fix(ios): a linger sleeper may not close a window it does not own - #519
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endLinger() does not cancel the 25s sleeper, so leaving and returning near the end of one background window lets the first sleeper wake during the second and end it early — dropping the stream while the user still expects the grace period, so an approval arriving in those seconds never lands. The UIKit expiration handler carried no window identity either. A generation counter, incremented only when a window opens, is captured by both and checked on wake. Session is @mainactor, so there is no suspension between the guard and disconnect() for the check to race. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SkWZ3y7iKQMjH6tHNFBte7
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In `@ios/App/Session.swift`:
- Around line 400-405: Update the linger task flow around beginBackgroundTask
and the delayed Task so an invalid UIKit background-task identifier triggers
disconnect() immediately instead of being skipped by the
lingerGeneration/lingerTask guard. Preserve the existing generation check and
delayed cleanup behavior for valid tasks.
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| Task { [weak self] in | ||
| try? await Task.sleep(for: .seconds(25)) | ||
| guard let self, self.lingerTask != .invalid else { return } | ||
| guard let self, | ||
| self.lingerGeneration == generation, | ||
| self.lingerTask != .invalid | ||
| else { return } |
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For the repository's supported iOS deployment targets, can UIApplication.beginBackgroundTask(withName:expirationHandler:) return UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier.invalid while the process can still execute the 25-second Swift Task.sleep, and should the caller still run its cleanup fallback?
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Yes, UIApplication.beginBackgroundTask(withName:expirationHandler:) can return UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier.invalid, even while your app process is still active and capable of executing code like Task.sleep [1][2][3]. When this method returns UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier.invalid, it indicates that the system is unable to grant the request for additional background execution time [1][2][3]. This typically happens if the system is under heavy resource pressure or if the app is already in a state where background execution is not permitted [2][3]. If the method returns an invalid identifier, you have not been granted an assertion, and the system may suspend your app shortly after it enters the background [2][3]. In this scenario: 1. You should not rely on the background task to keep your process alive [2]. 2. You do not need to call endBackgroundTask(_:) because no valid task was created [4][5]. 3. You should still consider whether your cleanup fallback is necessary [5]. Since the background task failed, your app is at high risk of being suspended or terminated by the watchdog mechanism sooner than it would have been otherwise [2][3]. Running your cleanup logic immediately—even if the task didn't start—is a safe and often recommended practice to ensure state consistency before the system potentially suspends the application [5]. It is best practice to always check if the returned identifier is not equal to UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier.invalid before proceeding with logic that relies on the background task [4][5][6]. If it is invalid, you can treat it as an immediate signal that your background work cannot proceed, allowing you to trigger your cleanup or cancellation path immediately [5].
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- 1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplication/beginbackgroundtask(expirationhandler:)
- 2: https://dev.to/tejeshwargill/all-about-handling-background-tasks-in-ios-13-4gc0
- 3: https://apple-docs.everest.mt/docs/uikit/uiapplication/beginbackgroundtask(expirationhandler:)/
- 4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73581588/how-do-you-execute-code-when-scene-goes-to-background-using-new-swift-async-awai
- 5: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10319643/proper-use-of-beginbackgroundtaskwithexpirationhandler
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64718571/beginbackgroundtask-expirationhandler-never-called
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Handle an invalid UIKit background task.
If beginBackgroundTask(...) returns .invalid, lingerTask stays invalid. When the 25-second sleeper resumes, the guard exits without calling disconnect(). Disconnect immediately when the UIKit task is invalid, or track linger activity separately.
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In `@ios/App/Session.swift` around lines 400 - 405, Update the linger task flow
around beginBackgroundTask and the delayed Task so an invalid UIKit
background-task identifier triggers disconnect() immediately instead of being
skipped by the lingerGeneration/lingerTask guard. Preserve the existing
generation check and delayed cleanup behavior for valid tasks.
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Closing this — #499 was already open for #469 and gets there first. I should have looked before opening a second one; my apologies for the noise. Having read that diff: cancelling the stored One thing I noticed while working on the same code, offered as a question rather than a claim, because I could not check it here — no Swift toolchain on this machine: The UIKit expiration handler in Worth thirty seconds of someone's attention who knows that API better than I do; not worth another PR from me either way. Found while porting the companion to Android, where the equivalent code is in a testable module and the rule is covered by tests. That port is #513. |
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Fixes #469.
What happens
linger()starts a 25-second sleeper andendLinger()does not cancel it. A round trip near the end of one window — leave, come back, leave again — lets the first window's sleeper wake up during the second one and end it early. The stream drops while the user believes they still have the grace period, so an approval or a finished-turn notification arriving in those seconds never lands.The UIKit expiration handler had the same shape: it captured no window identity, so an expiration belonging to a finished window could disconnect a live one.
The fix
A generation counter, incremented only when a window actually opens. Both the sleeper and the expiration handler capture it and act only if it is still current and a window is still open. A sleeper from window A wakes during window B, sees a generation that is no longer its own, and returns.
Sessionis@MainActor, so there is no suspension point between the guard anddisconnect()— the check cannot be raced. The oldTaskis deliberately left to finish its sleep rather than being stored and cancelled: with the guard in place it is inert, and keeping a handle would add state to buy nothing but an earlier wake-up.About tests
There are none, and I would rather say so than imply otherwise.
Session.swiftlives inios/App/, andios/Package.swiftbuilds and tests onlyios/Sources/CompanionCore, soswift testcannot reach it. Thexcodebuildstep compiles it but does not exercise it. Moving the lifecycle policy intoCompanionCorepurely to make it testable would be a much larger change than the fix, in a shipped app, and that is your call rather than mine.The scenario a test would need to drive, if that ever happens: open window A and suspend its sleeper near 25s; call
connect()to end A; open window B before A's sleeper resumes; resume A and assert the stream and B are still alive; then let B expire on its own schedule and assert only that disconnects.Found while porting this behaviour to Android, where the same rule is covered by tests because the equivalent code sits in a testable module.
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