The port installed handlers for SIGHUP and SIGTERM only, so SIGINT and SIGQUIT
killed the process with tcell still holding the tty. All four signals now go to
one os/signal channel read by one goroutine in cmd/rogue/main.go, and every
path calls Terminal.Fini before os.Exit(0) — C's leave(), "leave quickly
but curteously".
Reworked at dfb34be against the review of f602ecd; see the rework comment
for the point-by-point.
When the handlers are installed
Immediately after term.New(), the call that raises raw mode — not after the
game is built. Everything between those two points ran raw with no handler at
all: the save-restore path, and -d's g.DeathDemo(), which never returns
(death() blocks in g.waitFor('\n'), game/rip.go). A kill -INT during the
death demo therefore still left the scrambled terminal this PR is about.
The game is handed to the handler afterwards through pendingSaver, whose AutoSave is a no-op until then: a signal arriving before the game exists
restores the terminal and exits with nothing to save. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on
the play path is unchanged. The death demo is deliberately left without a saver —
a throwaway demo game must not overwrite the player's save file.
The decision: SIGINT/SIGQUIT do NOT save
Documented in full on savesOnSignal in cmd/rogue/main.go. SIGHUP and SIGTERM
keep autosaving; SIGINT and SIGQUIT restore the terminal and exit without
saving. Three grounds:
C. No path in the C game saves on INT or QUIT. leave() is endwin and
exit (it explicitly throws away pending output), quit() confirms, scores and
exits, endit() goes through fatal(), and save.c auto_save is reserved for
HUP/TERM. Saving on HUP/TERM but not on INT/QUIT is exactly C's split.
Semantics. HUP/TERM are involuntary teardown — the line dropped, the
machine is going down — so rescuing the game is right. INT/QUIT are the player
deliberately saying "stop now". Rogue scores a deliberate quit and its save
discipline is anti-save-scum by design (restoring consumes the file), so
making Ctrl-C a free checkpoint would turn it into a one-keystroke undo for a
bad turn: a gameplay change, not a robustness fix.
Safety. The handler runs while the main goroutine is mid-turn mutating
state, and AutoSave removes the save file before gob-encoding that live
state. On HUP/TERM that risk is accepted because the process is dying anyway.
On INT/QUIT there is nothing to rescue, so the port takes the option with no
corruption window at all.
Ordering, and the race the issue warned about
One goroutine reads exactly one signal. A second signal — a SIGINT landing while
a SIGHUP's AutoSave is still writing — stays unread in the buffered channel
and can never call os.Exit out from under the writer. Within the handler the
order is: AutoSave (only if this signal saves), then Terminal.Fini, then os.Exit(0) — the same order myExit uses in game/rip.go. TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals reproduces that exact interleaving.
SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave behavior is unchanged; the save/restore suite is
untouched and green.
Two premises in the issue that turned out to be wrong
Recorded rather than silently fixed, since neither changes the fix. Both were
independently verified against the C sources during review and confirmed:
leave() is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play. The wiring is
in mdport.c, not main.c. md_init() calls md_onsignal_exit(), then setup() (mach_dep.c:136) calls md_onsignal_default() in the shipped
build — everything back to SIG_DFL, nothing installed. The variant that
wires SIGHUP/SIGTERM to auto_save and SIGINT to quit(), md_onsignal_autosave(), is defined unconditionally in mdport.c; only
its call site (mach_dep.c:143-147) is #ifdef DUMP. leave() is installed
on SIGINT in exactly two endgame places, rip.c:237 in death() and main.c:305 inside quit() after the player confirms, as a second-Ctrl-C
escape hatch while the scoreboard prints.
Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here anyway. tcell's tty Start() calls golang.org/x/term.MakeRaw, which clears ISIG, so Ctrl-C arrives as KeyCtrlC and translateKey already turns it into byte 0x03 for the
command loop. C did the same — setup() calls curses raw(), which also
clears ISIG. The reproducer as written does not fire.
The residual exposure, stated correctly:kill -INT / kill -QUIT from
another terminal, a SIGINT delivered to the process group while the ! shell
escape has the screen suspended, and the unarmed window afterterm.New()
described at the top. Nothing is raw beforeterm.New(), so there was never
anything to cover there — the earlier revision of this description had that
backwards.
SIGTSTP: deliberately dropped, recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9
Not handled, with the reasoning in the section 9 prose:
With tcell in raw mode ISIG is clear, which is what makes VSUSP live, so
Ctrl-Z never reaches the process as a signal — it arrives as byte 0x1a, just
as in C. Only an explicit kill -TSTP can deliver it, which is not a player
action.
Handling it correctly would mean calling Screen.Suspend/Resume from the
signal goroutine while the game goroutine may be inside Render or PollEvent. That is a logical race over screen state, not a data race —
tcell guards Suspend/Resume and Fini alike with the screen mutex, which
is also why the Fini this PR calls from the signal goroutine is safe. Doing
it properly means plumbing the signal through the input loop and handling it
synchronously, a design change well beyond a signal-safety fix.
C's own wiring is vestigial: tstp is armed only by md_tstpresume(), which
runs after a successful restore() (save.c:257), so a freshly started C
game never had a SIGTSTP handler either.
term.Tcell.ShellEscape (the ! command) already covers getting to a shell
and back, doing the same suspend/resume dance synchronously where it is safe.
Section 9 also gains rows for SIGINT not routing to the interactive quit()
prompt (an async handler cannot re-enter the message/input machinery from
another goroutine; Q reaches the same prompt from inside the turn loop) and
for auto_save on the fault signals (SIGILL/TRAP/FPE/BUS/SEGV/SYS are Go
runtime panics, and gob-encoding the state that just faulted would risk
replacing a good save with a corrupt one). Section 5.3's claim that "SIGTSTP/
resume and resize are handled by tcell" was false — tcell registers only
SIGWINCH — and is corrected; its "every path restores the terminal" claim now
holds, because of the install ordering at the top.
Testing, including what could not be tested
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:
TestHandledSignalsSet — pins the membership of handledSignals() to exactly
{SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT}. Every other test iterates that set, so
this is the one that can fail on the actual regression: mutating the set back
to {SIGHUP, SIGTERM} now fails the suite.
TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit — for every handled signal, the
terminal is restored before the process exits, with exit code 0.
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit — pins the decision: save,fini,exit for
SIGHUP/SIGTERM, fini,exit for SIGINT/SIGQUIT, cross-checked against savesOnSignal. Driven from the expectation table rather than from handledSignals(), so every entry is actually read.
TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals — a saver that queues a second signal
mid-save, proving the second one is never read and cannot truncate the write.
TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists — a signal arriving before the game
is built restores the terminal and exits without saving; once the game is
handed over, the same saver writes it.
TestLeaveOnRealSignal — delivers real SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM to
the test process through the same notifySignals wiring the game uses, and
asserts the full expected step sequence per signal, including the save split.
What could not be tested headlessly: that the tty actually leaves raw mode.
That needs a controlling terminal and a live tcell screen, which a headless test
run does not have, so the tests stop at the Terminal.Fini call. term.Tcell.Fini is a one-line pass-through to tcell's Screen.Fini, the same
call myExit (game/rip.go) already depends on for every normal game exit, so
the untested remainder is the same code path a death or a Q already exercises
in real play. Stating this rather than skipping it silently, per the issue's
definition of done.
One deviation from the usual test-file convention: this file carries no //nolint:testpackage header. testpackage exempts package main, so nolintlint rejects the directive as unused; a comment under the package clause
explains why it is absent.
Verification
make fmt (Go and Markdown), then make check green: fmt-check + lint
(0 issues) + test. Because golangci-lint on this host shares one cache
across concurrent sessions, every lint and check run was made in a retry loop
and only accepted when it neither reported parallel golangci-lint is running
nor mentioned any path outside this worktree; make check was accepted green
twice under that guard.
make test carries -timeout 30s -race -cover. The signal tests are
race-detector clean, including the handler goroutine, the pendingSaver
handoff, and the real-signal delivery test — no suppression needed anywhere.
Mutation-proof of non-vacuity: with handledSignals() temporarily reduced to
{SIGHUP, SIGTERM}, make test fails on TestHandledSignalsSet and TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit. Restored afterwards.
.golangci.yml untouched (sha256 021cc83f...46bcb); no game/testdata/
golden regenerated.
Closes #12.
The port installed handlers for SIGHUP and SIGTERM only, so SIGINT and SIGQUIT
killed the process with tcell still holding the tty. All four signals now go to
one `os/signal` channel read by one goroutine in `cmd/rogue/main.go`, and every
path calls `Terminal.Fini` before `os.Exit(0)` — C's `leave()`, "leave quickly
but curteously".
_Reworked at `dfb34be` against the review of `f602ecd`; see the rework comment
for the point-by-point._
## When the handlers are installed
Immediately after `term.New()`, the call that raises raw mode — not after the
game is built. Everything between those two points ran raw with **no handler at
all**: the save-restore path, and `-d`'s `g.DeathDemo()`, which never returns
(`death()` blocks in `g.waitFor('\n')`, `game/rip.go`). A `kill -INT` during the
death demo therefore still left the scrambled terminal this PR is about.
The game is handed to the handler afterwards through `pendingSaver`, whose
`AutoSave` is a no-op until then: a signal arriving before the game exists
restores the terminal and exits with nothing to save. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on
the play path is unchanged. The death demo is deliberately left without a saver —
a throwaway demo game must not overwrite the player's save file.
## The decision: SIGINT/SIGQUIT do NOT save
Documented in full on `savesOnSignal` in `cmd/rogue/main.go`. SIGHUP and SIGTERM
keep autosaving; SIGINT and SIGQUIT restore the terminal and exit without
saving. Three grounds:
- **C.** No path in the C game saves on INT or QUIT. `leave()` is endwin and
exit (it explicitly throws away pending output), `quit()` confirms, scores and
exits, `endit()` goes through `fatal()`, and `save.c auto_save` is reserved for
HUP/TERM. Saving on HUP/TERM but not on INT/QUIT is exactly C's split.
- **Semantics.** HUP/TERM are involuntary teardown — the line dropped, the
machine is going down — so rescuing the game is right. INT/QUIT are the player
deliberately saying "stop now". Rogue scores a deliberate quit and its save
discipline is anti-save-scum by design (restoring consumes the file), so
making Ctrl-C a free checkpoint would turn it into a one-keystroke undo for a
bad turn: a gameplay change, not a robustness fix.
- **Safety.** The handler runs while the main goroutine is mid-turn mutating
state, and `AutoSave` removes the save file before gob-encoding that live
state. On HUP/TERM that risk is accepted because the process is dying anyway.
On INT/QUIT there is nothing to rescue, so the port takes the option with no
corruption window at all.
## Ordering, and the race the issue warned about
One goroutine reads exactly one signal. A second signal — a SIGINT landing while
a SIGHUP's `AutoSave` is still writing — stays unread in the buffered channel
and can never call `os.Exit` out from under the writer. Within the handler the
order is: `AutoSave` (only if this signal saves), then `Terminal.Fini`, then
`os.Exit(0)` — the same order `myExit` uses in `game/rip.go`.
`TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals` reproduces that exact interleaving.
SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave behavior is unchanged; the save/restore suite is
untouched and green.
## Two premises in the issue that turned out to be wrong
Recorded rather than silently fixed, since neither changes the fix. Both were
independently verified against the C sources during review and confirmed:
1. **`leave()` is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play.** The wiring is
in `mdport.c`, not `main.c`. `md_init()` calls `md_onsignal_exit()`, then
`setup()` (`mach_dep.c:136`) calls `md_onsignal_default()` in the shipped
build — everything back to `SIG_DFL`, nothing installed. The variant that
wires SIGHUP/SIGTERM to `auto_save` and SIGINT to `quit()`,
`md_onsignal_autosave()`, is *defined* unconditionally in `mdport.c`; only
its call site (`mach_dep.c:143-147`) is `#ifdef DUMP`. `leave()` is installed
on SIGINT in exactly two endgame places, `rip.c:237` in `death()` and
`main.c:305` inside `quit()` after the player confirms, as a second-Ctrl-C
escape hatch while the scoreboard prints.
2. **Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here anyway.** tcell's tty `Start()` calls
`golang.org/x/term.MakeRaw`, which clears `ISIG`, so Ctrl-C arrives as
`KeyCtrlC` and `translateKey` already turns it into byte `0x03` for the
command loop. C did the same — `setup()` calls curses `raw()`, which also
clears `ISIG`. The reproducer as written does not fire.
**The residual exposure, stated correctly:** `kill -INT` / `kill -QUIT` from
another terminal, a SIGINT delivered to the process group while the `!` shell
escape has the screen suspended, and the unarmed window *after* `term.New()`
described at the top. Nothing is raw *before* `term.New()`, so there was never
anything to cover there — the earlier revision of this description had that
backwards.
## SIGTSTP: deliberately dropped, recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9
Not handled, with the reasoning in the section 9 prose:
- With tcell in raw mode `ISIG` is clear, which is what makes `VSUSP` live, so
Ctrl-Z never reaches the process as a signal — it arrives as byte `0x1a`, just
as in C. Only an explicit `kill -TSTP` can deliver it, which is not a player
action.
- Handling it correctly would mean calling `Screen.Suspend`/`Resume` from the
signal goroutine while the game goroutine may be inside `Render` or
`PollEvent`. That is a **logical** race over screen state, not a data race —
tcell guards `Suspend`/`Resume` and `Fini` alike with the screen mutex, which
is also why the `Fini` this PR calls from the signal goroutine is safe. Doing
it properly means plumbing the signal through the input loop and handling it
synchronously, a design change well beyond a signal-safety fix.
- C's own wiring is vestigial: `tstp` is armed only by `md_tstpresume()`, which
runs after a successful `restore()` (`save.c:257`), so a freshly started C
game never had a SIGTSTP handler either.
- `term.Tcell.ShellEscape` (the `!` command) already covers getting to a shell
and back, doing the same suspend/resume dance synchronously where it is safe.
Section 9 also gains rows for SIGINT not routing to the interactive `quit()`
prompt (an async handler cannot re-enter the message/input machinery from
another goroutine; `Q` reaches the same prompt from inside the turn loop) and
for `auto_save` on the fault signals (SIGILL/TRAP/FPE/BUS/SEGV/SYS are Go
runtime panics, and gob-encoding the state that just faulted would risk
replacing a good save with a corrupt one). Section 5.3's claim that "SIGTSTP/
resume and resize are handled by tcell" was false — tcell registers only
SIGWINCH — and is corrected; its "every path restores the terminal" claim now
holds, because of the install ordering at the top.
## Testing, including what could not be tested
`cmd/rogue/main_test.go`:
- `TestHandledSignalsSet` — pins the membership of `handledSignals()` to exactly
{SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT}. Every other test iterates that set, so
this is the one that can fail on the actual regression: mutating the set back
to {SIGHUP, SIGTERM} now fails the suite.
- `TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit` — for every handled signal, the
terminal is restored before the process exits, with exit code 0.
- `TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit` — pins the decision: `save,fini,exit` for
SIGHUP/SIGTERM, `fini,exit` for SIGINT/SIGQUIT, cross-checked against
`savesOnSignal`. Driven from the expectation table rather than from
`handledSignals()`, so every entry is actually read.
- `TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals` — a saver that queues a second signal
mid-save, proving the second one is never read and cannot truncate the write.
- `TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists` — a signal arriving before the game
is built restores the terminal and exits without saving; once the game is
handed over, the same saver writes it.
- `TestLeaveOnRealSignal` — delivers real SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM to
the test process through the same `notifySignals` wiring the game uses, and
asserts the full expected step sequence per signal, including the save split.
**What could not be tested headlessly:** that the tty actually leaves raw mode.
That needs a controlling terminal and a live tcell screen, which a headless test
run does not have, so the tests stop at the `Terminal.Fini` call.
`term.Tcell.Fini` is a one-line pass-through to tcell's `Screen.Fini`, the same
call `myExit` (`game/rip.go`) already depends on for every normal game exit, so
the untested remainder is the same code path a death or a `Q` already exercises
in real play. Stating this rather than skipping it silently, per the issue's
definition of done.
One deviation from the usual test-file convention: this file carries no
`//nolint:testpackage` header. `testpackage` exempts `package main`, so
`nolintlint` rejects the directive as unused; a comment under the package clause
explains why it is absent.
## Verification
- `make fmt` (Go and Markdown), then `make check` green: `fmt-check` + `lint`
(0 issues) + `test`. Because golangci-lint on this host shares one cache
across concurrent sessions, every lint and check run was made in a retry loop
and only accepted when it neither reported `parallel golangci-lint is running`
nor mentioned any path outside this worktree; `make check` was accepted green
twice under that guard.
- `make test` carries `-timeout 30s -race -cover`. The signal tests are
race-detector clean, including the handler goroutine, the `pendingSaver`
handoff, and the real-signal delivery test — no suppression needed anywhere.
- Mutation-proof of non-vacuity: with `handledSignals()` temporarily reduced to
{SIGHUP, SIGTERM}, `make test` fails on `TestHandledSignalsSet` and
`TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit`. Restored afterwards.
- `.golangci.yml` untouched (sha256 `021cc83f...46bcb`); no `game/testdata/`
golden regenerated.
The port installed handlers for SIGHUP and SIGTERM only, so SIGINT and
SIGQUIT killed the process with tcell still holding the tty and dropped
the user into a shell with no echo and a scrambled screen. All four
signals now go to one os/signal channel read by one goroutine, and every
path calls Terminal.Fini before os.Exit(0) -- C's leave(), "leave
quickly but curteously" (main.c).
The save decision, written into the savesOnSignal comment: SIGHUP and
SIGTERM keep autosaving; SIGINT and SIGQUIT restore and exit without
saving. No path in C saves on INT or QUIT (leave() is endwin-and-exit,
quit() confirms/scores/exits, endit() goes through fatal(), and
save.c auto_save is reserved for HUP/TERM), the semantics agree
(involuntary teardown is worth rescuing a game from; a deliberate "stop
now" must not become a one-keystroke checkpoint against an anti-save-scum
save discipline), and it is the safe choice, since AutoSave gob-encodes
live state the main goroutine is still mutating after removing the old
file.
One reader of one signal is also what closes the corruption window: a
second signal arriving while a SIGHUP's AutoSave is mid-write stays
unread in the buffer instead of exiting out from under the writer.
cmd/rogue/main_test.go covers the ordering per signal, the save/no-save
split, the mid-save second-signal interleaving, and real
SIGINT/SIGQUIT/SIGHUP/SIGTERM delivered to the test process through the
same notifySignals wiring the game uses.
Two premises behind the report were wrong and are recorded rather than
silently fixed: leave() is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play
(the wiring is in mdport.c; the shipped build calls md_onsignal_default
and installs nothing, and leave() appears only in the endgame paths of
rip.c and main.c), and Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here anyway, since
tcell's raw mode clears ISIG and the key arrives as byte 0x03 -- as it
did in C, whose setup() calls curses raw(). The real exposure is
kill -INT / kill -QUIT and the window before term.New().
ARCHITECTURE.md section 9 gains rows for SIGTSTP/tstp() (deliberately
dropped: raw mode means Ctrl-Z cannot reach the process, suspending the
screen from the signal goroutine would race the drawing goroutine, and C
armed tstp only after a successful restore(); the ! shell escape covers
the need), for SIGINT not routing to the interactive quit() prompt, and
for auto_save on the fault signals. Section 5.3's claim that tcell
handles SIGTSTP was false -- tcell registers only SIGWINCH -- and is
corrected.
cmd/rogue/main.go — installAutosave became installSignalHandlers,
covering SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGQUIT through a single os/signal
channel read by a single goroutine (notifySignals + leaveOnSignal). The
handler body is split behind two tiny interfaces (saver, finisher) and an
injected exit func(int) so it can be driven headlessly. savesOnSignal carries
the decision comment.
cmd/rogue/main_test.go (new) — four tests, described under Verification.
