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Windows integration tests started failing on main after nextest merged (#1312), with installer_preflight and client_conformance failing together on 2 of the 3 runs. A test's separate gateway died mid-test, and a fixture's daemon was logged as "most likely killed" with nothing asking for it.

Fixture cleanup is what kills them. Fixture.close() signals every pid ever written to mock.pid and every daemon descriptor, whether or not that process is still running. Windows reuses a pid within seconds, so a crashed mock's old pid can belong to another fixture's or test's process by the time cleanup runs. This bug is older than nextest. nextest and parallel fixtures just put far more processes alongside it.

Cleanup now needs proof before it signals on Windows:

• The mock holds mock.pid.<pid>.alive open with no sharing for its whole life. If cleanup can delete the file, the mock has ended and the pid is skipped.
• A daemon's descriptor names its endpoint. If nothing is listening there, the daemon has ended and the pid is skipped. kill_daemons in one_gateway_conformance had the same bug and gets the same check.

Linux and macOS behave as before.

Windows integration tests, separate runs	Passed	Failed
Main, as it is now	7	1
Fix	24	0

The one failure on main was the same two tests. The earlier failures on main make the real rate about 1 in 5, so 24 clean runs is unlikely to be luck (under 1%).

The direct evidence is a log from 16 of those fixed runs. Cleanup skipped 1,343 pids, and 7 were alive with another process's image: toolport-gateway.exe twice, conhost.exe twice, another fixture's mock-mcp-server.exe, and RuntimeBroker.exe. One had already exited when the log looked it up. The old code would have terminated all of them.

The runs above came before the two review fixes on this PR: a connect timeout now counts as not ours, and the mock won't start without its marker. This PR's own CI covers those.

Limit: a daemon's port could in theory be reused by another fixture's daemon before cleanup runs. That's much rarer than pid reuse, and I've left it.

Note

Add Windows liveness checks to test cleanup to avoid killing stale PIDs

• On Windows, a stale PID recorded in a PID file can be recycled by another process, so unconditional taskkill in test cleanup could kill unrelated processes. Cleanup now checks liveness before killing.
• Fixture.close in client-conformance-support.mjs skips killing daemon PIDs whose descriptor endpoint does not accept a TCP connection (2s timeout), and skips mock PIDs whose .alive marker can be removed.
• The mock MCP server (mock-mcp-server.rs) now holds an exclusive handle to a per-process .alive file on Windows for its lifetime, so the marker can only be deleted after the server exits.
• one_gateway_conformance.rs replaces unconditional Windows taskkill with the same TCP endpoint check. Unix cleanup is unchanged.
• Behavioral Change: Windows-only changes; on non-Windows platforms all cleanup paths behave as before.

^{Macroscope summarized 55c64d5.}

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Walkthrough

Windows conformance cleanup now checks daemon and mock PID ownership before termination. The mock server creates a per-process .alive file, and daemon cleanup checks whether the descriptor endpoint accepts a connection.

Changes: Conformance fixture cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
PID ownership checks scripts/client-conformance-support.mjs, src-tauri/src/test_support/mock-mcp-server.rs	Fixture cleanup checks daemon endpoints and mock .alive files on Windows. The mock server holds its .alive file open for its lifetime.
Cleanup termination gates scripts/client-conformance-support.mjs, src-tauri/tests/one_gateway_conformance.rs	Fixture cleanup terminates recorded PIDs only when ownership checks pass. The Windows conformance test checks for a listening descriptor endpoint before running taskkill.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• btsouth/toolport#1312: Adds concurrent client conformance runs, which share the fixture cleanup code changed here.

Suggested reviewers: 1llum1n4t1s

Merge Risk: Low · up to 787ae

This change makes Windows test cleanup much less likely to kill unrelated processes. Two small gaps remain: a connect timeout is still treated as proof that the daemon is running, and a mock whose liveness marker fails to be created can still be signalled by stale PID. Both are narrow, test-only edge cases that are cheap to fix, so the PR is mergeable with follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely states the main change: preventing Windows test cleanup from killing processes owned by other tests.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description is specific and related to the changeset. It explains the Windows test failures after nextest, the cause (fixture cleanup signaling stale PIDs that Windows may reuse), and the fix: a p…

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The description is specific and related to the changeset. It explains the Windows test failures after nextest, the cause (fixture cleanup signaling stale PIDs that Windows may reuse), and the fix: a per-process .alive marker held by the mock, and a TCP endpoint liveness check for daemons, including the same check in kill_daemons. It also states that Linux and macOS are unchanged, which matches the raw summary. It includes test-result tables and a log summary as supporting evidence. This matches the file-level summaries for client-conformance-support.mjs, mock-mcp-server.rs, and one_gateway_conformance.rs.

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Review comments at @scripts/client-conformance-support.mjs:
- Around line 479-480: Update the socket timeout handler in daemonIsOurs to
resolve as not listening, while preserving the existing connect and error
outcomes.
- Line 493: Update mock startup’s Windows liveness-marker creation so a failure
to create the marker prevents the mock from publishing its PID; do not silently
ignore the error. Preserve `mockIsOurs` and `close()` behavior where a missing
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