. The new tests are assigned to the update shard.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OcxLauncher
  participant TransactionalNpmUpdateAsync
  participant runNpmInstall
  participant NpmInstallJobRun
  participant NpmProcessTree
  OcxLauncher->>TransactionalNpmUpdateAsync: await Windows npm update
  TransactionalNpmUpdateAsync->>runNpmInstall: pass invocation and timeout
  runNpmInstall->>NpmInstallJobRun: send JSON request
  NpmInstallJobRun->>NpmProcessTree: assign suspended process to job and resume
  NpmProcessTree-->>NpmInstallJobRun: exit or timeout
  NpmInstallJobRun-->>runNpmInstall: return status and processTreeExited
  runNpmInstall-->>TransactionalNpmUpdateAsync: return installer result
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Suggested labels: bug

Suggested reviewers: fredamartey

Merge Risk: Low · up to b714f

Some failed Windows updates can leave an unnecessary stage behind or give misleading recovery instructions. Correct these failure paths before merging, or accept the bounded operational impact.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: ensuring the Windows npm process tree exits before staging cleanup.
Linked Issues check Passed Active direct target: #7737 (open, Windows-scoped). Coding requirements and code evidence at reviewed head b714fe5:

1. [#7737] Terminate and join the full npm tree before stage removal. src/update/np…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Changed areas map to the #7737 objective:
- bin/ocx.mjs: Windows npm self-update uses the async transactional updater and runNpmInstall. POSIX keeps the synchronous spawnSync path.
- src/update/npm-in…
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Active direct target: #7737 (open, Windows-scoped). Coding requirements and code evidence at reviewed head b714fe5:

  1. [#7737] Terminate and join the full npm tree before stage removal. src/update/npm-install-job.ps1, NpmInstallJob.Run: the child is created with CREATE_SUSPENDED inside a private job that has JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE (0x2000). The child is added through PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_JOB_LIST, so membership is atomic with creation. Run waits until JobObjectBasicAccountingInformation reports ActiveProcesses = 0 and the root process handle signals. An early root exit does not end the wait while job members remain active. On timeout, TerminateJobObject is called and the code waits up to joinMs for zero active members and root exit. src/update/npm-install.mjs (runNpmInstall) returns processTreeExited false on unconfirmed exit, and src/update/transactional-install.mjs treats that as a stage failure. The stage and marker are retained. Only confirmed exit reaches cleanup.

  2. [#7737] Bounded, explicit timeout error instead of (?). Run sets InstallError code ETIMEDOUT with message 'npm install exceeded <ms> ms'. runNpmInstall forwards the supervisor error. The transaction prefers the installer error code and message over status or signal, so the null status is no longer rendered as (?). The default budget timeoutMs = 180000 is unchanged. Supervisor watchdog = timeoutMs + joinMs (10 s) + 30 s, so the Node side does not cut the supervisor before its own deadline.

  3. [#7737] No npm output after recovery starts. runNpmInstall forwards child stderr only while completed is false. complete() destroys stdin, stdout, and stderr after the supervisor result is final. The Result pipe (STD_OUTPUT) is non-inheritable and is excluded from the handle list. Child stdout is routed to stderr.

3a. Supervisor protocol uses explicit UTF-8 on both sides. PowerShell uses UTF8Encoding($false, $true) for stdin and stdout. Node writes the JSON request as UTF-8 and reads stdout as utf8 with a 16384-character bound.

  1. [#7737] Regression fixture. tests/fixtures/npm-timeout-tree.mjs provides a detached leaf, a held-open stage cwd, and an orphan (early-exit parent) mode. tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts asserts that recorded processes are gone before the first removal and that the stage is removed on confirmed exit. Per the PR, timeout cases use a shortened (2 s) deadline through instrumented helper copies. The default 180 s path is therefore covered by code inspection, not by an automated timeout run.

Scope note: the issue title and reproduction are Windows-only. POSIX complete-tree cleanup is not in this change, and the PR states this. The PR also says it closes #7737. Maintainers should confirm that closing the issue matches the generic expected-behavior text.

Evidence limits: test and check results are author-reported. I did not run tests. The async body of transactional-install.mjs was truncated in my read, so its stage-retention branch rests on the reviewed file summary and the author's tests. I did not verify that src/update/npm-install-job.ps1 is included in the published package. If it is missing at runtime, runNpmInstall fails closed with EINSTALLJOIN. This is a packaging risk to check before merge, not a code defect. The incomplete test:changed run and the missing maintainer security approval are validation and process gaps, not coding requirements of #7737.

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Changed areas map to the #7737 objective:

  • bin/ocx.mjs: Windows npm self-update uses the async transactional updater and runNpmInstall. POSIX keeps the synchronous spawnSync path.
  • src/update/npm-install-job.ps1 and src/update/npm-install.mjs: process-tree supervision and join.
  • src/update/transactional-install.mjs and .d.mts: await, unconfirmed-exit handling, and installer error precedence.
  • tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts, update-npm-supervisor-exit.test.ts, tests/fixtures/npm-timeout-tree.mjs, tests/cli/ocx-launcher-source.test.ts: regression coverage and the awaited-call source check.
  • scripts/test-layout/layout.json and tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json: test registration.
  • docs-site platform-support and troubleshooting pages, structure/runtime.md, structure/ops/service-and-sidecars.md: documentation of the Windows-only behavior and the POSIX limit.

Items to note. None shows an unrelated change:

  • bin/ocx.mjs: runPackageManagerSelfUpdate is now async, so the pnpm caller also awaits. The PR does not state the pnpm behavior explicitly. Reviewers should confirm that pnpm self-update behavior is unchanged.
  • tests/update/update-stop-first.test.ts: the expected count of unprivilegedOwnershipMutationEnvironment uses changes from two to three in the package-replacement section. The PR gives no reason. The link to the new code path is plausible but not documented.
  • The PR description says the change touches MAINTAINERS.md (dependency-installation security boundary). The reviewed file summaries do not list that file. If it changed, it documents the new supervisor boundary and is supporting documentation. Confirm the final file list.
  • No Codex CLI updater or #7154 changes appear in the reviewed summaries.

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$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$utf8 = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding($false, $true)
$reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader([Console]::OpenStandardInput(), $utf8, $false)
$request = $reader.ReadToEnd() | ConvertFrom-Json
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Report a pre-launch helper failure as "no installer ran", not as an unconfirmed tree exit.

An exception in lines 4-6 (stdin read, UTF-8 decode, ConvertFrom-Json) or in Add-Type (line 7) stops the script before NpmInstallJob.Run starts. $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' makes the script exit 1 with no JSON on stdout. Examples are PowerShell Constrained Language Mode, an unwritable %TEMP% for the C# compile, or a policy that blocks Add-Type.

In src/update/npm-install.mjs lines 57-60, the Node wrapper maps this case to failure("npm supervisor did not confirm process-tree exit; stage retained"). That produces processTreeExited: false. In transactionalNpmUpdateAsync, the stage and its ownership marker are then retained, and the log says to stop the installer. No installer was started in this case. The consequences are:

  • Every ocx update attempt on such a host fails.
  • Every attempt leaves a stage directory behind.
  • The message misdirects the operator.

Catch failures that happen before Run is called. Emit the same JSON shape with processTreeExited = $true and a distinct error code. This is safe because nothing was launched at that point. Keep failures inside Run on the existing path.