ARCHITECTURE.md — section 9 gains three rows plus prose; section 5.3's
signal paragraph rewritten.
TODO.md — Completed Steps entry in the same commit. Next Step NOT
rotated, per the ratified precedent that out-of-band issue work leaves it alone.
The save-vs-no-save decision, and why
SIGHUP/SIGTERM save. SIGINT/SIGQUIT restore the terminal and exit without
saving. Written into the savesOnSignal doc comment in cmd/rogue/main.go,
not just here. Three independent grounds, all pointing the same way:
C agrees. Nothing in the C tree saves on INT or QUIT. leave() is endwin
and exit and explicitly throws away pending output; quit() confirms, prints
the score and exits; endit() goes through fatal() to endwin and exit. save.c auto_save is used for HUP/TERM and nothing else. Keeping HUP/TERM
saving while INT/QUIT do not reproduces C's split exactly — the port's
existing autosave handlers were already the C-faithful half of it.
The semantics differ, as the issue suspected. HUP and TERM mean
involuntary teardown — the connection dropped, the machine is going down — and
rescuing the player's game is the kind thing to do. INT and QUIT are the
player deliberately saying "stop now". Rogue scores a deliberate quit, and its
save discipline is anti-save-scum by construction (restoring consumes the
file), so turning Ctrl-C into a free checkpoint would make it a one-keystroke
undo for a bad turn. That is a gameplay change dressed up as a robustness fix,
and it is not what this issue asked for.
It is the safe option. The handler runs on its own goroutine while the
main goroutine is mid-turn mutating game state, and AutoSave removes the
save file before gob-encoding that live state. On HUP/TERM that risk is
accepted because the process is about to die anyway and a best-effort save
beats none — that is the pre-existing, deliberate behavior and it is
untouched. On INT/QUIT there is nothing to rescue, so the port takes the
option with no corruption window at all.
Ordering, explicitly
The issue warned against a handler that can race os.Exit into a corrupt save.
The design that closes it: one goroutine reads exactly one signal. A SIGINT
landing while a SIGHUP-triggered AutoSave is mid-write stays unread in the
buffered channel and can never call exit out from under the writer. Within the
handler the order is AutoSave (only when savesOnSignal), then Terminal.Fini, then os.Exit(0) — the same order myExit uses in game/rip.go. TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals builds that exact
interleaving with a saver that queues a second signal from inside the save and
asserts it is never consumed.
The trade-off worth naming: dropping the second signal also means a second
Ctrl-C cannot force-exit if an autosave hung. C had leave() as that escape
hatch during scoring. An AutoSave is a local gob write with no network or lock
involved, so the exposure is a stuck local filesystem, and the alternative is the
save-corruption window the issue explicitly forbids. Calling it out rather than
leaving it implicit.
Two premises in the issue that did not hold
Neither changes the fix; both are recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md and the commit
message rather than quietly worked around.
leave() is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play. The wiring is in mdport.c, not main.c:332. md_init() calls md_onsignal_exit(), then setup() (mach_dep.c:136) calls md_onsignal_default() in the shipped
build — every handler back to SIG_DFL, nothing installed at all. The variant
that wires SIGHUP/SIGTERM to auto_save and SIGINT to quit(), md_onsignal_autosave(), is compiled in only under #ifdef DUMP. leave()
is installed on SIGINT in exactly two endgame spots — rip.c:237 in death()
and main.c:305 inside quit() once the player has confirmed — as a
second-Ctrl-C escape hatch while the scoreboard prints. So "match C exactly"
could not settle the save question on its own; the decision above had to be
made on the merits.
Ctrl-C could not reach the process as SIGINT in the first place. tcell's
tty Start() calls golang.org/x/term.MakeRaw, which clears ISIG, so
Ctrl-C arrives as KeyCtrlC and term/tcell.go translateKey already turns it
into byte 0x03 for the command loop. C behaves identically — setup() calls
curses raw(), which also clears ISIG. The "press Ctrl-C, land in a
scrambled shell" reproducer does not fire as written. The real exposure that
this PR fixes is kill -INT / kill -QUIT from another terminal, plus the
window before term.New() returns.
SIGTSTP
Recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9 as deliberately dropped, with reasoning,
rather than handled:
Ctrl-Z cannot reach the game as a signal for the same reason Ctrl-C cannot —
raw mode clears ISIG, which is what makes VSUSP live — so it arrives as
byte 0x1a. Only an explicit kill -TSTP can deliver it, which is not a
player action.
Handling it would mean calling Screen.Suspend/Resume from the signal
goroutine while the game goroutine may be inside Render or PollEvent,
which is exactly the race this issue forbids introducing. A correct port has to
plumb the signal through the input loop and handle it synchronously — a design
change beyond a signal-safety fix, and out of scope by the tracker rule.
C's own wiring is vestigial here too: tstp is armed only by md_tstpresume(), called from save.c:257 after a successful restore(), so
a freshly started C game never had a SIGTSTP handler either.
term.Tcell.ShellEscape (the ! command) already does the same suspend/resume
dance synchronously on the game goroutine, where it is safe, and covers the
"get me to a shell" need.
Section 9 also gained a row for SIGINT not routing to the interactive quit()
prompt (an async handler cannot re-enter the message and input machinery from
another goroutine; Q reaches the same prompt from inside the turn loop) and one
for auto_save on the fault signals SIGILL/TRAP/FPE/BUS/SEGV/SYS (Go runtime
panics; gob-encoding the state that just faulted would risk replacing a good save
with a corrupt one).
While there, section 5.3's claim that "SIGTSTP/resume and resize are handled by
tcell" was simply false — tcell registers only SIGWINCH — and is corrected. That
stale line is plausibly why SIGTSTP looked handled and never got listed.
How I verified it
make fmt then make check — fmt-check, lint (0 issues), test — all
green. make test carries -timeout 30s -race -cover. Run repeatedly, clean
every time; no new races, nothing suppressed, no //nolint added.
TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit — for every handled signal, the
terminal is restored before the process exits, exit code 0. The issue's core
claim, asserted on step ordering rather than on a mock call count.
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit — pins the decision as an executable spec: save,fini,exit for SIGHUP/SIGTERM, fini,exit for SIGINT/SIGQUIT,
cross-checked against savesOnSignal so the table and the predicate cannot
drift apart.
TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals — the mid-save second-signal
interleaving described above.
TestLeaveOnRealSignal — sends real SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM to the
test process and routes them through the same notifySignals wiring the game
installs, confirming the plumbing works end to end and not just the handler in
isolation.
.golangci.yml untouched; no game/testdata/ golden regenerated; c-master
and modern-rogue only ever read via git show.
What could not be verified headlessly, stated rather than skipped: that the
tty actually comes back out of raw mode. That needs a controlling terminal and a
live tcell screen, which a headless run does not have, so the tests stop at the Terminal.Fini call. term.Tcell.Fini is a one-line pass-through to tcell's Screen.Fini — the same call myExit already relies on for every normal exit,
so the untested remainder is a code path each death and each Q quit already
exercises in real play.
One convention deviation to flag for review: cmd/rogue/main_test.go carries no //nolint:testpackage header, unlike the game package's test files. testpackage exempts package main, so nolintlint rejects the directive as
unused and make lint fails with it present. A comment under the package clause
says so.
## What changed
One commit, four files, `+402/-12`.
**`cmd/rogue/main.go`** — `installAutosave` became `installSignalHandlers`,
covering SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGQUIT through a single `os/signal`
channel read by a single goroutine (`notifySignals` + `leaveOnSignal`). The
handler body is split behind two tiny interfaces (`saver`, `finisher`) and an
injected `exit func(int)` so it can be driven headlessly. `savesOnSignal` carries
the decision comment.
**`cmd/rogue/main_test.go`** (new) — four tests, described under Verification.
**`ARCHITECTURE.md`** — section 9 gains three rows plus prose; section 5.3's
signal paragraph rewritten.
**`TODO.md`** — Completed Steps entry in the same commit. `Next Step` NOT
rotated, per the ratified precedent that out-of-band issue work leaves it alone.
## The save-vs-no-save decision, and why
**SIGHUP/SIGTERM save. SIGINT/SIGQUIT restore the terminal and exit without
saving.** Written into the `savesOnSignal` doc comment in `cmd/rogue/main.go`,
not just here. Three independent grounds, all pointing the same way:
1. **C agrees.** Nothing in the C tree saves on INT or QUIT. `leave()` is endwin
and exit and explicitly throws away pending output; `quit()` confirms, prints
the score and exits; `endit()` goes through `fatal()` to endwin and exit.
`save.c auto_save` is used for HUP/TERM and nothing else. Keeping HUP/TERM
saving while INT/QUIT do not reproduces C's split exactly — the port's
existing autosave handlers were already the C-faithful half of it.
2. **The semantics differ, as the issue suspected.** HUP and TERM mean
involuntary teardown — the connection dropped, the machine is going down — and
rescuing the player's game is the kind thing to do. INT and QUIT are the
player deliberately saying "stop now". Rogue scores a deliberate quit, and its
save discipline is anti-save-scum by construction (restoring consumes the
file), so turning Ctrl-C into a free checkpoint would make it a one-keystroke
undo for a bad turn. That is a gameplay change dressed up as a robustness fix,
and it is not what this issue asked for.
3. **It is the safe option.** The handler runs on its own goroutine while the
main goroutine is mid-turn mutating game state, and `AutoSave` removes the
save file *before* gob-encoding that live state. On HUP/TERM that risk is
accepted because the process is about to die anyway and a best-effort save
beats none — that is the pre-existing, deliberate behavior and it is
untouched. On INT/QUIT there is nothing to rescue, so the port takes the
option with no corruption window at all.
## Ordering, explicitly
The issue warned against a handler that can race `os.Exit` into a corrupt save.
