"""Cron external worker: the PM dependency boot its own entry point never gets. ``sys.executable -m cron.scheduler --external-worker-file ...`` (``cron/scheduler.py::_launch_external_cron_worker``) is a full Hermes entry point that does not go through ``hermes_bootstrap``, and it imports Hermes packages the moment it starts. ``cron/scheduler_worker_env.py`` restores the committed generation's ``site-packages`` on its ``PYTHONPATH`` so those imports resolve, but a pinned path is not a boot: the worker holds no lease on the generation, so the PM collector may remove it between the gateway's exit and the worker's next import (#122290 review), and its ``sys.path`` never ran the generation's ``.pth`` files. ``pm.environments.activate_dependencies`` is exactly that boot -- the same call ``hermes_bootstrap`` makes for every other entry point -- and it leases the generation it selects for the life of the process. ``worker_bootstrap()`` runs it at the top of ``cron/__init__.py`` -- ``-m cron.scheduler`` executes the package before the module, and the package's first import (``cron.jobs`` -> ``hermes_yaml`` -> ``ruamel``) is already a dependency -- and does nothing unless ``_launch_external_cron_worker`` marked this child: the gateway already booted through ``hermes_bootstrap``, and every other importer of ``cron.scheduler`` is an interpreter that owns its own dependencies. A genuine activation failure propagates: continuing on the inherited, unleased path lets the collector delete the generation under a live worker. The worker then exits before its ownership acknowledgement, which ``_launch_external_cron_worker`` already reports as a failed dispatch with the worker's stderr. PM's legitimate no-ops (no committed generation under a venv, wheel, Nix) return normally. """ from __future__ import annotations import os from pathlib import Path # Set by ``_launch_external_cron_worker`` in the child's env and consumed here, so it never # reaches the worker's own children -- they inherit the activated PYTHONPATH instead. # Distinct from ``_HERMES_CRON_EXTERNAL_WORKER`` (the owning execution id) in scheduler.py. WORKER_MARKER = "_HERMES_CRON_WORKER_BOOT" def worker_bootstrap() -> None: """Run PM's dependency boot in the marked external worker, once.""" if not os.environ.pop(WORKER_MARKER, None): return from pm.environments import activate_dependencies activate_dependencies(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent)