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kshitijk4poor 905fdda100 fix(conformance): make the journal-mode matrix honest — steer the child resolver, audit the effective mode
Salvage round on the Phase 1 skeleton (three findings from review):

1. The DELETE leg was silently upgraded to WAL on healthy SQLite:
   pre-seeding the file via PRAGMA was undone by SessionDB.__init__'s
   apply_wal_with_fallback(), which upgrades any non-WAL file whenever
   the configured mode (default wal) says so — only WAL-reset-vulnerable
   interpreters preserved DELETE, i.e. the leg tested the advertised
   mode only where CI wasn't running. Each matrix leg now pins
   database.journal_mode in an isolated HERMES_HOME for the child and
   audits the ON-DISK mode after the run (effective_mode_or_skip):
   a leg that ran in a different mode skips instead of double-counting.

2. Cell 2 exit-code conflation: a claimant crashing with an unhandled
   exception exits 1 — indistinguishable from the clean "lost the
   claim" exit(1), so one winner + seven crashes passed as consume-once
   proof. Codes are now disjoint (0=won, 10=lost, anything else=crash).

3. Crashed-writer diagnostics: wait_for now fails immediately with the
   child's stderr when the writer dies before reaching the kill window
   (was: 60s opaque deadline, stderr discarded). spawn_child prepends
   to an inherited PYTHONPATH instead of clobbering it.

Plus: dead `if False` scaffolding removed from cell 1's writer; README
matrix section corrected (cell 2 is default-mode-only by design — the
consume-once property rests on a single predicated UPDATE).
2026-08-24 15:54:23 +05:30

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"""Shared harness for the crash/resume persistence conformance cells (#80921).
Method (per the spot-probes in the tracking issue): real ``SessionDB``
against an isolated temp database, real ``SIGKILL`` delivered to a separate
OS process mid-write, deterministic and LLM-free. Every wait has a hard
deadline so a wedged child can never hang the suite; coordination uses file
barriers, never bare sleeps.
Journal-mode policy mirrors the issue's caveat: cells run on the mode the
repo's own ``resolve_journal_mode()`` selects for this interpreter/filesystem
(recorded per cell), plus an explicit ``DELETE`` run; an explicit ``WAL`` run
is attempted and skipped when the resolver's downgrade gates trip (e.g. the
WAL-reset interpreter bug), so WAL semantics are probed exactly where they
are actually deployable.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
import signal
import sqlite3
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path
REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[3]
# Generous deadlines: xdist-loaded CI boxes stall; correctness never depends
# on these being tight, they only bound a hung child.
CHILD_DEADLINE = 60.0
POLL_INTERVAL = 0.02
def spawn_child(script_body: str, *, cwd: Path | None = None, env: dict | None = None) -> subprocess.Popen:
"""Run ``script_body`` in a fresh interpreter with the repo importable."""
child_env = dict(os.environ)
# Prepend, don't clobber: CI images may rely on an inherited PYTHONPATH
# for dependencies — losing it would fail child imports while the parent
# collects fine, surfacing only as an opaque wait_for deadline.
inherited = child_env.get("PYTHONPATH")
child_env["PYTHONPATH"] = (
f"{REPO_ROOT}{os.pathsep}{inherited}" if inherited else str(REPO_ROOT)
)
child_env["PYTHONUNBUFFERED"] = "1"
if env:
child_env.update(env)
return subprocess.Popen(
[sys.executable, "-c", script_body],
cwd=str(cwd or REPO_ROOT),
env=child_env,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
)
def wait_for(
predicate,
*,
deadline: float = CHILD_DEADLINE,
what: str = "condition",
child: "subprocess.Popen | None" = None,
) -> None:
"""Poll ``predicate`` until true or fail loudly at the deadline.
When ``child`` is given and it exits before the predicate turns true,
fail IMMEDIATELY with its captured stderr — a crashed writer must be an
instant diagnostic, not a 60s opaque deadline.
"""
end = time.monotonic() + deadline
while time.monotonic() < end:
if predicate():
return
if child is not None and child.poll() is not None:
err = b""
if child.stderr is not None:
err = child.stderr.read() or b""
raise AssertionError(
f"child exited early (rc={child.returncode}) while waiting "
f"for {what}; stderr:\n{err.decode(errors='replace')[-2000:]}"
)
time.sleep(POLL_INTERVAL)
raise AssertionError(f"deadline ({deadline}s) waiting for {what}")
def kill9_and_reap(proc: subprocess.Popen, *, deadline: float = CHILD_DEADLINE) -> None:
"""SIGKILL ``proc`` and reap it within ``deadline``."""
try:
proc.kill() # SIGKILL on POSIX
except ProcessLookupError:
pass
proc.wait(timeout=deadline)
def reap(proc: subprocess.Popen, *, deadline: float = CHILD_DEADLINE) -> tuple[int, str, str]:
"""Wait for a child to exit on its own; kill + fail if it doesn't."""
try:
out, err = proc.communicate(timeout=deadline)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
proc.kill()
out, err = proc.communicate(timeout=10)
raise AssertionError(
f"child did not exit within {deadline}s; stderr:\n"
f"{err.decode(errors='replace')[-2000:]}"
)
return proc.returncode, out.decode(errors="replace"), err.decode(errors="replace")
def on_disk_journal_mode(db_path: Path) -> str:
"""Record the journal mode actually in effect for a cell result."""
conn = sqlite3.connect(str(db_path))
try:
row = conn.execute("PRAGMA journal_mode").fetchone()
return str(row[0]) if row else "unknown"
finally:
conn.close()
def integrity_ok(db_path: Path) -> bool:
conn = sqlite3.connect(str(db_path))
try:
row = conn.execute("PRAGMA integrity_check").fetchone()
return bool(row) and str(row[0]).lower() == "ok"
finally:
conn.close()
def make_hermes_home(base: Path, journal_mode: str) -> Path:
"""Create an isolated HERMES_HOME whose config pins ``database.journal_mode``.
The journal-mode matrix legs must steer the CHILD's own resolver:
pre-seeding the DB file alone is not enough, because ``SessionDB.__init__``
runs ``apply_wal_with_fallback()`` which upgrades a non-WAL file to WAL
whenever the configured mode (default ``wal``) says so — on healthy
SQLite the DELETE leg would silently run in WAL.
"""
home = base / f"hermes-home-{journal_mode}"
home.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
(home / "config.yaml").write_text(
f"database:\n journal_mode: {journal_mode}\n", encoding="utf-8"
)
return home
def effective_mode_or_skip(db_path: Path, requested_mode: str | None) -> str:
"""Record the on-disk journal mode; skip if a requested leg wasn't honored.
A leg that ran in a different mode than advertised must never count as
green evidence for the advertised mode.
"""
import pytest
mode = on_disk_journal_mode(db_path)
if requested_mode is not None and mode.upper() != requested_mode.upper():
pytest.skip(
f"journal_mode={requested_mode} not honored by this environment "
f"(effective {mode}) — matrix leg not probeable here"
)
return mode