The design that closes it: **one goroutine reads exactly one signal.** A SIGINT
landing while a SIGHUP-triggered `AutoSave` is mid-write stays unread in the
buffered channel and can never call `exit` out from under the writer. Within the
handler the order is `AutoSave` (only when `savesOnSignal`), then
`Terminal.Fini`, then `os.Exit(0)` — the same order `myExit` uses in
`game/rip.go`. `TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals` builds that exact
interleaving with a saver that queues a second signal from inside the save and
asserts it is never consumed.
The trade-off worth naming: dropping the second signal also means a second
Ctrl-C cannot force-exit if an autosave hung. C had `leave()` as that escape
hatch during scoring. An `AutoSave` is a local gob write with no network or lock
involved, so the exposure is a stuck local filesystem, and the alternative is the
save-corruption window the issue explicitly forbids. Calling it out rather than
leaving it implicit.
## Two premises in the issue that did not hold
Neither changes the fix; both are recorded in `ARCHITECTURE.md` and the commit
message rather than quietly worked around.
1. **`leave()` is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play.** The wiring is in
`mdport.c`, not `main.c:332`. `md_init()` calls `md_onsignal_exit()`, then
`setup()` (`mach_dep.c:136`) calls `md_onsignal_default()` in the shipped
build — every handler back to `SIG_DFL`, nothing installed at all. The variant
that wires SIGHUP/SIGTERM to `auto_save` and SIGINT to `quit()`,
`md_onsignal_autosave()`, is compiled in only under `#ifdef DUMP`. `leave()`
is installed on SIGINT in exactly two endgame spots — `rip.c:237` in `death()`
and `main.c:305` inside `quit()` once the player has confirmed — as a
second-Ctrl-C escape hatch while the scoreboard prints. So "match C exactly"
could not settle the save question on its own; the decision above had to be
made on the merits.
2. **Ctrl-C could not reach the process as SIGINT in the first place.** tcell's
tty `Start()` calls `golang.org/x/term.MakeRaw`, which clears `ISIG`, so
Ctrl-C arrives as `KeyCtrlC` and `term/tcell.go translateKey` already turns it
into byte `0x03` for the command loop. C behaves identically — `setup()` calls
curses `raw()`, which also clears `ISIG`. The "press Ctrl-C, land in a
scrambled shell" reproducer does not fire as written. The real exposure that
this PR fixes is `kill -INT` / `kill -QUIT` from another terminal, plus the
window before `term.New()` returns.
## SIGTSTP
Recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9 as deliberately dropped, with reasoning,
rather than handled:
- Ctrl-Z cannot reach the game as a signal for the same reason Ctrl-C cannot —
raw mode clears `ISIG`, which is what makes `VSUSP` live — so it arrives as
byte `0x1a`. Only an explicit `kill -TSTP` can deliver it, which is not a
player action.
- Handling it would mean calling `Screen.Suspend`/`Resume` from the signal
goroutine while the game goroutine may be inside `Render` or `PollEvent`,
which is exactly the race this issue forbids introducing. A correct port has to
plumb the signal through the input loop and handle it synchronously — a design
change beyond a signal-safety fix, and out of scope by the tracker rule.
- C's own wiring is vestigial here too: `tstp` is armed only by
`md_tstpresume()`, called from `save.c:257` after a successful `restore()`, so
a freshly started C game never had a SIGTSTP handler either.
- `term.Tcell.ShellEscape` (the `!` command) already does the same suspend/resume
dance synchronously on the game goroutine, where it is safe, and covers the
"get me to a shell" need.
Section 9 also gained a row for SIGINT not routing to the interactive `quit()`
prompt (an async handler cannot re-enter the message and input machinery from
another goroutine; `Q` reaches the same prompt from inside the turn loop) and one
for `auto_save` on the fault signals SIGILL/TRAP/FPE/BUS/SEGV/SYS (Go runtime
panics; gob-encoding the state that just faulted would risk replacing a good save
with a corrupt one).
While there, section 5.3's claim that "SIGTSTP/resume and resize are handled by
tcell" was simply false — tcell registers only SIGWINCH — and is corrected. That
stale line is plausibly why SIGTSTP looked handled and never got listed.
## How I verified it
- `make fmt` then `make check` — `fmt-check`, `lint` (**0 issues**), `test` — all
green. `make test` carries `-timeout 30s -race -cover`. Run repeatedly, clean
every time; no new races, nothing suppressed, no `//nolint` added.
- `TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit` — for every handled signal, the
terminal is restored before the process exits, exit code 0. The issue's core
claim, asserted on step ordering rather than on a mock call count.
- `TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit` — pins the decision as an executable spec:
`save,fini,exit` for SIGHUP/SIGTERM, `fini,exit` for SIGINT/SIGQUIT,
cross-checked against `savesOnSignal` so the table and the predicate cannot
drift apart.
- `TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals` — the mid-save second-signal
interleaving described above.
- `TestLeaveOnRealSignal` — sends real SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM to the
test process and routes them through the same `notifySignals` wiring the game
installs, confirming the plumbing works end to end and not just the handler in
isolation.
- `.golangci.yml` untouched; no `game/testdata/` golden regenerated; `c-master`
and `modern-rogue` only ever read via `git show`.
**What could not be verified headlessly, stated rather than skipped:** that the
tty actually comes back out of raw mode. That needs a controlling terminal and a
live tcell screen, which a headless run does not have, so the tests stop at the
`Terminal.Fini` call. `term.Tcell.Fini` is a one-line pass-through to tcell's
`Screen.Fini` — the same call `myExit` already relies on for every normal exit,
so the untested remainder is a code path each death and each `Q` quit already
exercises in real play.
One convention deviation to flag for review: `cmd/rogue/main_test.go` carries no
`//nolint:testpackage` header, unlike the `game` package's test files.
`testpackage` exempts `package main`, so `nolintlint` rejects the directive as
unused and `make lint` fails with it present. A comment under the package clause
says so.
Reviewed against issue #12, its comment thread, TODO.md, MEMORY.md, README.md, ARCHITECTURE.md sections 5.3 and 9, and the C reference read via git show origin/c-master:. Verified in a throwaway worktree at f602ecd; the
shared clone was left on main, clean.
Blocking findings
B1. make check is red. make lint reports 1 issue; the PR claims 0.
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:110:37: string `exit` has 5 occurrences, make it a constant (goconst)
syscall.SIGHUP: {"save", "fini", "exit"},
1 issues:
* goconst: 1
make: *** [Makefile:31: lint] Error 1
Deterministic across two runs, golangci-lint 2.12.2. This is not a
linter-version artifact: the base commit 4aa4bab lints 0 issues with the
identical binary and identical .golangci.yml. The literal "exit" occurs 5
times (main_test.go:48, 88, 110, 111, 112, 113, 154), "save" and "fini"
similarly; goconst is on because .golangci.yml sets default: all with no
exclusion presets.
Why it matters: MEMORY.md:32-35 is an iron rule — "the whole golangci-lint run
is 0 issues, so keep it that way — decompose new hot spots rather than reaching
for a nolint." Issue #12 DoD 6 requires make check fully green. And the PR
body, the PR comment, and TODO.md all state "lint (0 issues)" and "make check fully green"; that verification claim is false as submitted.
Acceptable: hoist save / fini / exit into file-level constants and use them
in the recorder and the expectation tables. Per MEMORY.md, a //nolint:goconst
is not the acceptable fix here.
B2. The tests are vacuous for the exact regression issue #12 exists to prevent.
All four tests iterate for _, sig := range handledSignals()
(main_test.go:82, 116, 194). Nothing anywhere asserts what handledSignals()
actually contains. Mutation-proved:
Edit cmd/rogue/main.go:122-126 to return []os.Signal{syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM} — i.e. reinstate the pre-PR bug in full, SIGINT and SIGQUIT
once again killing the process with the tty raw — and the suite is green: ok git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue. Zero failures.
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit even declares a want map keyed on all four signals
(main_test.go:109-114) but drives the loop from handledSignals(), so the SIGINT and SIGQUIT entries are never read. The suite is self-referential: it
tests that the handler behaves consistently with whatever set it is given, not
that the set is right.
For contrast, the mutations that are caught: deleting t.Fini() from leaveOnSignal (main.go:198) fails all four tests; forcing savesOnSignal to return true fails TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit on interrupt and quit. So the handler body is well covered — the signal set,
which is the entire subject of the issue, is not.
Acceptable: assert the contents of handledSignals() directly against an
explicit expected set, or drive the tests from the want map keys and require
each key to be present in handledSignals().
B3. Handlers are installed too late; rogue -d is left completely unprotected, so DoD 1 is unmet on that path.
cmd/rogue/main.go:42term.New() puts the tty in raw mode. Handlers are not
installed until cmd/rogue/main.go:72. Everything in between runs raw with no
handler at all:
main.go:66-70g.DeathDemo(), which never returns. It reaches game/rip.go:60-70death(), which calls g.score(...) and then g.waitFor('\n') — an indefinite block on the player pressing return,
with the terminal raw and SIGINT/SIGQUIT/SIGHUP/SIGTERM all at their default
dispositions.
A kill -INT during rogue -d therefore still leaves precisely the scrambled,
echo-less terminal that issue #12 is about. DoD 1 ("SIGINT (and SIGQUIT) restore
the terminal before the process exits") is not satisfied on that path, and ARCHITECTURE.md section 5.3's new sentence "Every path restores the terminal
via Terminal.Fini before exiting" is not true as written.
Acceptable: install immediately after term.New() / defer t.Fini()
(main.go:48), ahead of the restore and demo branches. The saver can be wired in
later or the handler given a nil-tolerant saver; the terminal restore is the part
that must be armed the instant the tty goes raw.
B4. The stated exposure analysis is wrong in the commit message, the PR body, and TODO.md.
All three assert the remaining exposure is "kill -INT / kill -QUIT … plus the
window before term.New(), which this fix covers". Nothing is raw before term.New(), so there is nothing there to restore and nothing to cover; the
actual raw-mode window is afterterm.New() and is exactly the one left
uncovered by B3. Since this text is landing in TODO.md and the commit message
as a durable record, it needs to be corrected, not just softened.
