Review v2 of #93084: the readable-cmdline path used substring matching
as destructive authority. That fails open on prefix collisions
(--profile timothy vs our profile tim) and same-name profiles under
different roots, so a poisoned record could still reach SIGTERM.
Ownership is now decided by the persisted identity record ALONE — exact
_same_hermes_home equality, bound to the live target by exact pid +
start-time. Missing/legacy/unbound/foreign records all refuse. A
readable argv feeds only a token-exact consistency check
(_looks_like_profile_conflict_from_cmdline via shlex tokens) that
refuses explicit contradictions like --profile timothy under tim; bare
or matching argv adds nothing.
Also fixes the review's source-of-record concern: the guard validates
the record that authorizes get_running_pid()'s answer rather than
assuming {HERMES_HOME}/gateway.pid is always the source.
Adds the requested signal-boundary regression: start_gateway(replace=
True) with unprovable ownership returns False without calling
terminate_pid or writing a takeover marker; the bound same-home
counterpart still reaches the replace flow. Legacy replace-flow tests
updated to stage a valid bound record for their legitimate-replace
fixtures.
many tests patched sys.platform or a module's _IS_WINDOWS flag, then
ran on linux ci. the patch selects the branch under test, but the host
does not have the behavior the branch exists for. the test proves the
patch, not the platform. some gated assertions never ran on any host.
this commit adds three markers: linux_only, macos_only, windows_only.
a conftest hook skips a marked test on the other hosts, with a clear
reason. no test fakes a host now. two documented fakes remain
(android/termux, freebsd) because no ci runner exists for them.
each fake site got one of four treatments:
- gate it: the real host supplies the platform; mocks cover real
dependencies only, never host identity
- patch the module's own probe when the subject is the probe's consumer
- assert against the real host when the fake stood in for any non-x host
- delete the patch when it set the value the host already has
bare skipif(sys.platform != ...) guards became markers too. the lane
model skips these on linux and never imports them on windows, so they
ran on no host. platform parametrize tables are now one marked test
per os.
running on real hosts found real errors: a chrome-sandbox failure in
test_gui_command that main hides, and two windows failures fixed here.
the agents.md testing section now documents the policy.
Second, deeper pass over tools/gateway/hermes_cli plus first pass over
the trees wave 1 missed (acp, acp_adapter, skills, computer_use, docker,
dashboard, conformance, monitoring, secret_sources, hermes_state,
providers). Same rubric as wave 1 (AGENTS.md test policy); security,
alternation/caching invariants, issue-number regressions, and E2E kept.
Real test-quality fixes found and rooted out along the way:
- tests/tools/test_command_guards.py made real auxiliary-LLM HTTPS calls
(DEFAULT_CONFIG smart-approval leaked in) — pinned approval
mode=manual via autouse fixture: 17.4s → 0.4s.
- test_model_switch_custom_providers.py / test_user_providers_model_switch.py
silently probed live provider catalogs (~2s/test) — stubbed
cached_provider_model_ids/provider_model_ids/fetch_api_models.
- test_telegram_noise_filter.py: 15-platform copy-paste matrix over
shared gateway.run logic → 3 representative platforms (55s → 3.9s).
- test_gateway_shutdown.py: stop()'s 5s interrupt-deadline loop spun on
MagicMock agents — interrupt.side_effect now clears _running_agents
(22s → 1.0s).
- test_gateway_inactivity_timeout.py poll-harness timings shrunk 3-5x
(24s → 1.1s); test_mcp_stability.py backoff/SIGTERM-grace sleeps
patched (15.4s → 2.5s); test_async_delegation.py negative-drain wait
5s → 0.5s.
- test_telegram_init_deadline.py: loop-block margin restored to 1.0s
with rationale comment — the watchdog-dump assertion needs the loop
blocked well past deadline+grace under parallel load (flaked once in
the 40-worker verification run at a 0.2s margin).
Verification: full hermetic suite via scripts/run_tests.sh —
2,438 files, 21,718 tests passed, 0 failed, 293.9s wall.
Suite totals vs original baseline: 46,820 → 19,757 test functions
(−57.8%), wall 583.5s → 293.9s (−50%), subprocess CPU 13,564s → 11,623s.
Builds on jbbottoms's #65178 takeover fix (cherry-picked as the previous
commit). Windows --replace already tree-kills via taskkill /T, but the
POSIX paths signalled only the recorded gateway PID — adapter
subprocesses that outlived their parent kept holding scoped token locks
and blocked the replacement gateway.
- gateway/status.py: _snapshot_gateway_children() captures the old
gateway's descendants (psutil, recursive) while it is still alive;
reap_gateway_children() SIGTERMs verified orphans after the main PID
is confirmed dead, waits bounded, SIGKILLs survivors. Identity-aware
(psutil is_running is PID+create-time), skips zombies and children
whose ppid still equals the old gateway (parent actually alive), and
never raises — best-effort with debug/info logging only.
- take_over_scoped_lock_holder() snapshots before terminating and reaps
only on a confirmed successful handoff.
- gateway/run.py: start_gateway --replace snapshots before SIGTERM and
reaps after the old PID is confirmed gone, mirroring taskkill /T.
- tests/gateway/test_replace_child_reap.py: reap/skip/never-raise unit
coverage plus end-to-end --replace ordering (snapshot → terminate →
reap) and the no---replace path never touching the old process.
BrunoBza