The freeze hypothesis is a wedged FFI call — a reader isolate blocked forever
in ReadFile, a waiter in WaitForSingleObject, Isolate.kill unable to interrupt
either. To NAME the wedge after a power-cycle, each backend now drops a
breadcrumb before/after every risky syscall.
- pty_log.dart (new, Flutter-free, tested): PtyLog — an injectable, no-op-by-
default breadcrumb hook for the MAIN isolate (wired to the kernel Logger,
source 'conpty'/'pty' = an eager FileLogSink source) — and IsolateCrumbFile,
which the SPAWNED reader/waiter isolates use to open their OWN append handle
and flushSync per line, so a wedged isolate's last crumb survives even a
frozen main isolate (the whole point). Bounded by a truncating size cap.
- native_pty.dart + windows_pty.dart: crumbs around posix_spawn/read and
CreatePseudoConsole/CreateProcessW/ReadFile/WaitForSingleObject; the reader/
waiter isolates carry a sendable crumb path + verbose flag. Per-syscall crumbs
only at debug/trace; lifecycle crumbs always.
- Wiring: startPtySession → PaneRegistry → buildDispatcher build the PtyLog from
the kernel Logger + a crumb file under logDirectory(); verbose follows the log
level. Default everywhere is PtyLog.none — zero behaviour change off the wire.
Tested: PtyLog/IsolateCrumbFile units (cap-truncation, append, no-op) + an
end-to-end real-PTY test asserting the reader isolate writes its own crumbs
('reader started' / 'read -> n=' / 'reader exiting'), which validates the
identical Windows structure that can't run here. Coverage gate 95.10%.
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A testability audit of the ignore span found the original comment overclaimed
("none of it can execute on Linux") and credited the wrong test file. Reality,
verified fragment by fragment:
- The span is excluded at FILE granularity but is not 100% syscall — _Coord /
_StartupInfoExW struct packing and write()'s empty-guard are pure transforms
that could be unit-tested on Linux if extracted from the binding-touching
methods. Tracked in T-431 (also covers the mirror gap in native_pty.dart's
POSIX marshalling).
- The pure helpers are tested by windows_pty_args_test.dart (not _test.dart).
- The FFI path's BEHAVIOUR is validated on windows-latest (real ConPTY spawn),
but windows.yml collects no coverage — so there is intentionally no line-
coverage metric for this span anywhere; correctness rests on that functional
suite + the VM soak, not on coverage.
Comment-only; no code or coverage change.
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windows_pty.dart's Win32 structs, kernel32 bindings, and the WindowsPty
session (CreatePseudoConsole / CreateProcessW / WaitForSingleObject) cannot
execute on the ubuntu-latest runner that produces the coverage report —
there is no kernel32 to bind. They were being counted as 214 uncovered
lines (the file sat at 13.7%), dragging total line coverage to 94.17% and
failing the 95% gate for code the gate's platform structurally cannot reach.
Wrap exactly that FFI span in `// coverage:ignore-start/end` (flutter test
--coverage honours the markers, verified). The pure, platform-agnostic spawn
helpers — resolveExecutable / quoteArg / composeEnvironmentBlock — sit after
the ignore-end and stay measured (covered by windows_pty_args_test.dart on
every platform). FFI-path behaviour is validated on the Windows runner
(windows.yml) and end-to-end in the Windows VM soak (tools/windows-verify/).
Gate back to green: 95.16% (floor 95%). Floor unchanged — the exclusion
restores the denominator to Linux-runnable code rather than lowering the bar.
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Pre-Windows-VM hardening — the parts validatable on Linux, leaving the
unrunnable FFI (Job Object, T-424) for the VM session:
- Clamp PTY cols/rows to >= 2 in both backends' spawn + resize (new
pty_size.dart). A 1-column ConPTY makes conhost spin emitting CRLF
(microsoft/terminal#19922); 0 is invalid on both platforms.
- ci/test.sh: --timeout 60s on the dart-test pty line (matches the flutter
lines) so a wedged ConPTY reader fails fast instead of hanging the run.
- Make windows_pty.dart's pure helpers public + testable off-Windows:
quoteArg (MSVCRT quoting), composeEnvironmentBlock, and resolveExecutable
(now takes an injectable existence probe). New windows_pty_args_test.dart
+ pty_size_test.dart give 15 cross-platform assertions over the trickiest
Windows logic the on-Windows smoke suite can't reach off-platform.
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Bring the runtime up on Windows without disturbing the POSIX paths.
PTY: introduce a platform-neutral PtySession contract with a factory
that picks NativePty (posix_openpt/posix_spawn) or the new WindowsPty
(ConPTY via CreatePseudoConsole). The pane registry programs against
the interface; NativePty now implements it.
IPC: the per-workspace AF_UNIX socket lives under %LOCALAPPDATA% and
is hashed from a canonical workspace key (backslash + ASCII-folded
case) so the Dart server and the C client agree despite NTFS case-
insensitivity. The C client grows a Win32 shim (winsock afunix);
chmod is a no-op on Windows where the per-user ACL is the gate.
Toolchain: PATH probing splits on ';' and tries PATHEXT extensions;
the shell defaults to PowerShell (pwsh, then powershell); tmux is
treated as optional since it has no Windows build; dugite falls back
to PATH git for now.
Build: add `make build-windows`, a clide-cli MSVC build wrapped by
ci/build_cli_windows.sh, and a ConPTY smoke-test suite that self-
skips off-platform.
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