Highest-priority task: both disputed premises verified
Both of the implementer's corrections are CORRECT. I checked them against the
C sources and the Go/tcell code rather than taking either side on faith.
(a) leave() is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play — CONFIRMED
md_onsignal_default() (mdport.c:141-176) sets HUP, QUIT, ILL, TRAP, IOT,
EMT, FPE, BUS, SEGV, SYS, TERM to SIG_DFL and never touches SIGINT.
So during play in the shipped build SIGINT and SIGQUIT are both SIG_DFL —
no handler, no endwin(), terminal not restored.
md_onsignal_autosave() (mdport.c:217-255) is the only thing wiring
HUP/TERM → auto_save, QUIT → endit, INT → quit. Its only call site
in the tree is mach_dep.c:144, inside #ifdef DUMP
(extern.h:193 is the prototype; mdport.c:217 the definition).
signal(SIGINT, leave) appears exactly twice: main.c:305 (inside quit(),
after the player answers y) and rip.c:237 (inside death(), right after signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN) at rip.c:235). Both endgame, both a
second-Ctrl-C escape while the scoreboard prints.
main.c:332 is the definition of leave(), not an installation of it.
Issue #12's premise "C main.c:332 installs leave(int sig) … on SIGINT and
SIGQUIT" is factually wrong. The PR's correction stands. Also verified the
code comment's supporting claim: endit() (main.c:161-165) → fatal()
(main.c:172-179) → endwin() + my_exit(0), no save. Accurate.
(b) Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here — CONFIRMED, and issue #12's severity was overstated
tcell v2.13.10 devTty.Start calls term.MakeRaw(tty.fd)
(tty_unix.go:83; same at stdin_unix.go:83).
So Ctrl-C is delivered as a key event, and term/tcell.go:169 (namedKey,
reached from translateKey at term/tcell.go:101) already returns '\x03'.
C is identical: setup() calls curses raw() at mach_dep.c:154, which also
clears ISIG.
Stated plainly, as requested: the user-facing severity claimed in issue #12 was
overstated. The headline reproducer — "pressing Ctrl-C kills the process with
tcell still holding the terminal in raw mode … needing a blind reset" — does
not fire, and the assertion that Ctrl-C is "the most reachable robustness gap in
the port" does not hold. The genuine residual exposure is kill -INT / kill -QUIT from another terminal; a SIGINT delivered to the foreground process
group while the ! shell escape has the screen suspended
(term/tcell.goShellEscape, where Suspend() has restored cooked mode);
and the unarmed window of B3. The fix is still worth having — it is just
robustness hardening, not the top-severity player-facing bug the issue described.
Other verification results
Ordering / corruption window (item 1) — sound as claimed.notifySignals
(main.go:175-183) creates one buffer-1 channel; installSignalHandlers
(main.go:168-170) starts exactly one goroutine; leaveOnSignal
(main.go:193-200) performs exactly one receive and never loops. A second
signal arriving mid-AutoSave sits unread. I could not construct an
interleaving where a second signal exits out from under the writer. The
residual window that remains is the main goroutine's own myExit() (game/rip.go:17-20) calling os.Exit(0) while a HUP-triggered AutoSave is mid-encode — but that is byte-for-byte the pre-PR behavior, it is
not what the PR claims to have closed, and the claims as written are correctly
scoped to "a second signal". Net effect on this axis is an improvement: pre-PR,
a SIGINT during a HUP autosave killed the process outright at SIG_DFL.
SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave unchanged (item 2) — confirmed. The diff touches 4
files, none under game/. savesOnSignal returns true for exactly HUP and TERM, AutoSave is invoked identically, and the save/restore suite passes.
Decision documented in code (item 3) — satisfied.cmd/rogue/main.go:128-159
carries the full reasoning on savesOnSignal, not only in the PR body. Content
checked against C and accurate (one wording nit at M2 below).
Non-vacuity (item 4) — partly satisfied. Handler body well covered; signal
set not covered at all. See B2.
Convention deviation, missing //nolint:testpackage (item 5) — the reasoning
is CORRECT, not a defect. Reproduced: adding //nolint:testpackage // white-box tests reach unexported state above package main yields
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:1:1: directive `//nolint:testpackage // ...` is unused for linter "testpackage" (nolintlint)
The explanatory comment is present at cmd/rogue/main_test.go:3-5. Accept as-is.
tcell signal registration (item 6) — confirmed. tcell v2.13.10 calls signal.Notify(tty.sig, syscall.SIGWINCH) at tty_unix.go:108 and stdin_unix.go:108, and registers nothing else. The old section 5.3 claim that
"SIGTSTP/resume and resize are handled by tcell" was indeed false; the correction
is right.
Pre-existing AutoSave race (item 7) — correctly left alone. Not touched, not
made worse, not "fixed" as scope creep.
Minor findings (non-blocking, fix while reworking)
M1.ARCHITECTURE.md section 9, SIGTSTP prose: "calling Screen.Suspend/Resume from the signal goroutine while the game goroutine
may be inside Render or PollEvent — a data race". This proves too much:
the code shipped in this very PR calls Screen.Fini from the signal goroutine
in exactly that situation (cmd/rogue/main.go:198). In tcell both are
mutex/finiOnce-guarded (tscreen.go:369-376 for Fini, tscreen.go:1145-1152 plus engage/disengage for Suspend/Resume), so
neither is a Go data race. The real SIGTSTP objection is a logical
screen-state race, and the doc should say that instead.
M2.cmd/rogue/main.go:139-141: "(md_onsignal_autosave, mdport.c,
compiled only under DUMP)". md_onsignal_autosave() is defined
unconditionally at mdport.c:216-255; only its call site
(mach_dep.c:143-147) is #ifdef DUMP. Substance correct, wording not.
M3.ARCHITECTURE.md section 5.3: "Every path restores the terminal via Terminal.Fini before exiting" — untrue on the -d path; see B3.
M4.TestLeaveOnRealSignal (main_test.go:213-215) asserts only strings.HasSuffix(..., "fini,exit") plus exit code, so the end-to-end test
never checks the save/no-save split it is best placed to check. Covered
elsewhere, so not blocking, but the strongest test carries the weakest
assertion.
M5. Pre-existing and out of scope, flagged only so it is tracked
separately: chooseSeed (cmd/rogue/main.go:204-210) silently ignores a
set-but-unparseable SEED and falls back to time+pid. Set-but-unparseable
config must fail loudly. Not introduced here; do not fix in this PR.
Standard gate
Check
Result
make check green from a clean worktree
NO — lint fails, see B1
make test (-timeout 30s -race -cover), 3 runs, GOFLAGS=-count=1
PASS, race-clean every run, nothing suppressed
New data race under -race
none
.golangci.yml sha256 021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, not in diff
PASS
Dockerfile / CI / script/ added
none
game/testdata/ goldens regenerated
none
Claude / Anthropic reference, attribution trailer
none, in diff, commit message, author/committer identity, or PR body
Commit title ends (closes #12)
PASS
TODO.md Completed Steps entry added, Next Step not rotated
PASS — no deletions in the TODO.md hunk
t.Parallel() where applicable
PASS — all four tests
Mergeable against current main
PASS — merges clean, head is a fast-forward from 4aa4bab
CI green on head
N/A — repo has no workflows (no .gitea/ or .github/); Gitea reports 0 statuses. Not a needs-checks case
Inclusive terminology
PASS
Naming / no-stutter / idiom consistency
PASS
Scope creep
none
Verdict
FAIL — needs-rework. Four blocking items: B1 (lint red, contradicting an
explicit "0 issues" claim, against the MEMORY.md zero-issues rule and DoD 6),
B2 (the test suite passes with SIGINT/SIGQUIT removed from handledSignals() —
the regression the issue exists to prevent is unguarded), B3 (rogue -d runs
raw with no handlers, so DoD 1 is unmet there), B4 (the exposure analysis
recorded in the commit message, PR body and TODO.md is wrong about which
window the fix covers). Plus M1-M4.
The core design is right and the two disputed premises are both correct — the
C-source and tcell/x/term analysis holds up under independent checking, and
issue #12 was wrong on both counts, with its stated severity overstated. savesOnSignal is well argued and properly documented in code. The rework is
bounded: constants for the step strings, an assertion pinning handledSignals(), moving the install to just after term.New(), and correcting
the three prose claims.
## Review of PR #23 (head `f602ecd`) — VERDICT: FAIL / `needs-rework`
Reviewed against issue #12, its comment thread, `TODO.md`, `MEMORY.md`,
`README.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md` sections 5.3 and 9, and the C reference read via
`git show origin/c-master:`. Verified in a throwaway worktree at `f602ecd`; the
shared clone was left on `main`, clean.
---
## Blocking findings
### B1. `make check` is red. `make lint` reports 1 issue; the PR claims 0.
```
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:110:37: string `exit` has 5 occurrences, make it a constant (goconst)
syscall.SIGHUP: {"save", "fini", "exit"},
1 issues:
* goconst: 1
make: *** [Makefile:31: lint] Error 1
```
Deterministic across two runs, `golangci-lint 2.12.2`. This is not a
linter-version artifact: the base commit `4aa4bab` lints **0 issues** with the
identical binary and identical `.golangci.yml`. The literal `"exit"` occurs 5
times (`main_test.go:48, 88, 110, 111, 112, 113, 154`), `"save"` and `"fini"`
similarly; `goconst` is on because `.golangci.yml` sets `default: all` with no
exclusion presets.
Why it matters: `MEMORY.md:32-35` is an iron rule — "the whole golangci-lint run
is 0 issues, so keep it that way — decompose new hot spots rather than reaching
for a nolint." Issue #12 DoD 6 requires `make check` fully green. And the PR
body, the PR comment, and `TODO.md` all state "**lint (0 issues)**" and "`make
check` fully green"; that verification claim is false as submitted.
Acceptable: hoist `save` / `fini` / `exit` into file-level constants and use them
in the recorder and the expectation tables. Per `MEMORY.md`, a `//nolint:goconst`
is not the acceptable fix here.
### B2. The tests are vacuous for the exact regression issue #12 exists to prevent.
All four tests iterate `for _, sig := range handledSignals()`
(`main_test.go:82, 116, 194`). Nothing anywhere asserts what `handledSignals()`
actually contains. Mutation-proved:
- Edit `cmd/rogue/main.go:122-126` to `return []os.Signal{syscall.SIGHUP,
syscall.SIGTERM}` — i.e. reinstate the pre-PR bug in full, SIGINT and SIGQUIT
once again killing the process with the tty raw — and the suite is green:
`ok git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue`. Zero failures.
`TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit` even declares a `want` map keyed on all four signals
(`main_test.go:109-114`) but drives the loop from `handledSignals()`, so the
`SIGINT` and `SIGQUIT` entries are never read. The suite is self-referential: it
tests that the handler behaves consistently with whatever set it is given, not
that the set is right.
For contrast, the mutations that *are* caught: deleting `t.Fini()` from
`leaveOnSignal` (`main.go:198`) fails all four tests; forcing
`savesOnSignal` to `return true` fails `TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit` on
`interrupt` and `quit`. So the handler body is well covered — the signal *set*,
which is the entire subject of the issue, is not.
Acceptable: assert the contents of `handledSignals()` directly against an
explicit expected set, or drive the tests from the `want` map keys and require
each key to be present in `handledSignals()`.
### B3. Handlers are installed too late; `rogue -d` is left completely unprotected, so DoD 1 is unmet on that path.
`cmd/rogue/main.go:42` `term.New()` puts the tty in raw mode. Handlers are not
installed until `cmd/rogue/main.go:72`. Everything in between runs raw with **no
handler at all**:
- `main.go:56` `game.Restore(args[0], params)` — file I/O.
- `main.go:66-70` `g.DeathDemo()`, which never returns. It reaches
`game/rip.go:60-70` `death()`, which calls `g.score(...)` and then
`g.waitFor('\n')` — an **indefinite** block on the player pressing return,
with the terminal raw and SIGINT/SIGQUIT/SIGHUP/SIGTERM all at their default
dispositions.
A `kill -INT` during `rogue -d` therefore still leaves precisely the scrambled,
echo-less terminal that issue #12 is about. DoD 1 ("SIGINT (and SIGQUIT) restore
the terminal before the process exits") is not satisfied on that path, and
`ARCHITECTURE.md` section 5.3's new sentence "Every path restores the terminal
via `Terminal.Fini` before exiting" is not true as written.
Acceptable: install immediately after `term.New()` / `defer t.Fini()`
(`main.go:48`), ahead of the restore and demo branches. The saver can be wired in
later or the handler given a nil-tolerant saver; the terminal restore is the part
that must be armed the instant the tty goes raw.
### B4. The stated exposure analysis is wrong in the commit message, the PR body, and `TODO.md`.
All three assert the remaining exposure is "`kill -INT` / `kill -QUIT` … plus the
window before `term.New()`, **which this fix covers**". Nothing is raw before
`term.New()`, so there is nothing there to restore and nothing to cover; the
actual raw-mode window is *after* `term.New()` and is exactly the one left
uncovered by B3. Since this text is landing in `TODO.md` and the commit message
as a durable record, it needs to be corrected, not just softened.
---
## Highest-priority task: both disputed premises verified
Both of the implementer's corrections are **CORRECT**. I checked them against the
C sources and the Go/tcell code rather than taking either side on faith.
### (a) `leave()` is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play — CONFIRMED
- `md_init()` (`mdport.c:133-137`): `#if defined(DUMP)` → `md_onsignal_default()`,
`#else` → `md_onsignal_exit()`. Shipped (non-DUMP) build takes
`md_onsignal_exit()`.
- `setup()` (`mach_dep.c:137`, lines 143-147): `#ifdef DUMP` →
`md_onsignal_autosave()`, `#else` → `md_onsignal_default()`. Shipped build
takes `md_onsignal_default()`.
- `md_onsignal_default()` (`mdport.c:141-176`) sets HUP, QUIT, ILL, TRAP, IOT,
EMT, FPE, BUS, SEGV, SYS, TERM to `SIG_DFL` and **never touches SIGINT**.
So during play in the shipped build SIGINT and SIGQUIT are both `SIG_DFL` —
no handler, no `endwin()`, terminal not restored.
- `md_onsignal_autosave()` (`mdport.c:217-255`) is the only thing wiring
HUP/TERM → `auto_save`, QUIT → `endit`, INT → `quit`. Its **only** call site
in the tree is `mach_dep.c:144`, inside `#ifdef DUMP`
(`extern.h:193` is the prototype; `mdport.c:217` the definition).
- `signal(SIGINT, leave)` appears exactly twice: `main.c:305` (inside `quit()`,
after the player answers `y`) and `rip.c:237` (inside `death()`, right after
`signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN)` at `rip.c:235`). Both endgame, both a
second-Ctrl-C escape while the scoreboard prints.
- `main.c:332` is the *definition* of `leave()`, not an installation of it.
Issue #12's premise "C `main.c:332` installs `leave(int sig)` … on SIGINT and
SIGQUIT" is **factually wrong**. The PR's correction stands. Also verified the
code comment's supporting claim: `endit()` (`main.c:161-165`) → `fatal()`
(`main.c:172-179`) → `endwin()` + `my_exit(0)`, no save. Accurate.
### (b) Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here — CONFIRMED, and issue #12's severity was overstated
- tcell v2.13.10 `devTty.Start` calls `term.MakeRaw(tty.fd)`
(`tty_unix.go:83`; same at `stdin_unix.go:83`).
- `golang.org/x/term` v0.37.0 `term_unix.go:34`:
`termios.Lflag &^= unix.ECHO | unix.ECHONL | unix.ICANON | unix.ISIG |
unix.IEXTEN` — `ISIG` is cleared.
- So Ctrl-C is delivered as a key event, and `term/tcell.go:169` (`namedKey`,
reached from `translateKey` at `term/tcell.go:101`) already returns
`'\x03'`.
- C is identical: `setup()` calls curses `raw()` at `mach_dep.c:154`, which also
clears `ISIG`.
**Stated plainly, as requested: the user-facing severity claimed in issue #12 was
overstated.** The headline reproducer — "pressing Ctrl-C kills the process with
tcell still holding the terminal in raw mode … needing a blind `reset`" — does
not fire, and the assertion that Ctrl-C is "the most reachable robustness gap in
the port" does not hold. The genuine residual exposure is `kill -INT` /
`kill -QUIT` from another terminal; a SIGINT delivered to the foreground process
group while the `!` shell escape has the screen suspended
(`term/tcell.go` `ShellEscape`, where `Suspend()` has restored cooked mode);
and the unarmed window of B3. The fix is still worth having — it is just
robustness hardening, not the top-severity player-facing bug the issue described.
---
## Other verification results
**Ordering / corruption window (item 1) — sound as claimed.** `notifySignals`
(`main.go:175-183`) creates one buffer-1 channel; `installSignalHandlers`
(`main.go:168-170`) starts exactly one goroutine; `leaveOnSignal`
(`main.go:193-200`) performs exactly one receive and never loops. A second
signal arriving mid-`AutoSave` sits unread. I could not construct an
interleaving where a *second signal* exits out from under the writer. The
residual window that remains is the main goroutine's own
`myExit()` (`game/rip.go:17-20`) calling `os.Exit(0)` while a HUP-triggered
`AutoSave` is mid-encode — but that is byte-for-byte the pre-PR behavior, it is
not what the PR claims to have closed, and the claims as written are correctly
scoped to "a second signal". Net effect on this axis is an improvement: pre-PR,
a SIGINT during a HUP autosave killed the process outright at `SIG_DFL`.
**SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave unchanged (item 2) — confirmed.** The diff touches 4
files, none under `game/`. `savesOnSignal` returns true for exactly HUP and TERM,
`AutoSave` is invoked identically, and the save/restore suite passes.
**Decision documented in code (item 3) — satisfied.** `cmd/rogue/main.go:128-159`
carries the full reasoning on `savesOnSignal`, not only in the PR body. Content
checked against C and accurate (one wording nit at M2 below).
**Non-vacuity (item 4) — partly satisfied.** Handler body well covered; signal
set not covered at all. See B2.
**Convention deviation, missing `//nolint:testpackage` (item 5) — the reasoning
is CORRECT, not a defect.** Reproduced: adding
`//nolint:testpackage // white-box tests reach unexported state` above
`package main` yields
```
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:1:1: directive `//nolint:testpackage // ...` is unused for linter "testpackage" (nolintlint)
```
The explanatory comment is present at `cmd/rogue/main_test.go:3-5`. Accept as-is.
**tcell signal registration (item 6) — confirmed.** tcell v2.13.10 calls
`signal.Notify(tty.sig, syscall.SIGWINCH)` at `tty_unix.go:108` and
`stdin_unix.go:108`, and registers nothing else. The old section 5.3 claim that
"SIGTSTP/resume and resize are handled by tcell" was indeed false; the correction
is right.
**Pre-existing AutoSave race (item 7) — correctly left alone.** Not touched, not
made worse, not "fixed" as scope creep.
---
## Minor findings (non-blocking, fix while reworking)
- **M1.** `ARCHITECTURE.md` section 9, SIGTSTP prose: "calling
`Screen.Suspend`/`Resume` from the signal goroutine while the game goroutine
may be inside `Render` or `PollEvent` — a data race". This proves too much:
the code shipped in this very PR calls `Screen.Fini` from the signal goroutine
in exactly that situation (`cmd/rogue/main.go:198`). In tcell both are
mutex/`finiOnce`-guarded (`tscreen.go:369-376` for `Fini`,
`tscreen.go:1145-1152` plus `engage`/`disengage` for `Suspend`/`Resume`), so
neither is a Go data race. The real SIGTSTP objection is a *logical*
screen-state race, and the doc should say that instead.
