fix: Do not exit MCP if the parent process is alive - #770
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughfff-mcp adds Unix and Windows parent-process monitoring. The watchdog exits after parent termination, coordinates idle-timeout behavior, and delays exit for log flushing. The idle-timeout default increases to 3600 seconds. Integration tests cover these flows. ChangesMCP lifecycle monitoring
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The MCP parent-liveness logic may miss a parent that exits during startup, potentially leaving the MCP process running unexpectedly, while the integration test does not wait long enough to exercise the watchdog. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and validation issues to be addressed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
participant fff_mcp
participant Watchdog
participant ParentWatcher
MCPClient->>fff_mcp: initialize
fff_mcp->>ParentWatcher: create watcher
fff_mcp->>Watchdog: start lifecycle monitoring
Watchdog->>ParentWatcher: check parent liveness
ParentWatcher-->>Watchdog: return parent status
Watchdog-->>fff_mcp: continue or schedule shutdown
fff_mcp-->>MCPClient: close after parent termination
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In `@crates/fff-mcp/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 165-170: Update the help text for the idle-timeout-secs argument
to accurately state that inactivity does not cause exit while ParentWatcher
reports the parent process is alive; remove the claim that the watchdog exits
despite a live parent.
- Line 325: Move the ParentWatcher::new() call to the start of main, before
repository setup and the MCP initialize handshake, and retain that watcher
variable through startup until the watchdog begins. Ensure the watchdog uses
this originally captured watcher so a launch-parent exit before initialization
is detected correctly.
In `@crates/fff-mcp/src/parent.rs`:
- Line 9: Re-export the private implementation type from parent.rs by adding a
public use of imp::ParentWatcher, so main.rs can access it as
parent::ParentWatcher without changing the internal imp module.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/fff-mcp/src/parent.rs` at line 97: The same missing
public re-export is also visible at the module's type definition boundary.
In `@crates/fff-mcp/tests/parent_liveness.rs`:
- Around line 81-87: Increase the deadline used by the parent-liveness test loop
around stdout_lines.recv_timeout so it exceeds one TICK interval from the
watchdog plus sufficient shutdown margin. Preserve the existing timeout panic
and disconnected handling while ensuring the test allows fff-mcp to exit after
the parent process dies.
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closes #703 Bumped inactivity timeout to an hour and make it actually check every minute if parent is alive and working
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47-105: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd Windows parent-termination coverage.
exits_when_parent_dies_even_without_idle_timeoutdoes not run on Windows. The Windows parent watcher has no equivalent integration test for parent termination. Add a Windows variant with the same bounded exit assertion.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/fff-mcp/tests/parent_liveness.rs`:
- Around line 47-105: Add a Windows-specific variant of
exits_when_parent_dies_even_without_idle_timeout that launches an intermediary
parent, completes the handshake, signals the parent to terminate, and verifies
fff-mcp exits within a bounded timeout while stdin remains open. Use
Windows-compatible process control and preserve the existing log assertion for
the parent-death shutdown reason.
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Sync of dmtrKovalenko/fff (b71b7cf..be2dd8d). Notable upstream work: LMDB env lifecycle overhaul — one shared env per canonical path per process (dmtrKovalenko#775) plus a new env_pool with raised max_readers to avoid MDB_READERS_FULL (dmtrKovalenko#783); standalone constraints in multi_grep (dmtrKovalenko#753); a parent-liveness watcher so the MCP no longer exits while its parent is alive (dmtrKovalenko#770); file-picker rebuild after FFFClearCache (dmtrKovalenko#772); readOnlyHint on all tools (dmtrKovalenko#771); and pi-fff global config (dmtrKovalenko#790). Why these resolutions: - Version: our workspace is 0.18.0; upstream bumped 0.10.3 -> 0.10.5. Kept 0.18.0 in every Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock version conflict while preserving upstream's non-version additions (zlob =1.6.3, fff-core crate-type = ["rlib"], fff-mcp windows-sys target dep for the new Windows parent watcher). - dbs/ module: the dbs/ reorg already lives in our shared merge base, so this sync only adds upstream's new env_pool.rs (additive, no rename conflict). Our eviction feature already targets dbs/. - dmtrKovalenko#775 shared-env x our idle/stale root eviction (f40b086): verified compatible. Eviction drops EngineState (hence FrecencyTracker's SharedEnv) via Drop only — it never calls SharedEnv::destroy and never deletes on-disk data.mdb (the only file removal in env_pool is the size-cap guard). Dropping the last holder closes the env; a re-register reopens the same canonical path from the process pool, so per-slug frecency persists across an evict -> re-register cycle. Eviction machinery unchanged: last_access_ms stamping, drop_root's Arc::strong_count>1 live-connection guard, the reaper phases, idle_root_ttl_secs config, RootHealth.last_access_age_sec (kept the appended-LAST field for bincode order), and the ctl IDLE column. - fff-mcp/Cargo.toml: unioned our fff-ipc/dirs/libc deps, clap_complete, and [package.metadata.deb] with upstream's new windows-sys target block; dev tempfile pinned to upstream's 3.8. - fff-mcp/src/main.rs: kept our set-log-level/completions args and added upstream's `mod parent;`, taking upstream's reworded idle-timeout doc comment. - multi_pattern.rs: three-way merge kept both our `recheck` field and upstream's prefilter_files standalone-constraint path. - Makefile: unioned upstream's build-e2e target with our daemon targets. - release.yaml: kept our publishing guards (PyPI gated to upstream's owner; crates.io and npm disabled via `if: false`). - install-mcp.sh: kept the pinned-tag + SHA256 block removed (we ship via Homebrew/apt); upstream's re-add discarded. Build: cargo build -p fff-mcp -p fff-engine -p fff-ctl green. Tests: 480 passed / 0 failed across fff-search, fff-engine, fff-ipc, fff-ctl, including lmdb_env_pool (4), lmdb_readers_full_repro (2), and lmdb_stale_lock_deadlock (4).
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Second stable release. Captures the idle/stale on-demand-root eviction feature and two upstream syncs since 0.18.0 (4-commit + 17-commit rounds), including LMDB shared-env-per-path (dmtrKovalenko#775), raised max_readers (dmtrKovalenko#783), multi_grep standalone constraints (dmtrKovalenko#753), and MCP parent-liveness (dmtrKovalenko#770).
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closes #703
Bumped inactivity timeout to an hour and make it actually check every minute if parent is alive and working
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