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mecha10_runtime/
process.rs

1//! External process management for node lifecycle
2//!
3//! This module provides process management for external node processes (spawned as child processes),
4//! complementing the Supervisor which manages in-process NodeRunner implementations.
5
6use crate::shutdown::ShutdownHandle;
7use anyhow::Result;
8use std::collections::HashMap;
9use std::process::Child;
10use std::time::Duration;
11use tracing::{debug, error, info, warn};
12
13/// Information about a tracked process
14#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
15pub struct ProcessInfo {
16    /// Process name
17    pub name: String,
18    /// Process ID
19    pub pid: u32,
20    /// Current status
21    pub status: ProcessStatus,
22}
23
24/// Process status
25#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
26pub enum ProcessStatus {
27    /// Process is running
28    Running,
29    /// Process exited with code
30    Exited(i32),
31    /// Process encountered an error
32    Error,
33}
34
35/// Manages external child processes with graceful shutdown and dependency ordering
36///
37/// ProcessManager tracks and manages child processes spawned as external binaries.
38/// It provides:
39/// - Process tracking with PIDs
40/// - Dependency-based shutdown ordering
41/// - Graceful shutdown with configurable timeout
42/// - Force kill fallback
43/// - Integration with runtime's ShutdownHandle
44pub struct ProcessManager {
45    /// Tracked child processes
46    processes: HashMap<String, Child>,
47    /// Dependency graph: node -> dependencies
48    dependency_graph: HashMap<String, Vec<String>>,
49    /// Shutdown handle for coordinating graceful shutdown
50    shutdown_handle: Option<ShutdownHandle>,
51    /// Default shutdown timeout
52    shutdown_timeout: Duration,
53}
54
55impl ProcessManager {
56    /// Create a new process manager
57    pub fn new() -> Self {
58        Self {
59            processes: HashMap::new(),
60            dependency_graph: HashMap::new(),
61            shutdown_handle: None,
62            shutdown_timeout: Duration::from_secs(10),
63        }
64    }
65
66    /// Create a new process manager with shutdown handle
67    pub fn with_shutdown_handle(shutdown_handle: ShutdownHandle) -> Self {
68        Self {
69            processes: HashMap::new(),
70            dependency_graph: HashMap::new(),
71            shutdown_handle: Some(shutdown_handle),
72            shutdown_timeout: Duration::from_secs(10),
73        }
74    }
75
76    /// Add a process to track
77    ///
78    /// # Arguments
79    ///
80    /// * `name` - Process name/identifier
81    /// * `child` - Child process handle
82    pub fn track(&mut self, name: String, child: Child) {
83        let pid = child.id();
84        debug!("Tracking process: {} (PID: {})", name, pid);
85        self.processes.insert(name, child);
86    }
87
88    /// Remove and return a process by name
89    pub fn remove(&mut self, name: &str) -> Option<Child> {
90        self.processes.remove(name)
91    }
92
93    /// Add a dependency relationship
94    ///
95    /// Specifies that `node` depends on `dependency` and should be stopped before it.
