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hermes-agent/hermes_cli/pty_bridge.py
Gille a99340c247 fix(dashboard): prevent PTY input from blocking event loop (#93565)
* fix(dashboard): prevent PTY input from blocking event loop

* fix(win-pty): don't terminate a healthy ConPTY on write cancellation; log leaked write workers

Review follow-up to the backpressure fix.

CancelledError on WinPtyBridge.write() ran the same path as a timeout and
force-terminated the ConPTY. Cancellation means the owning socket went away
mid-write, which is the keep-alive session's normal reattach case, not a
wedged child; killing the process there defeats the PTY-outlives-socket
design. Give the in-flight write the shutdown grace window and only
terminate if it never lands.

When terminate() fails to unblock pywinpty, the worker stays parked in the
default executor. That was swallowed by a bare except; log it so a slow
thread-pool starvation is diagnosable.

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Co-authored-by: Austin Pickett <pickett.austin@gmail.com>
2026-09-04 20:24:24 -04:00

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"""PTY bridge for `hermes dashboard` chat tab.
Wraps a child process behind a pseudo-terminal so its ANSI output can be streamed to xterm.js and
keystrokes fed back in; the only caller is the ``/api/pty`` WebSocket endpoint in
``hermes_cli.web_server``. POSIX-only: depends on ``fcntl``, ``termios`` and ``ptyprocess`` (native
Windows would need a separate ConPTY/``pywinpty`` implementation).
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import errno
import fcntl
import os
import select
import signal
import struct
import sys
import termios
import time
from typing import Optional, Sequence
try:
import ptyprocess # type: ignore
_PTY_AVAILABLE = not sys.platform.startswith("win")
except ImportError: # pragma: no cover - dev env without ptyprocess
ptyprocess = None # type: ignore
_PTY_AVAILABLE = False
__all__ = ["PTY_HOST_DASHBOARD", "PTY_HOST_ENV", "PtyBridge", "PtyUnavailableError"]
# Set on the spawned TUI so Ink knows which emulator is hosting it. Mirrored in
# ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/termio/host.ts — keep the two in sync.
PTY_HOST_ENV = "HERMES_PTY_HOST"
PTY_HOST_DASHBOARD = "dashboard"
# ``struct winsize`` packs rows/cols as unsigned short; we clamp well below that ceiling because a
# value above it is a broken probe (WSL2 reports columns=131072), not a genuine ultrawide. Lower
# bound is 1 — a zero/negative dimension is the classic "no size yet" signal.
_MIN_DIMENSION = 1
_MAX_COLS = 2000
_MAX_ROWS = 1000
def _clamp_dimension(value: int, maximum: int) -> int:
"""Clamp into ``[_MIN_DIMENSION, maximum]``; non-integer / non-finite values fall back to
``_MIN_DIMENSION`` so a bad probe can never reach ``struct.pack``.
"""
try:
n = int(value)
except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
return _MIN_DIMENSION
return max(_MIN_DIMENSION, min(n, maximum))
class PtyUnavailableError(RuntimeError):
"""PTY cannot be created here (native Windows, or ``ptyprocess`` missing); the dashboard
surfaces the message as a chat-tab banner.
"""
class PtyBridge:
"""Thin wrapper around ``ptyprocess.PtyProcess`` for byte streaming. Not thread-safe: owned by
the WebSocket handler that spawned it; reads run in an executor thread, writes are awaited on
the loop. The master fd is non-blocking so input backpressure suspends only the owning
WebSocket task, never the dashboard event loop.
"""
def __init__(self, proc: "ptyprocess.PtyProcess"): # type: ignore[name-defined]
self._proc = proc
self._fd: int = proc.fd
self._closed = False
os.set_blocking(self._fd, False)
@classmethod
def is_available(cls) -> bool:
"""True if a PTY can be spawned on this platform."""
return bool(_PTY_AVAILABLE)
@classmethod
def spawn(
cls, argv: Sequence[str], *, cwd: Optional[str] = None, env: Optional[dict] = None, cols: int = 80, rows: int = 24
) -> "PtyBridge":
"""Spawn ``argv`` behind a new PTY and return a bridge."""
if not _PTY_AVAILABLE:
if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
raise PtyUnavailableError("Pseudo-terminals are unavailable on this platform. "
"Hermes Agent supports Windows only via WSL.")
raise PtyUnavailableError("The `ptyprocess` package is missing. " # only other way _PTY_AVAILABLE is False
"Install with: pip install ptyprocess (or pip install -e '.[pty]').")
# env=None: callers own env policy (process_registry already sanitizes), so inherit via the
# factory with exact preservation. Backfill TERM when missing/blank — CI often lacks it and
# probes like `tput cols` then fail before winsize reads; explicit overrides are kept.
from tools.environments.local import build_subprocess_env
spawn_env = build_subprocess_env(scrub_secrets=False, inherit_profile_home=False) if env is None else env.copy()
if not spawn_env.get("TERM"):
spawn_env["TERM"] = "xterm-256color"