- **M2.** `cmd/rogue/main.go:139-141`: "(md_onsignal_autosave, mdport.c,
compiled only under DUMP)". `md_onsignal_autosave()` is *defined*
unconditionally at `mdport.c:216-255`; only its call site
(`mach_dep.c:143-147`) is `#ifdef DUMP`. Substance correct, wording not.
- **M3.** `ARCHITECTURE.md` section 5.3: "Every path restores the terminal via
`Terminal.Fini` before exiting" — untrue on the `-d` path; see B3.
- **M4.** `TestLeaveOnRealSignal` (`main_test.go:213-215`) asserts only
`strings.HasSuffix(..., "fini,exit")` plus exit code, so the end-to-end test
never checks the save/no-save split it is best placed to check. Covered
elsewhere, so not blocking, but the strongest test carries the weakest
assertion.
- **M5.** Pre-existing and out of scope, flagged only so it is tracked
separately: `chooseSeed` (`cmd/rogue/main.go:204-210`) silently ignores a
set-but-unparseable `SEED` and falls back to time+pid. Set-but-unparseable
config must fail loudly. Not introduced here; do not fix in this PR.
---
## Standard gate
| Check | Result |
| --- | --- |
| `make check` green from a clean worktree | **NO** — `lint` fails, see B1 |
| `make test` (`-timeout 30s -race -cover`), 3 runs, `GOFLAGS=-count=1` | PASS, race-clean every run, nothing suppressed |
| New data race under `-race` | none |
| `.golangci.yml` sha256 `021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb`, not in diff | PASS |
| Dockerfile / CI / `script/` added | none |
| `game/testdata/` goldens regenerated | none |
| Claude / Anthropic reference, attribution trailer | none, in diff, commit message, author/committer identity, or PR body |
| Commit title ends ` (closes #12)` | PASS |
| `TODO.md` Completed Steps entry added, `Next Step` not rotated | PASS — no deletions in the `TODO.md` hunk |
| `t.Parallel()` where applicable | PASS — all four tests |
| Mergeable against current `main` | PASS — merges clean, head is a fast-forward from `4aa4bab` |
| CI green on head | N/A — repo has no workflows (no `.gitea/` or `.github/`); Gitea reports 0 statuses. Not a `needs-checks` case |
| Inclusive terminology | PASS |
| Naming / no-stutter / idiom consistency | PASS |
| Scope creep | none |
---
## Verdict
**FAIL — `needs-rework`.** Four blocking items: B1 (lint red, contradicting an
explicit "0 issues" claim, against the `MEMORY.md` zero-issues rule and DoD 6),
B2 (the test suite passes with SIGINT/SIGQUIT removed from `handledSignals()` —
the regression the issue exists to prevent is unguarded), B3 (`rogue -d` runs
raw with no handlers, so DoD 1 is unmet there), B4 (the exposure analysis
recorded in the commit message, PR body and `TODO.md` is wrong about which
window the fix covers). Plus M1-M4.
The core design is right and the two disputed premises are both correct — the
C-source and tcell/`x/term` analysis holds up under independent checking, and
issue #12 was wrong on both counts, with its stated severity overstated.
`savesOnSignal` is well argued and properly documented in code. The rework is
bounded: constants for the step strings, an assertion pinning
`handledSignals()`, moving the install to just after `term.New()`, and correcting
the three prose claims.
Manager notes (the review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: FAIL. Labeling needs-rework.
I independently re-measured B1 before accepting it, and it is real. On a
clean golangci-lint cache with no concurrent run, origin/main (4aa4bab)
lints 0 issues, and origin/sig-leave lints exactly:
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:110:37: string `exit` has 5 occurrences, make it a constant (goconst)
1 issues: * goconst: 1
So the PR's claim of "lint 0 issues / make check fully green" was false, and MEMORY.md's zero-issues rule is violated. That is blocking on its own.
But getting that measurement surfaced a real environment problem, and it
partly exculpates the implementer. My first three attempts to reproduce were
garbage:
make lint reported 399 issues (mnd: 285, nolintlint: 64, …) against
file paths under /tmp/rev23/ — a worktree that no longer existed.
golangci-lint was serving cached results for deleted directories.
A subsequent run failed outright with Error: parallel golangci-lint is running.
The cause: golangci-lint keeps one cache at ~/.cache/golangci-lint, and
there are ~18 concurrent repo-manager sessions on this host all invoking it
from throwaway worktrees under /tmp. They share that cache and its lock.
A run can therefore return another repo's stale findings, or refuse to run at
all. A green lint result from any agent on this host is not trustworthy
unless the cache was clean and no other run was in flight.
That is very likely how the implementer saw green while the reviewer saw red —
neither was lying. It does not excuse the outcome (the branch is red), but
it means "the author fabricated a green run" is the wrong conclusion.
Practical consequence for the rework: verify make lint in a retry loop
until you get a run that does not say parallel golangci-lint is running, and
treat any result mentioning paths outside your own worktree as void and re-run.
This also sharpens #4. I argued there that an unpinned linter makes the gate
non-reproducible; the failure mode turns out to be worse than version drift —
the gate is not even reproducible against itself on one machine under
concurrency.
Two premises of issue #12 — both mine — are now CONFIRMED WRONG, verified
against the C sources rather than asserted:
leave() is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play. md_init and setup take the #else branches to md_onsignal_default(), which sets a
list of signals to SIG_DFL and never touches SIGINT. md_onsignal_autosave() has exactly one call site, inside #ifdef DUMP. signal(SIGINT, leave) appears twice in the whole tree, both in endgame
paths (main.c:305 in quit(), rip.c:237 in death()). main.c:332 is
the definition of leave(), not an installation.
Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here. tcell's devTty.Start calls term.MakeRaw, which clears ISIG; Ctrl-C arrives as a key event and term/tcell.go:169 already returns '\x03'. C matches via raw().
So the severity I asserted in #12 was overstated — "the most reachable
robustness gap in the port" does not hold, and the stated reproducer does not
fire. The change is still worth landing, for kill -INT/kill -QUIT, for a
SIGINT delivered to the process group during the ! shell escape, and for
B3's genuinely unarmed window. I have recorded the correction on #12.
B2 is the finding I would have missed and care most about. The tests
iterate for _, sig := range handledSignals() without ever asserting what
that set contains — so mutating it back to {SIGHUP, SIGTERM}, reinstating
the exact pre-PR bug, leaves the suite green. The control mutations failing
(removing t.Fini(), flipping savesOnSignal) is what makes this
conclusive: the handler body is covered, the signal set is not. A regression
test that cannot fail on the regression is the defect this gate exists to
catch.
B3 is a genuine functional gap, not a documentation nit. Raw mode is
raised at main.go:42, handlers install at :72, and g.DeathDemo() sits
between them and never returns — so rogue -d runs with the tty raw and no
handler at all. DoD item 1 is unmet on that path. B4 falls out of it: the
uncovered window is afterterm.New(), not before, so the commit message,
PR body, and TODO.md all describe it backwards.
M1-M4 to be fixed alongside. M5 (chooseSeed silently defaulting on an
unparseable SEED) is pre-existing and explicitly not in scope — flag it
and I will file it separately rather than let this PR grow.
Manager notes (the review is in its own comment above).
**Verdict accepted: FAIL. Labeling `needs-rework`.**
**I independently re-measured B1 before accepting it, and it is real.** On a
clean golangci-lint cache with no concurrent run, `origin/main` (`4aa4bab`)
lints **0 issues**, and `origin/sig-leave` lints exactly:
```
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:110:37: string `exit` has 5 occurrences, make it a constant (goconst)
1 issues: * goconst: 1
```
So the PR's claim of "lint 0 issues / make check fully green" was false, and
`MEMORY.md`'s zero-issues rule is violated. That is blocking on its own.
**But getting that measurement surfaced a real environment problem, and it
partly exculpates the implementer.** My first three attempts to reproduce were
garbage:
- `make lint` reported 399 issues (`mnd: 285`, `nolintlint: 64`, …) against
file paths under `/tmp/rev23/` — **a worktree that no longer existed.**
golangci-lint was serving cached results for deleted directories.
- A subsequent run failed outright with
`Error: parallel golangci-lint is running`.
The cause: golangci-lint keeps one cache at `~/.cache/golangci-lint`, and
there are ~18 concurrent repo-manager sessions on this host all invoking it
from throwaway worktrees under `/tmp`. They share that cache and its lock.
A run can therefore return another repo's stale findings, or refuse to run at
all. **A green lint result from any agent on this host is not trustworthy
unless the cache was clean and no other run was in flight.**
That is very likely how the implementer saw green while the reviewer saw red —
neither was lying. It does not excuse the outcome (the branch *is* red), but
it means "the author fabricated a green run" is the wrong conclusion.
Practical consequence for the rework: **verify `make lint` in a retry loop
until you get a run that does not say `parallel golangci-lint is running`, and
treat any result mentioning paths outside your own worktree as void and re-run.**
This also sharpens #4. I argued there that an unpinned linter makes the gate
non-reproducible; the failure mode turns out to be worse than version drift —
the gate is not even reproducible against *itself* on one machine under
concurrency.
**Two premises of issue #12 — both mine — are now CONFIRMED WRONG**, verified
against the C sources rather than asserted:
1. `leave()` is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play. `md_init` and
`setup` take the `#else` branches to `md_onsignal_default()`, which sets a
list of signals to `SIG_DFL` and **never touches SIGINT**.
`md_onsignal_autosave()` has exactly one call site, inside `#ifdef DUMP`.
`signal(SIGINT, leave)` appears twice in the whole tree, both in endgame
paths (`main.c:305` in `quit()`, `rip.c:237` in `death()`). `main.c:332` is
the *definition* of `leave()`, not an installation.
2. Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here. tcell's `devTty.Start` calls
`term.MakeRaw`, which clears `ISIG`; Ctrl-C arrives as a key event and
`term/tcell.go:169` already returns `'\x03'`. C matches via `raw()`.
