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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughLitestream commands now run without a shell, support JSON output, report stderr on failures, enforce timeouts, terminate timed-out process groups, and document and test these behaviors. ChangesLitestream command execution
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant LitestreamCommands
participant Open3
participant LitestreamProcess
LitestreamCommands->>Open3: start command and capture streams
Open3->>LitestreamProcess: execute process
LitestreamProcess-->>Open3: return stdout, stderr, and status
Open3-->>LitestreamCommands: provide captured results
LitestreamCommands->>LitestreamCommands: parse output or raise exception
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Timeouts may fail through Rake or take substantially longer than configured, while descendant cleanup regressions could escape testing. These bounded issues should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@lib/litestream/commands.rb`:
- Line 174: Update the option construction in prepare so every option value is
converted to a string before the flattened argument array is passed to
Open3.capture3 or Open3.popen3, while preserving existing filtering of nil
values and option ordering.
In `@test/litestream/test_commands.rb`:
- Line 974: Update the test around the pid_file read to poll until the file
exists and contains a non-empty PID before converting it with to_i; only then
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In `@lib/litestream/commands.rb`:
- Line 188: Update the process termination flow around kill_process_group and
wait_thread.join so KILL is still sent after the grace period when descendants
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Commands.run joined argv into one shell string, ignored the exit status
and discarded stderr, so a failing command returned "" (or [] after
table parsing) and looked like success. Arguments with spaces broke, and
argv reached the shell unescaped.
The runner now uses Open3.popen3 with an argv array, raises
CommandFailedException with the exit status and stderr on failure, and
takes an explicit output mode: :table (the existing header/rows
parsing), :raw, or :json when a caller passes json: true (Litestream
>= 0.5). In JSON mode the two opt-in restore skips, which print one
logfmt line on stdout with exit 0, come back as {"skipped" => true,
"message" => ...} so callers can tell "did nothing" from data.
timeout: runs the command in its own process group and TERMs then KILLs
it on expiry, raising CommandTimeoutException with the child reaped.
The LITESTREAM_INSTALL_DIR note prints once per process.
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The async path gets its failures from the caller, but the foreground path ran litestream through IO.popen and never looked at $?. `rails litestream:replicate` therefore exited 0 when litestream failed to start, so a supervisor saw a clean stop rather than a crash to restart, and nothing on the way out said why. A signal is still a normal stop: replicate runs until something signals it, so only a non-zero exit raises. replicate's bare rescue re-wrapped every StandardError into a message built from the whole command line, which swallowed the exit status this adds, so CommandFailedException now passes through it untouched.
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- Line 190: Update the three joins in the wait/kill sequence to share one
overall deadline by passing each join the value from the existing remaining-time
calculation (such as remaining.call), preserving unbounded waits when timeout is
nil.
- Line 149: Update the timeout handling in execute so the value removed from
argv is coerced to a Numeric before being passed to run and Thread#join, while
preserving nil when no timeout is provided.
In `@test/litestream/test_commands.rb`:
- Line 930: Update the descendant process command in
test_timeout_kills_a_descendant_that_outlives_the_direct_child so it spawns a
nested shell before writing $$ to the PID file, ensuring the recorded PID
belongs to the long-lived descendant rather than the direct child. Preserve the
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| if Array === results && results.one? && results[0]["level"] == "ERROR" | ||
| raise CommandFailedException, "Failed to execute `#{cmd.join(" ")}`; Reason: #{results[0]["error"]}" | ||
| argv = argv.stringify_keys | ||
| timeout = argv.delete("timeout") |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Coerce timeout before passing it to Thread#join.
Rake parsing stores timeout=30 as a String. execute removes timeout before prepare stringifies command arguments, then passes the string directly to run. Thread#join requires nil or a Numeric timeout, so "30" raises TypeError.
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- timeout = argv.delete("timeout")
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| timeout = argv.delete("timeout") | |
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| # The readers finish when the last process holding the pipes exits, so | ||
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| unless wait_thread.join(timeout) && stdout_reader.join(timeout) && stderr_reader.join(timeout) |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Apply one deadline across the three joins.
Each join receives the full timeout, so the total wait before the kill sequence starts is up to three times timeout. The comment on Line 180 states a single deadline. With timeout: 30 and a child that exits late while a descendant holds the pipes, the caller can block for about 90 seconds.
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- unless wait_thread.join(timeout) && stdout_reader.join(timeout) && stderr_reader.join(timeout)
+ deadline = timeout && Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC) + timeout
+ remaining = -> { deadline && [deadline - Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC), 0].max }
+ unless [wait_thread, stdout_reader, stderr_reader].all? { |thread| thread.join(remaining.call) }remaining.call returns nil when no timeout is set, which keeps the unbounded wait behavior.
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| deadline = timeout && Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC) + timeout | |
| remaining = -> { deadline && [deadline - Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC), 0].max } | |
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| (trap '' TERM; printf '%s\n' "$$" > "$1"; sleep 30) & |
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The descendant regression test asserts on the wrong PID.
In POSIX shells, $$ inside a ( ... ) subshell expands to the invoking shell's PID, not the subshell's PID. The pid file therefore holds the direct child's PID. That process exits at Line 931 and wait_thread reaps it, so Process.kill(0, pid) in test_timeout_kills_a_descendant_that_outlives_the_direct_child raises Errno::ESRCH regardless of whether the KILL reached the descendant. The test cannot fail if the process-group cleanup regresses.
Spawn a new shell so that $$ is the descendant's own PID.
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- (trap '' TERM; printf '%s\n' "$$" > "$1"; sleep 30) &
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First of two to bring the gem to Litestream 0.5. This one stands alone and fixes a bug that exists on 0.3.13 today.
Problem
Commands.runjoined argv into one shell string, ignored the exit status, and discarded stderr. A failing command returned""(or[]after table parsing) and looked like success; arguments with spaces broke; argv reached the shell unescaped.Reproduced against 0.5.17:
ltxon a database that is not in the config exits 1 withError: database not found in configon stderr and nothing on stdout. The old wrapper returned[], indistinguishable from "nothing replicated yet". The 0.3.13 binary uses the same exit and stderr conventions.Change
One process path:
Open3.popen3(*cmd, pgroup: true), argv array, no shell.CommandFailedExceptionwith the command, exit status, and stderr.:table(existing parsing),:raw, or:jsonwhen a caller passesjson: true(Litestream ≥ 0.5). Restore's two opt-in skips (-if-db-not-existson an existing output,-if-replica-existswith no backups) exit 0 and print one logfmt line on stdout even with-json; those return{"skipped" => true, "message" => ...}.timeout:kills the process group (TERM, then KILL after a one-second grace, unconditionally) on expiry and raisesCommandTimeoutExceptionwith the child reaped. The deadline also covers the pipe readers, so a descendant that outlives the direct child is caught.Process.spawnrejects Integers, which the old shell-string runner accepted and the README documents (--parallelism 10).LITESTREAM_INSTALL_DIRnote prints once per process.executeis gone; it only existed because failures were swallowed.Public method signatures and default return shapes are unchanged.
preparestill returns argv.Verified
TestRunnerclass drives a fake executable: table, JSON object/array, empty list, both skip lines, non-zero exit with stderr in the message, an argument containing a space, timeout with reap, timeout with a descendant that ignores TERM, an Integer option value, note printed once.databasesin table and JSON modes,restore -jsonreturning txid, the skip case, a failing restore raising with the stderr message, a 0.2 s timeout killing a sleeping fake with no orphan left.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
json: true.timeout:option.Documentation