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Summary

Fixes a data-loss race in minimald's exec bridge (crates/minimald/src/exec.rs).

The stdin arm of bridge_one raced cs.write_all against client_lost.wait_for in a single tokio::select!. write_all is not cancel-safe: when the client-loss sender is dropped, wait_for resolves Err immediately, and if select! polled that branch first the write future was dropped mid-flight — losing the stdin bytes it had already accepted.

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Pin the write_all future and loop the select! until the write completes. A dropped sender now only disables the client-loss branch (client_watch_open = false); the write always runs to completion, so every stdin byte reaches the child. A genuine client-loss signal still breaks out and kills the child as before.

Verification

  • cargo fmt --all --check — clean
  • cargo clippy --workspace --locked — clean (only pre-existing warnings)
  • cargo build --workspace --locked — clean
  • cargo test --workspace --locked -p minimald --lib — all minimald tests pass, including the 10 exec::tests::bridge_* tests
  • exec::tests::bridge_round_trips_stdio_and_propagates_exit_code (the regression test, which uses a dropped-sender client_lost()) passes repeatedly

Note: the full --workspace test run shows 2 pre-existing failures in crates/checkouts (checkout_of_branch_from_a_stale_manager_does_not_collide, offline_checkout_of_branch_from_a_legacy_cache_uses_the_local_ref), unrelated to this change.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented accepted input from being lost when a client disconnects during a write to the child process. A signaled disconnect still marks the SSH write path as failed and terminates the child; write errors still close the child’s input.

The stdin arm of bridge_one raced cs.write_all against
client_lost.wait_for in a single tokio::select!. write_all is not
cancel-safe: when the client-loss sender is dropped, wait_for resolves
Err immediately, and if select! polled that branch first the write
future was dropped mid-flight, losing the bytes it had already accepted.

Pin the write future and loop the select until it completes. A dropped
sender now only disables the client-loss branch; the write always runs
to completion, so every stdin byte reaches the child.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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The child-stdin write loop now pins each write and polls it until completion. A signaled disconnect still marks the SSH write path as failed, while a dropped watch sender disables that branch. Write errors still close the child’s stdin.

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Child stdin write handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Complete child-stdin writes
crates/minimald/src/exec.rs
The loop polls each pinned write to completion. A signaled disconnect marks the SSH write path as failed; a dropped watch sender disables that branch. Write errors close child stdin.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: norrietaylor

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 33b9b

Exec commands that write output while receiving input can hang. Keep output draining while a stdin write is pending before merging.

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A rabbit watches bytes go by,
While pinned writes finish, none slip by.
A signal marks the path as failed,
A quiet watch leaves that branch curtailed.
The child’s stdin closes on error,
Then hops away, content as ever.

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Review comments at @crates/minimald/src/exec.rs:
- Around line 1179-1184: In the exec loop, keep pending child-stdin bytes and
their write offset in the outer select loop instead of awaiting write_all in the
stdin-read branch. This lets stdout and stderr reads continue while the
child-stdin write is pending; preserve partial-write progress and ensure a
genuine client-loss signal still reaches the child-kill path.

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Approved at 33b9b5d. This is the fix specified in gominimal/inbox#860. The pinned write_all with a looping select means a dropped client-loss sender only disables that branch and never cancels a write, and a real disconnect still breaks out and kills the child. CI is green apart from macOS e2e, which is waiting on the runner backlog. CodeRabbit's head-of-line blocking finding predates this PR and is tracked in gominimal/inbox#866.

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