When a program started by the process operation exits on its own, the
daemon now ends its process group (Unix) or its own job object (Windows)
before reaping it, so a wrapper like npx does not leave its server
running. The pid leaves the tracked groups before it is reaped, so a
racing close cannot signal a reused pid.
The daemon's process operation runs a long-lived program with piped stdin, stdout and stderr, for programs that speak a protocol on stdin and stdout such as MCP servers. processWrite and processCloseStdin feed stdin in arrival order; output arrives as raw bytes per stream; cancelling or a lost connection kills the process group. hello reports it in features, and openProcess() is the client.
On Windows, readers and writers of child pipes now run their own overlapped operations and look at stop every 100 ms. The standard library opens these pipes for overlapped I/O, so CancelSynchronousIo never reached a blocked read: exec's readers stayed blocked while a descendant held a pipe open.
Spawning, reaping, argv parsing and target lookup are shared by exec, pty and process.
Connection.close() ends stdin and sends SIGTERM at once. The daemon did not
handle SIGTERM, so it died before its end-of-input kill_all, and running
commands were reparented to init. The daemon now blocks SIGTERM, SIGINT and
SIGHUP before starting any thread and waits for them on its own thread, which
kills every process group it started and exits. On Windows the job object
already kills commands with the daemon.
RemoteExecutionEnv.listFiles resolves the path and lists through the
daemon; a daemon without the listFiles feature yields not_supported.
LocalExecutionEnv is NodeExecutionEnv plus listFiles through a daemon on
the same machine, so local and SSH sessions list with the same code.
nodePlatform maps hello's Rust names to Node's (windows -> win32,
macos -> darwin, x86_64 -> x64, aarch64 -> arm64).
Lists a directory tree like fd --hidden --exclude .git without following
symbolic links, with the ignore crate of fd and ripgrep for git's ignore
rules. Records travel as payload (kind byte, relative / path, NUL); the
listing stops at maxEntries, maxBytes or timeoutMs with truncated, and a
cancel stops it between entries. hello reports features: ["listFiles"]
so clients can tell older daemons apart.
The process group in front of the pty when it is not the program's own (a job its shell runs), with the leader's name on macOS and Linux. Exposed as RemoteTerminal.foreground().
The daemon gets pty, ptyWrite and ptyResize: raw terminal output as events, input in arrival order, SIGWINCH on resize, and the process group killed on cancel or a lost connection. openTerminal() is the client, localDaemon() the daemon for this machine. Unix only; Windows answers ENOTSUP.
- RemoteExecutionEnv: a Durable ExecutionEnv on another machine whose
results match NodeExecutionEnv there; Connection to the pi-env daemon
- packages/env/daemon: the Rust daemon for Linux, macOS, Android and
Windows, following Node and libuv semantics
- env.yml runs Durable's env tests, the daemon's checks and pi-env's
conformance and differential tests on Linux, macOS and Windows