96    ///
97    /// # Arguments
98    ///
99    /// * `node` - The node that depends on another
100    /// * `dependency` - The node that is depended upon
101    pub fn add_dependency(&mut self, node: String, dependency: String) {
102        self.dependency_graph.entry(node).or_default().push(dependency);
103    }
104
105    /// Get list of all tracked process names
106    pub fn list(&self) -> Vec<String> {
107        self.processes.keys().cloned().collect()
108    }
109
110    /// Get the number of tracked processes
111    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
112        self.processes.len()
113    }
114
115    /// Check if any processes are being tracked
116    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
117        self.processes.is_empty()
118    }
119
120    /// Get status of all processes
121    pub fn status_all(&mut self) -> HashMap<String, ProcessStatus> {
122        let mut status_map = HashMap::new();
123        let mut to_remove = Vec::new();
124
125        for (name, child) in self.processes.iter_mut() {
126            let status = match child.try_wait() {
127                Ok(Some(exit_status)) => {
128                    to_remove.push(name.clone());
129                    ProcessStatus::Exited(exit_status.code().unwrap_or(-1))
130                }
131                Ok(None) => ProcessStatus::Running,
132                Err(_) => {
133                    to_remove.push(name.clone());
134                    ProcessStatus::Error
135                }
136            };
137            status_map.insert(name.clone(), status);
138        }
139
140        for name in to_remove {
141            self.processes.remove(&name);
142        }
143
144        status_map
145    }
146
147    /// Get information about all tracked processes
148    pub fn processes(&mut self) -> Vec<ProcessInfo> {
149        let mut processes = Vec::new();
150        let mut to_remove = Vec::new();
151
152        for (name, child) in self.processes.iter_mut() {
153            let pid = child.id();
154            let status = match child.try_wait() {
155                Ok(Some(exit_status)) => {
156                    to_remove.push(name.clone());
157                    ProcessStatus::Exited(exit_status.code().unwrap_or(-1))
158                }
159                Ok(None) => ProcessStatus::Running,
160                Err(_) => {
161                    to_remove.push(name.clone());
162                    ProcessStatus::Error
163                }
164            };
165
166            processes.push(ProcessInfo {
167                name: name.clone(),
168                pid,
169                status,
170            });
171        }
172
173        for name in to_remove {
174            self.processes.remove(&name);
175        }
176
177        processes
178    }
179
180    /// Calculate shutdown order based on dependency graph
181    ///
182    /// Returns nodes in the order they should be stopped (dependents before dependencies).
183    pub fn shutdown_order(&self) -> Vec<String> {
184        let mut order = Vec::new();
185        let mut visited = std::collections::HashSet::new();
186
187        let mut dependents: HashMap<String, Vec<String>> = HashMap::new();
188        for (node, deps) in &self.dependency_graph {
189            for dep in deps {
190                dependents.entry(dep.clone()).or_default().push(node.clone());
191            }
192        }
193
194        let all_nodes: Vec<String> = self.list();
195
196        for node in &all_nodes {
197            if !visited.contains(node) {
198                visit_for_shutdown(node, &dependents, &mut visited, &mut order);
199            }
200        }
201
202        order
203    }
204
205    /// Stop a specific process gracefully with timeout
206    ///
207    /// # Arguments
208    ///
209    /// * `name` - Name of the process to stop
210    /// * `timeout` - How long to wait for graceful shutdown before force killing
211    ///
212    /// # Returns
213    ///
214    /// Ok(()) if stopped successfully (graceful or force), Err if not found or error
215    pub fn stop_graceful(&mut self, name: &str, timeout: Duration) -> Result<()> {
216        use std::thread;
217        use std::time::Instant;
218
219        if let Some(mut child) = self.remove(name) {
220            let pid = child.id();
221            debug!("Stopping process: {} (PID: {})", name, pid);
222
223            #[cfg(unix)]
224            {
225                use std::process::Command;
226                let _ = Command::new("kill").arg("--").arg(format!("-{}", pid)).output();
227
228                let _ = Command::new("kill").arg(pid.to_string()).output();
229            }
230
231            #[cfg(not(unix))]
232            {
233                child.kill()?;
234            }
235
236            let start = Instant::now();
237            let mut tracked_child_exited = false;
238
239            loop {
240                if !tracked_child_exited {
241                    match child.try_wait() {
242                        Ok(Some(_)) => {
