Fix agent session discovery: surface real errors, fix output capture - #398
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Windows PowerShell tears down its stdout/stderr handles a few milliseconds before the process object transitions to signaled, so the single try_wait() in finish_child() saw Ok(None) even though the process had exited with code 0. The old teardown path killed the just-finished child and returned a None exit code, which made agent session discovery report 'Windows process discovery failed; verify PowerShell and CIM access' on every scan while discarding the perfectly valid ~30-84KB CIM JSON payload (issue #396). finish_child() now polls try_wait() on a bounded 250ms grace period before falling back to kill/teardown, preserving the real exit code. Also improve the discovery failure message to surface the actual exit code and a redacted stderr tail instead of the generic hint, per the reporter's ask, and add a regression test that captures >64KB of PowerShell output end-to-end.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWindows command execution now captures stdout and stderr separately, waits briefly for natural process completion, and preserves available exit status. Windows process discovery now reports parse failures and bounded, sanitized stderr diagnostics. ChangesWindows process discovery
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The exit-handling fix may let commands continue for up to about 250 ms after a configured timeout, idle timeout, or stop request. This is a bounded runtime behavior and is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AgentSessions
participant CommandRunner
participant PowerShell
participant WindowsProcessOutputParser
AgentSessions->>CommandRunner: Run process-discovery command
CommandRunner->>PowerShell: Execute PowerShell
PowerShell-->>CommandRunner: Return stdout, stderr, and exit status
CommandRunner-->>AgentSessions: Provide command result
AgentSessions->>WindowsProcessOutputParser: Parse stdout
WindowsProcessOutputParser-->>AgentSessions: Return records or parse error
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In `@rust/src/agent_sessions.rs`:
- Line 394: Update CommandRunner::capture_output and CommandResult to retain a
bounded stderr field even when stderr capture is disabled, then use that field
instead of result.text when constructing stderr_tail in the agent-session
failure path. Preserve existing safe error-message handling and output limits.
In `@rust/src/host/command_runner.rs`:
- Line 577: Guard the PowerShell-specific test in command_runner.rs by adding a
Windows-only configuration attribute immediately above its #[test] attribute, so
the test is compiled and run only on Windows.
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In `@rust/src/host/command_runner.rs`:
- Line 161: Update capture_output and the surrounding command execution flow so
it returns a completion reason, distinguishing normal completion after both
output streams reach EOF from deadline, idle-timeout, and stop-condition exits.
In the caller near finish_child, invoke the grace-period polling only for normal
EOF completion; for all timeout or stop-condition reasons, terminate and reap
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| let (output, timed_out) = self.capture_output(&mut child, options, deadline)?; | ||
| let (output, stderr, timed_out) = self.capture_output(&mut child, options, deadline)?; | ||
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| let exit_code = Self::finish_child(&mut child); |
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Apply the grace period only after both streams reach EOF.
capture_output also returns after the deadline, an idle timeout, or a stop condition. Line 161 then always calls finish_child, which can wait 250 ms before termination. A command with a 100 ms timeout can continue running for about 350 ms. Return a capture-completion reason and poll only after both streams close. Kill and reap immediately for deadline, idle-timeout, and stop-condition exits.
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In `@rust/src/host/command_runner.rs` at line 161, Update capture_output and the
surrounding command execution flow so it returns a completion reason,
distinguishing normal completion after both output streams reach EOF from
deadline, idle-timeout, and stop-condition exits. In the caller near
finish_child, invoke the grace-period polling only for normal EOF completion;
for all timeout or stop-condition reasons, terminate and reap the child
immediately.
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Closes #396.
Root cause
CommandRunner::finish_child(rust/src/host/command_runner.rs) calledchild.try_wait()exactly once after the stdout/stderr reader threads finished. On Windows, PowerShell 5.1 tears down its console handles a few milliseconds before the process object transitions to signaled — measured with a standalone probe: both pipes EOF at ~358ms,try_wait()returnsOk(None), actual exit (code 0) lands at ~370ms.So on every successful scan the runner took the
Ok(None)branch: it killed the just-finished child and returnedNoneas the exit code.LocalAgentSessionScanner::scanthen matchedexit_code == Some(0)→ false → the generic "Windows process discovery failed; verify PowerShell and CIM access" error, while discarding the perfectly valid ~30–84KB CIM JSON payload. That is why Procmon showed a clean exit 0 with zero ACCESS DENIED while CodexBar still failed: the bug is in the Rust exit-code readback, not in PowerShell/CIM.Fix
finish_childnow pollstry_wait()on a bounded 250ms grace period (10ms steps) before falling back to kill/teardown, preserving the real exit code.safe_error_message), replacing the generic hint — the reporter's ask.large_capture_is_not_truncatedruns the realpowershell.exeand asserts >64KB (90,000 chars) of output is captured intact with exit code 0.Verification
cargo build: OKcargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings: OKcargo test: 1359 passed, 0 failedcodexbar sessionson a live Windows host now lists process-backed sessions (pi/codex/claude) with no discovery error, previously always errored.Summary by CodeRabbit