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Fixes #143 (coverage follow-up to #161).

Compare vs #161

#161 already landed the helper fix this PR originally shipped, and more:

Concern This PR (original) #161 on main
Placeholder timer join before ReleaseSurfaces yes (cancel handler at stop) yes, and the handler is installed before dispatch_resume (avoids abort on strict sources)
Shutdown joins sources on gSourceQueue yes yes, plus gShuttingDown so SwitchSource cannot start a new timer
Video loop wait-forever on process exit yes (1s cap kept for hot-swap) yes, same split
Listen-socket cancel-then-close race (EV_VANISHED / DISPATCH_CLIENT_CRASH) no yes
SIGPIPE ignore no yes
Webcam stopRunning kept on the main thread no (called it on gSourceQueue) yes — avoids the AVCapture deadlock
shm-probe reports terminating signal yes yes

Rebased onto current main. The helper file is now identical to main; this PR only keeps the extra test coverage.

What remains

Six isolated start/shutdown cycles in shm-probe.integration.test.ts. Each cycle waits for frameSeq to advance (the first PublishFrame is synchronous; the 30fps timer does not fire for ~33ms) and then sends { action: "shutdown" }, asserting exit 0. Test timeout is 70s so the combined per-cycle bind / frameSeq / shutdown budgets cannot expire a successful run.

Verification

  • bun run typecheck — pass
  • oxlint on the test file — pass
  • bun test --max-concurrency=1 packages/serve-sim/src/__tests__/shm-probe.integration.test.ts — 10 skip / 0 fail on Linux (helper is Darwin-only)
  • macOS sim-test CI will rebuild the helper and run the new describe
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  • Tests
    • Increased the shutdown-race integration test timeout to allow more time for all six shutdown cycles to complete.

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The helper now validates ring surfaces before publication and synchronizes timer cancellation and source teardown during shutdown. Integration tests capture signal failures and repeat the placeholder shutdown race across six isolated cycles.

Changes

Shutdown race hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Frame publication and source teardown
packages/serve-sim/Sources/SimCameraHelper/main.m
PublishFrame skips null surfaces and validates the selected surface before updating gWriteIndex. Placeholder timer cancellation waits for completion. Source teardown runs synchronously on gSourceQueue when available.
Shutdown race integration coverage
packages/serve-sim/src/__tests__/shm-probe.integration.test.ts
Shutdown diagnostics include exit codes and signals. A six-cycle test verifies clean exit during in-flight placeholder frame publication and cleans up failed processes and shared memory.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6b27a

The longer timeout accommodates the stated cycle budget; no identified issue prevents merging after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 89931

The revised shutdown protects against an in-flight frame using released surfaces, but a concurrent webcam switch may leave shutdown waiting indefinitely. Access is limited to the helper’s local control socket; the webcam interleaving has not been demonstrated at runtime.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: An in-progress switch away from webcam may require main-queue progress while shutdown blocks the main thread waiting for the source queue. If so, the helper cannot finish stopping capture or releasing its resources.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified shutdown risk is confined by the evidenced interface to a helper process and clients permitted to use its local socket; no remotely reachable entrypoint or cross-system propagation is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A permitted local client could race a webcam switch with shutdown. If webcam stopRunning waits for main-queue work, the new main-thread source-queue join could prevent shutdown from completing and defer capture termination and resource cleanup. Runtime confirmation of that wait cycle is missing.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Socket permissions restrict command access, and the shutdown flag rejects switches reaching the source queue after it is set. Neither control cancels a switch already executing on that queue.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Waiting for the timer cancel handler and joining the active video loop before surface release strengthens the publication-before-release ordering. The test’s command client closes after the reply, so it does not establish behavior for persistent clients during teardown.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Ensure shutdown cannot block the main thread waiting for a source operation that may itself require main-queue progress; validate that ordering with an overlapping webcam-switch shutdown scenario.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #143 identifies intermittent signal exits during SimCameraHelper shutdown. The PR adds six isolated helper cycles. Each cycle waits for frameSeq to advance, sends { action: "shutdown" }, a…
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In `@packages/serve-sim/Sources/SimCameraHelper/main.m`:
- Line 952: Update the shutdown flow around StopVideoSource so it waits for
RunVideoLoop to fully exit before clearing gVideoStopped or invoking
ReleaseSurfaces. Ensure the wait covers any loop still able to reach
PublishFrame, while preserving the existing stop behavior.

In `@packages/serve-sim/src/__tests__/shm-probe.integration.test.ts`:
- Around line 464-465: Update the integration test around StartPlaceholderSource
and PublishFrame to add a test-only entry barrier: signal when the timer
callback enters PublishFrame, then block that callback until shutdown begins.
Await the entry signal instead of using the fixed 20 ms delay, and release the
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Comment thread packages/serve-sim/Sources/SimCameraHelper/main.m Outdated
Comment on lines +464 to +465
// One 30fps tick is 33ms; sit in the middle so PublishFrame is live.
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20));

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Enter PublishFrame deterministically before shutdown.

StartPlaceholderSource schedules the first timer callback one 30fps interval after source startup. The test binds the socket only after source startup, then waits 20 ms. This delay does not prove that the timer callback entered PublishFrame; each cycle can still shut down while the timer is idle. Add a test-only entry barrier that signals callback entry and blocks it until shutdown starts.

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In `@packages/serve-sim/src/__tests__/shm-probe.integration.test.ts` around lines
464 - 465, Update the integration test around StartPlaceholderSource and
PublishFrame to add a test-only entry barrier: signal when the timer callback
enters PublishFrame, then block that callback until shutdown begins. Await the
entry signal instead of using the fixed 20 ms delay, and release the barrier as
part of shutdown so the test deterministically exercises an active PublishFrame.

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Status note: CI on this branch was green (lint/typecheck/sim-test) when last run, but the PR is now dirty vs current main. Meanwhile #161 landed on main with overlapping camera-helper shutdown hardening (listen-socket cancel wait + placeholder join + SIGPIPE ignore) aimed at the same #143 family. This branch may still be useful as additional test coverage / alternate hardening — please rebase or compare vs #161 before merging; not closing.

#161 already landed the helper join, listen-socket cancel wait, and
SIGPIPE ignore for #143. Keep extra shm-probe coverage: six isolated
start/shutdown cycles that wait for frameSeq to advance so shutdown
races a live 30fps timer rather than the idle gap after start.

Co-authored-by: Evan Bacon <baconbrix@gmail.com>
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@cursor cursor Bot changed the title fix(serve-sim): wait for placeholder timer before helper shutdown test(serve-sim): add in-flight camera helper shutdown cycles Sep 26, 2026

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Six cycles can spend 5s + 2s + 3s each on bind, frameSeq, and
shutdown waits. 30s expired even when every wait succeeded.

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Maintenance (2026-09-27): correction to yesterday’s “dirty” note — after the post-#161 rebase this PR is now mergeable_state=clean. CI green (lint / typecheck / unit / sim-test). Helper file matches main; remaining delta is the six-cycle shm-probe coverage for #143. Ready for Evan merge decision; not merging from bot.

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Flaky: SimCameraHelper shm probe — helper exits with a signal during shutdown (bisected to 14ad57f)

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