243                            tracked_child_exited = true;
244                        }
245                        Ok(None) => {}
246                        Err(e) => {
247                            error!("Error checking process {} status: {}", name, e);
248                            return kill_group_and_reap(pid, &mut child);
249                        }
250                    }
251                }
252
253                let done = if tracked_child_exited {
254                    #[cfg(unix)]
255                    {
256                        process_group_is_empty(pid)
257                    }
258                    #[cfg(not(unix))]
259                    {
260                        true
261                    }
262                } else {
263                    false
264                };
265
266                if done {
267                    return Ok(());
268                }
269
270                if start.elapsed() >= timeout {
271                    if tracked_child_exited {
272                        warn!(
273                            "Process {} exited but its process group did not stop within {:?}, force killing",
274                            name, timeout
275                        );
276                    } else {
277                        warn!("Process {} did not stop within {:?}, force killing", name, timeout);
278                    }
279                    return kill_group_and_reap(pid, &mut child);
280                }
281
282                thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100));
283            }
284        } else {
285            Err(anyhow::anyhow!("Process '{}' not found", name))
286        }
287    }
288
289    /// Force kill a process immediately
290    pub fn force_kill(&mut self, name: &str) -> Result<()> {
291        if let Some(mut child) = self.remove(name) {
292            let pid = child.id();
293
294            #[cfg(unix)]
295            {
296                use std::process::Command;
297                let _ = Command::new("kill")
298                    .arg("-9")
299                    .arg("--")
300                    .arg(format!("-{}", pid))
301                    .output();
302            }
303
304            child.kill()?;
305            let _ = child.wait();
306            info!("Process {} force killed", name);
307            Ok(())
308        } else {
309            Err(anyhow::anyhow!("Process '{}' not found", name))
310        }
311    }
312
313    /// Stop all processes in dependency order with graceful shutdown
314    pub fn shutdown_all(&mut self) {
315        if self.is_empty() {
316            debug!("No processes to shut down");
317            return;
318        }
319
320        info!("Shutting down all processes in dependency order");
321
322        if let Some(ref shutdown_handle) = self.shutdown_handle {
323            shutdown_handle.shutdown();
324        }
325
326        let shutdown_order = self.shutdown_order();
327
328        for node in shutdown_order {
329            info!("Stopping {} with {:?} timeout", node, self.shutdown_timeout);
330
331            if let Err(e) = self.stop_graceful(&node, self.shutdown_timeout) {
332                warn!("Failed to stop {}: {}, attempting force kill", node, e);
333                if let Err(kill_err) = self.force_kill(&node) {
334                    error!("Failed to force kill {}: {}", node, kill_err);
335                }
336            }
337        }
338
339        info!("All processes stopped");
340    }
341
342    /// Check if a specific process is running
343    pub fn is_running(&mut self, name: &str) -> bool {
344        if let Some(child) = self.processes.get_mut(name) {
345            matches!(child.try_wait(), Ok(None))
346        } else {
347            false
348        }
349    }
350}
351
352impl Default for ProcessManager {
353    fn default() -> Self {
354        Self::new()
355    }
356}
357
358impl Drop for ProcessManager {
359    fn drop(&mut self) {
360        self.shutdown_all();
361    }
362}
363
364/// Check whether a process group is empty (no processes remain in it).
365///
366/// Sends signal 0 to the process group (`kill -0 -- -{pid}`), which performs no actual
367/// signaling but reports via its exit status whether any process in that group still exists.
368/// A successful exit status means at least one process in the group is still alive; any
369/// failure (notably ESRCH - "no such process") means the group is empty.
370#[cfg(unix)]
371fn process_group_is_empty(pid: u32) -> bool {
372    use std::process::Command;
373    match Command::new("kill")
374        .arg("-0")
375        .arg("--")
376        .arg(format!("-{}", pid))
377        .output()
378    {
379        Ok(output) => !output.status.success(),
380        Err(_) => true,
381    }
382}
383
384/// Force kill the process group and reap the directly-tracked child, returning `Ok(())`.
385///
386/// Used by `stop_graceful`'s timeout/error paths - mirrors `force_kill`'s unconditional
387/// "kill -9 the group, then kill+wait the tracked child" behavior.