# Tell the child TUI it is hosted by the dashboard's xterm.js. Ink uses this to skip the
# focus-in erase+repaint it does for native emulators that coalesce hidden-tab output
# (xterm.js never drops frames, so under the dashboard that repaint was a visible flash on
# every OS app-switch).
spawn_env[PTY_HOST_ENV] = PTY_HOST_DASHBOARD
proc = ptyprocess.PtyProcess.spawn(list(argv), cwd=cwd, env=spawn_env, dimensions=(rows, cols)) # type: ignore[union-attr]
return cls(proc)
@property
def pid(self) -> int:
return int(self._proc.pid)
def is_alive(self) -> bool:
try:
return not self._closed and bool(self._proc.isalive())
except Exception:
return False
def read(self, timeout: float = 0.2) -> Optional[bytes]:
"""Read up to 64 KiB from the PTY master, blocking at most ``timeout`` seconds.
``b""`` = nothing yet; ``None`` = EOF / closed (also after :meth:`close`).
"""
if self._closed:
return None
try:
readable, _, _ = select.select([self._fd], [], [], timeout)
except (OSError, ValueError):
return None
if not readable:
return b""
try:
data = os.read(self._fd, 65536)
except OSError as exc:
# EIO on Linux = slave side closed. EBADF = already closed.
if exc.errno in {errno.EIO, errno.EBADF}:
return None
# The fd is deliberately non-blocking. Readiness can disappear
# between select() and os.read() when close/output races occur.
if exc.errno in {errno.EAGAIN, errno.EWOULDBLOCK}:
return b""
raise
return data or None
async def _wait_writable(self, timeout: float) -> bool:
"""Wait without blocking the event loop until the master accepts input."""
if self._closed or timeout <= 0:
return False
loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
ready = loop.create_future()
def _mark_ready() -> None:
if not ready.done():
ready.set_result(None)
try:
loop.add_writer(self._fd, _mark_ready)
await asyncio.wait_for(ready, timeout=timeout)
return not self._closed
except (asyncio.TimeoutError, OSError, ValueError):
return False
finally:
try:
loop.remove_writer(self._fd)
except (OSError, ValueError):
pass
async def write(self, data: bytes, *, timeout: float = 10.0) -> bool:
"""Write all raw bytes without ever blocking the dashboard event loop.
Returns ``False`` when the bridge closes or the child leaves its input
buffer full for ``timeout`` seconds. Callers can then recycle only the
affected terminal session while the rest of the dashboard stays live.
"""
if self._closed:
return False
if not data:
return True
loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
deadline = loop.time() + max(0.0, timeout)
view = memoryview(data)
while view:
if self._closed:
return False
try:
n = os.write(self._fd, view)
except OSError as exc:
if exc.errno in {errno.EIO, errno.EBADF, errno.EPIPE}:
return False
if exc.errno in {errno.EAGAIN, errno.EWOULDBLOCK}:
n = 0
else:
raise
if n > 0:
view = view[n:]
# A very large paste can otherwise monopolize the loop while
# the child drains quickly enough to keep the fd writable.
if view:
await asyncio.sleep(0)
continue
remaining = deadline - loop.time()
if not await self._wait_writable(remaining):
return False
return True
def resize(self, cols: int, rows: int) -> None:
"""Forward a terminal resize to the child via ``TIOCSWINSZ``.
Clamped first: WSL2 via xterm.js reports garbage like ``columns=131072, rows=1`` and an
unclamped unsigned-short pack raises ``struct.error`` (not ``OSError``), leaving the TUI
laid out for a one-row screen — the blank/disappearing-text symptom.
"""
if self._closed:
return
# struct winsize: rows, cols, xpixel, ypixel (all unsigned short)
winsize = struct.pack("HHHH", _clamp_dimension(rows, _MAX_ROWS), _clamp_dimension(cols, _MAX_COLS), 0, 0)
try:
fcntl.ioctl(self._fd, termios.TIOCSWINSZ, winsize)
except OSError:
pass
def close(self) -> None:
"""Terminate the child (SIGHUP → SIGTERM → SIGKILL, 0.5s grace each), reap it so the
dashboard process never leaks zombies, and close fds. Idempotent.
"""
if self._closed:
return
self._closed = True
try:
pgid = os.getpgid(self._proc.pid) # windows-footgun: ok — POSIX-only module (imports fcntl/termios/ptyprocess at top)
except Exception:
pgid = None
# Signal the whole process group, not just the PTY leader: the dashboard TUI starts helper
# children (e.g. the Python slash worker) and killing only the leader strands them.
for sig in (signal.SIGHUP, signal.SIGTERM, signal.SIGKILL): # windows-footgun: ok — POSIX-only module (imports fcntl/termios/ptyprocess at top)
if not self._proc.isalive():
break
try:
if pgid is not None:
os.killpg(pgid, sig) # windows-footgun: ok — POSIX-only module (imports fcntl/termios/ptyprocess at top)
else:
self._proc.kill(sig)
except Exception:
pass
deadline = time.monotonic() + 0.5
while self._proc.isalive() and time.monotonic() < deadline:
time.sleep(0.02)
try:
self._proc.close(force=True)
except Exception:
pass
def __enter__(self) -> "PtyBridge":
return self
def __exit__(self, *_exc) -> None:
self.close()