$utf8 = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding($false, $true)
try {
    $reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader([Console]::OpenStandardInput(), $utf8, $false)
    $request = $reader.ReadToEnd() | ConvertFrom-Json
    Add-Type -TypeDefinition @'
... existing C# unchanged ...
'@
    $args = @([string]$request.file, [string]$request.commandLine, [string]$request.cwd,
        [int]$request.timeoutMs, [int]$request.joinMs)
} catch {
    # Nothing has been launched yet, so there is no process tree to confirm.
    $result = @{ status = $null; processTreeExited = $true
        error = @{ code = 'ESUPERVISOR'; message = $_.Exception.Message } } | ConvertTo-Json -Compress -Depth 4
    $writer = New-Object System.IO.StreamWriter([Console]::OpenStandardOutput(), $utf8)
    $writer.Write($result); $writer.Flush()
    exit 0
}
$result = [NpmInstallJob]::Run($args[0], $args[1], $args[2], $args[3], $args[4]) | ConvertTo-Json -Compress -Depth 4

Keep $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' on line 3. The @' terminator must stay at the start of its line.

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RequireAttribute(CreateProcess(file, new StringBuilder(args), IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero, true,
0x08080004, IntPtr.Zero, cwd, ref startup, out process)); // NO_WINDOW | EXTENDED_STARTUPINFO_PRESENT | SUSPENDED

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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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printf '\n--- focused tests ---\n'
nl -ba tests/update/update-npm-timeout.test.ts | sed -n '125,190p'
printf '\n--- related error mappings ---\n'
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Preserve ordinary CreateProcess errors.

CreateProcess currently passes through RequireAttribute, so missing executables, denied execution, and invalid working directories receive the Windows 10 prerequisite message. The exception handler then reports each failure as EINSTALLJOIN.

A separate CreateProcess path is the correct localized direction. However, the proposed helper alone is insufficient: the current catch block still converts its Win32Exception to EINSTALLJOIN. Preserve the ordinary launch error code and native message through InstallError. Keep the prerequisite diagnostic for attribute setup or confirmed attribute rejection. processTreeExited should remain true when creation fails.

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Separate the CreateProcess call from RequireAttribute so ordinary launch
failures retain their Win32Exception code and native message through
InstallError instead of becoming EINSTALLJOIN. Keep the Windows 10 prerequisite
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Maintainer dev integration record (release 2.93 dev-merge loop). Release-captain decision for a dependency-installation security-boundary change, under the admin decision authority delegated for this release; it rests on the independent security review below and is not an approving review.

  • Exact head: b714fe5; Windows only; POSIX npm spawn path byte-identical to dev.
  • Required CI on the exact head: PR CI run 40284879815 (ci, gates, test 1/4–4/4: success), enforce-target 40284878722: success, hygiene 40285309751: success.
  • Windows-sensitive: Cross-platform CI lane=all on this head, run 40284875083 — windows 1/9–9/9, macos 1/3–3/3, macos control, macos widget + bundle, test 1/4–4/4, ci: success.
  • Independent security review (separate agent): round 1 FIX_THEN_MERGE with 1 blocking issue (the suspended npm root was created before its Job assignment, so a supervisor crash in that window left it unassigned); fixed in b714fe5 by atomic Job assignment at creation (STARTUPINFOEX with JOB_LIST and a restricted HANDLE_LIST, fail closed when unsupported) plus an abrupt-supervisor-exit regression that fails against the round-1 helper. Round 2: PASS, zero blocking; no handle leak over 30 failed creations; HANDLE_LIST admits only stdin/stderr.
  • Maintainer recheck on the head merged onto current origin/dev 820234b: update timeout/supervisor-exit tests plus layout and ratchet guards 51 pass / 0 fail; typecheck exit 0. Earlier combined run on 3b4e04a: update/launcher/transaction suites 118 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail, launcher runtime 85 pass / 0 fail.
  • Open by design: POSIX timeout cleanup keeps its existing behavior; a process group cannot prove exit of detached descendants. Follow-up tracked in [Bug][Windows]: npm update timeout leaves npm running and floods TAR_ENTRY_ERROR after stage cleanup #7737's discussion.

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