388#[allow(unused_variables)]
389fn kill_group_and_reap(pid: u32, child: &mut Child) -> Result<()> {
390    #[cfg(unix)]
391    {
392        use std::process::Command;
393        let _ = Command::new("kill")
394            .arg("-9")
395            .arg("--")
396            .arg(format!("-{}", pid))
397            .output();
398    }
399
400    child.kill()?;
401    let _ = child.wait();
402    Ok(())
403}
404
405/// Recursively visit nodes for shutdown ordering
406///
407/// Helper function for topological sort (DFS-based)
408fn visit_for_shutdown(
409    node: &str,
410    dependents: &HashMap<String, Vec<String>>,
411    visited: &mut std::collections::HashSet<String>,
412    order: &mut Vec<String>,
413) {
414    visited.insert(node.to_string());
415
416    if let Some(deps) = dependents.get(node) {
417        for dep in deps {
418            if !visited.contains(dep) {
419                visit_for_shutdown(dep, dependents, visited, order);
420            }
421        }
422    }
423
424    order.push(node.to_string());
425}
426
427#[cfg(test)]
428mod tests {
429    use super::*;
430
431    #[test]
432    fn test_dependency_ordering() {
433        let mut pm = ProcessManager::new();
434
435        pm.add_dependency("planner".to_string(), "motor".to_string());
436        pm.add_dependency("camera".to_string(), "planner".to_string());
437
438        pm.processes.insert("motor".to_string(), mock_child());
439        pm.processes.insert("planner".to_string(), mock_child());
440        pm.processes.insert("camera".to_string(), mock_child());
441
442        let order = pm.shutdown_order();
443
444        let camera_idx = order.iter().position(|n| n == "camera").unwrap();
445        let planner_idx = order.iter().position(|n| n == "planner").unwrap();
446        let motor_idx = order.iter().position(|n| n == "motor").unwrap();
447
448        assert!(camera_idx < planner_idx);
449        assert!(planner_idx < motor_idx);
450    }
451
452    #[cfg(unix)]
453    fn mock_child() -> Child {
454        use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
455        Command::new("sleep")
456            .arg("1000")
457            .stdin(Stdio::null())
458            .stdout(Stdio::null())
459            .stderr(Stdio::null())
460            .spawn()
461            .unwrap()
462    }
463
464    #[cfg(not(unix))]
465    fn mock_child() -> Child {
466        use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
467        Command::new("timeout")
468            .arg("/t")
469            .arg("1000")
470            .stdin(Stdio::null())
471            .stdout(Stdio::null())
472            .stderr(Stdio::null())
473            .spawn()
474            .unwrap()
475    }
476
477    /// Regression test for the bug where `stop_graceful` declared success the instant the
478    /// directly-tracked process exited, without checking whether the rest of its process
479    /// group (e.g. a supervised grandchild subprocess, like simulator's Python MuJoCo
480    /// process) was actually gone yet.
481    ///
482    /// Spawns a "parent" process as the leader of its own process group (mirroring how
483    /// node-runner is spawned with `process_group(0)`), which itself forks a background
484    /// child that ignores SIGTERM and stays alive for a bit before exiting on its own -
485    /// simulating a supervised subprocess that's slower to shut down than its supervisor.
486    /// `stop_graceful` must not return until *both* have exited, not just the tracked parent.
487    #[cfg(unix)]
488    #[test]
489    #[ignore = "flaky under CI load: relies on tight (~2-300ms) real-wall-clock timing \
490                between forking a shell, its backgrounded grandchild, and this test's own \
491                polling loop, which a contended CI runner can blow past (observed: returned \
492                in 2ms instead of >=250ms on PR #665's CI run, passed 5/5 locally)"]
493    fn stop_graceful_waits_for_entire_process_group() {
494        use std::os::unix::process::CommandExt;
495        use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
496        use std::time::Instant;
497
498        let mut pm = ProcessManager::new();
499
500        let child = Command::new("sh")
501            .arg("-c")
502            .arg(r#"trap "" TERM; sh -c 'trap "" TERM; sleep 0.3' & exit 0"#)
503            .process_group(0)
504            .stdin(Stdio::null())
505            .stdout(Stdio::null())
506            .stderr(Stdio::null())
507            .spawn()
508            .expect("failed to spawn test process group leader");
509
510        pm.track("grandchild-test".to_string(), child);
511
512        let start = Instant::now();
513        let result = pm.stop_graceful("grandchild-test", Duration::from_secs(5));
514        let elapsed = start.elapsed();
515
516        assert!(result.is_ok(), "stop_graceful should succeed: {:?}", result);
517        assert!(
518            elapsed >= Duration::from_millis(250),
519            "stop_graceful returned after {:?}, before the grandchild (~300ms) could have \
520             exited - it must have declared success as soon as the tracked parent exited \
521             without checking the rest of the process group",
522            elapsed
523        );
524        assert!(
525            elapsed < Duration::from_secs(2),
526            "stop_graceful took {:?}, suggesting it fell through to the timeout/force-kill \
527             path instead of detecting the group became empty",
528            elapsed
529        );
530    }
531}