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fix(codex): a crashed app-server reports its exit code and stderr again - #48
When Codex's app-server crashed, the thread usually showed a bare pipe error instead of the exit code and stderr line ("Missing optional dependency … Reinstall Codex"). The same race made the fork's CodexAdapterV2 exit test fail under load. Now a broken stdin pipe waits briefly for the exit status, as stdout already did.
stdout ends
wait ≤ 250 ms for the exit status, else InputStreamEndedError
stdin write fails
- TransportError right away ← usually won the race+ wait ≤ 250 ms for the exit status, else TransportError
The second commit moves the fork's real-subprocess exit test to it.live, since the 250 ms grace has to run on wall time. Upstream: issue pingdotgg#30993, PR pingdotgg#30995 (the first commit only).
Evidence
Before: the new protocol.test.ts case "reports a process exit that follows a failed write" fails on dev_vm (it receives CodexAppServerTransportError). Spawning true as the app-server 200 times: with a request in flight, 198 transport errors and 2 exits; with nothing written, 86 transport errors and 114 exits. After: the case passes, and all 50 package tests pass. That includes a second new case, "waits for stderr to drain when the exit status arrives first", added for CodeRabbit's finding (the write path skipped the stdout path's stderr drain). Real processes: 200/200 exits in both setups. The CodexAdapterV2.test.ts file passed 12/12 runs, 4 running in parallel. node scripts/check-changed.ts dev_vm: format, lint, knip, typecheck, and tests all pass.
Merge Danger
Door: two-way
Blast Radius: narrow
Only how a dying Codex app-server is classified changes. When a write fails while the process stays up, pending requests now fail up to 250 ms later instead of at once.
When the app-server dies, its stdin pipe breaks as fast as its stdout ends.
The write path reported the broken pipe at once, so it usually beat the
stdout path, which waits up to 250 ms for the exit status. The thread then
showed a bare transport error instead of the exit code and stderr line that
pingdotgg#23938 added. Both paths now prefer the exit status within the same bound.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The protocol now uses a shared helper to resolve input EOF and output-stream failures. A new test checks process exit after a failed write. An existing app-server exit test now uses it.live.
Changes: Process exit handling
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Exit-status resolution and stream handling packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/protocol.ts
A shared helper waits up to 250 ms for a configured termination error before using a fallback. Input EOF and output-stream failure use the helper.
A protocol test checks that a process-exit error reaches termination and a pending request after a failed write. An existing app-server exit test now uses it.live.
A crashed app-server may report its exit code without the full crash reason. This is a bounded diagnostic risk.
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Review comments at @packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/protocol.ts:
- Line 487: Update the exitStatusOr path to wait for the bounded stderr drain to
finish before makeTerminationError reads the stderr tail, preserving the
existing drain bound. Add a regression case where the exit status arrives before
the stderr drain completes and verify the resulting error includes the drained
crash reason.
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The write-failure path now reads the exit status without the stdout path's
earlier drain wait, and Node can report an exit before stderr closes. The
stderr tail read now waits for the same bounded drain, cached so the stdout
path never waits twice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Summary
When Codex's app-server crashed, the thread usually showed a bare pipe error instead of the exit code and stderr line ("Missing optional dependency … Reinstall Codex"). The same race made the fork's
CodexAdapterV2exit test fail under load. Now a broken stdin pipe waits briefly for the exit status, as stdout already did.The second commit moves the fork's real-subprocess exit test to
it.live, since the 250 ms grace has to run on wall time. Upstream: issue pingdotgg#30993, PR pingdotgg#30995 (the first commit only).Evidence
protocol.test.tscase "reports a process exit that follows a failed write" fails ondev_vm(it receivesCodexAppServerTransportError). Spawningtrueas the app-server 200 times: with a request in flight, 198 transport errors and 2 exits; with nothing written, 86 transport errors and 114 exits.After: the case passes, and all 50 package tests pass. That includes a second new case, "waits for stderr to drain when the exit status arrives first", added for CodeRabbit's finding (the write path skipped the stdout path's stderr drain). Real processes: 200/200 exits in both setups. The
CodexAdapterV2.test.tsfile passed 12/12 runs, 4 running in parallel.node scripts/check-changed.ts dev_vm: format, lint, knip, typecheck, and tests all pass.Merge Danger
Door: two-way
Blast Radius: narrow
Only how a dying Codex app-server is classified changes. When a write fails while the process stays up, pending requests now fail up to 250 ms later instead of at once.
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