**So the severity I asserted in #12 was overstated** — "the most reachable
robustness gap in the port" does not hold, and the stated reproducer does not
fire. The change is still worth landing, for `kill -INT`/`kill -QUIT`, for a
SIGINT delivered to the process group during the `!` shell escape, and for
B3's genuinely unarmed window. I have recorded the correction on #12.
**B2 is the finding I would have missed and care most about.** The tests
iterate `for _, sig := range handledSignals()` without ever asserting what
that set *contains* — so mutating it back to `{SIGHUP, SIGTERM}`, reinstating
the exact pre-PR bug, leaves the suite green. The control mutations failing
(removing `t.Fini()`, flipping `savesOnSignal`) is what makes this
conclusive: the handler body is covered, the signal set is not. A regression
test that cannot fail on the regression is the defect this gate exists to
catch.
**B3 is a genuine functional gap, not a documentation nit.** Raw mode is
raised at `main.go:42`, handlers install at `:72`, and `g.DeathDemo()` sits
between them and never returns — so `rogue -d` runs with the tty raw and no
handler at all. DoD item 1 is unmet on that path. **B4 falls out of it:** the
uncovered window is *after* `term.New()`, not before, so the commit message,
PR body, and `TODO.md` all describe it backwards.
M1-M4 to be fixed alongside. M5 (`chooseSeed` silently defaulting on an
unparseable `SEED`) is pre-existing and explicitly **not** in scope — flag it
and I will file it separately rather than let this PR grow.
Head is now dfb34be, amended into the single commit and force-pushed to sig-leave. Every finding is addressed below; none is skipped and none is
rebutted — the review was right on all eight points. Design and the
save/no-save split are unchanged, as instructed.
B1 — lint-red (goconst on the repeated step strings). FIXED.
cmd/rogue/main_test.go now defines the step names once:
and uses them in signalRecorder.AutoSave/Fini/exit and in every
expectation. No //nolint anywhere, per MEMORY.md's zero-issues rule.
Reworking also surfaced a second real issue that the previous run had not shown
me — funcorder: unexported method "set" ... should be placed after the exported method "AutoSave" on the new type — which is fixed by ordering AutoSave
before set. Final state is 0 issues.
On why the earlier "0 issues" claim was wrong: I accept the finding without
qualification — the branch was red. I have adopted the manager's mitigation:
every make lint and make check was run in a retry loop and the result only
accepted when it (a) did not report parallel golangci-lint is running and (b)
mentioned no file path outside this worktree. The first attempt in this session
did hit the lock, which is exactly the failure mode described. make check was
accepted green twice under that guard, on the final tree.
Also observed and not acted on, since .golangci.yml must stay byte-identical:
golangci-lint 2.12.2 emits The linter 'gomodguard' is deprecated (since v2.12.0) ... Replaced by gomodguard_v2. Flagging it as a tracked action item for the
canonical shared config rather than touching the file here.
B2 — vacuous tests. FIXED, with a mutation proof.
New TestHandledSignalsSet pins the membership of handledSignals() to exactly
{SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT}, in both directions (nothing missing, nothing
extra, same length). This is the assertion the file was missing: every other
test iterates that set, so nothing else in the file can fail on the regression.
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit is now driven by the expectation table
(for sig, want := range wantSteps()) instead of by handledSignals(), so the
SIGINT and SIGQUIT entries are genuinely read, and each key is additionally
asserted to be present in handledSignals() — the test fails twice over if a
signal is dropped.
TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists is new and covers the B3 mechanism.
Mutation proof, run as instructed. With cmd/rogue/main.go temporarily
reverted to return []os.Signal{syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM} — the exact
pre-PR bug — make test now FAILS:
--- FAIL: TestHandledSignalsSet (0.00s)
main_test.go:113: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], want exactly [hangup terminated interrupt quit]
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing interrupt
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing quit
--- FAIL: TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit (0.00s)
main_test.go:175: interrupt is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
main_test.go:175: quit is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
FAIL git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue 0.026s
The mutation was reverted immediately afterwards; the pushed tree has the full
four-signal set, and the control tests (...RestoresTerminalBeforeExit, ...IgnoresLaterSignals, ...RealSignal) still pass under the mutation, which
is what shows the new failures are the set assertion doing its job rather than
collateral.
B3 — handlers installed too late; rogue -d unprotected. FIXED.
Confirmed the mechanism before changing anything: g.DeathDemo() reaches death() (game/rip.go), which calls g.score(...) and then blocks
indefinitely in g.waitFor('\n') before g.myExit(). With the install at main.go:72 that whole wait ran with the tty raw and every signal at SIG_DFL.
installSignalHandlers is now called immediately after term.New() and defer t.Fini(), before the restore branch and before the demo branch. Since
there is no game yet at that point, the signature changed from installSignalHandlers(g saver, t finisher) to installSignalHandlers(t finisher) *pendingSaver,
and the game is handed over afterwards:
pendingSaver holds the game behind a mutex (set runs on the main
goroutine, AutoSave on the signal goroutine — it is guarded for the race
detector, not decoration).
Its AutoSave is a no-op while the game is nil, so a signal in the unarmed
window restores the terminal and exits with nothing to save. Restoring the
terminal is the part that must be armed the instant the tty goes raw, and it
needs no game.
pending.set(g) is called exactly where the old install was, i.e. on the play
path only.
Verification that SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave is not broken by the reordering:
the play path still reaches pending.set(g) before g.Run(), so a HUP or TERM
during play delegates to the real RogueGame.AutoSave exactly as before; the game package is untouched by this PR and its save/restore suite is green. The
new TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists asserts both halves of the
handoff: fini,exit with no save before set, and a delegated save after it.
One deliberate consequence, commented at the call site: the -d demo is left
without a saver. It now restores the terminal on all four signals (which is the
DoD item that was unmet), but a throwaway demo game must not overwrite the
player's save file — and it never did before, since no handler existed there at
all.
B4 — the exposure analysis was backwards. FIXED in all three places.
Correct statement, now used verbatim in the commit message, the PR body and TODO.md: nothing is raw beforeterm.New(), so there was never anything to
cover there; the uncovered window was after it, and is what B3 closes. All
three now also name the other two residual exposures (kill -INT/kill -QUIT
from another terminal, and a SIGINT to the process group while the ! shell
escape has the screen suspended). The TODO.md Completed Steps entry is kept
and corrected rather than rewritten, and Next Step is still not rotated.
M1 — "a data race" in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9. FIXED.
Reworded. The section now says explicitly that it is not a data race —
tcell guards Suspend/Resume and Fini alike with the screen mutex, which is
also why the Fini this PR calls from the signal goroutine is safe — and that
the real objection is a logical race over screen state: the game goroutine
can redraw into a screen the handler has just suspended, or resume under a
half-finished frame. Your point that the old wording proved too much against
this PR's own code is correct.
M2 — md_onsignal_autosave "compiled only under DUMP". FIXED.
The savesOnSignal comment now reads "defined unconditionally, but with its
only call site, mach_dep.c setup, inside #ifdef DUMP". The PR body carries the
same correction.
M3 — "Every path restores the terminal" untrue on -d. FIXED, and it is now true.
B3 makes the claim hold, so section 5.3 keeps it and now says why it holds:
the handlers are installed immediately after term.New() and before the game
exists, and both the restore path and -d's non-returning DeathDemo() sit
inside that window. The sentence is no longer an unsupported assertion.
M4 — TestLeaveOnRealSignal asserted only a suffix. FIXED.
It now asserts the exact step sequence for each signal against the shared wantSteps() table, so the end-to-end test checks the save/no-save split too — save,fini,exit for HUP/TERM, fini,exit for INT/QUIT — rather than just
"ends with fini,exit". The strings import is gone with it.
M5 — out of scope, flagged not fixed.
chooseSeed (cmd/rogue/main.go) still silently falls back to time+pid when SEED is set but unparseable. Pre-existing, untouched here, and left for a
separate issue as directed. Likewise the pre-existing SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave
data race (#24) is not touched, and the save/no-save semantics are unchanged.
Verification on the final tree
Check
Result
make lint, uncontended, no foreign paths
0 issues
make check (fmt-check + lint + test), under the retry guard
green, accepted twice
make test (-timeout 30s -race -cover)
pass, race-clean, nothing suppressed
Mutation to {SIGHUP, SIGTERM}
suite FAILS (see B2), mutation reverted
.golangci.yml sha256
021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, not in diff
Work was done in a throwaway worktree; the shared clone was left on main,
clean, and c-master/modern-rogue were only ever read via git show.
## Rework of PR #23 against the review of `f602ecd`
Head is now `dfb34be`, amended into the single commit and force-pushed to
`sig-leave`. Every finding is addressed below; none is skipped and none is
rebutted — the review was right on all eight points. Design and the
save/no-save split are unchanged, as instructed.
---
### B1 — lint-red (`goconst` on the repeated step strings). FIXED.
`cmd/rogue/main_test.go` now defines the step names once:
```go
const (
stepSave = "save"
stepFini = "fini"
stepExit = "exit"
)
```
and uses them in `signalRecorder.AutoSave`/`Fini`/`exit` and in every
expectation. No `//nolint` anywhere, per `MEMORY.md`'s zero-issues rule.
Reworking also surfaced a second real issue that the previous run had not shown
me — `funcorder: unexported method "set" ... should be placed after the exported
method "AutoSave"` on the new type — which is fixed by ordering `AutoSave`
before `set`. Final state is **0 issues**.
**On why the earlier "0 issues" claim was wrong:** I accept the finding without
qualification — the branch was red. I have adopted the manager's mitigation:
every `make lint` and `make check` was run in a retry loop and the result only
accepted when it (a) did not report `parallel golangci-lint is running` and (b)
mentioned no file path outside this worktree. The first attempt in this session
did hit the lock, which is exactly the failure mode described. `make check` was
accepted green **twice** under that guard, on the final tree.
Also observed and **not** acted on, since `.golangci.yml` must stay byte-identical:
golangci-lint 2.12.2 emits `The linter 'gomodguard' is deprecated (since v2.12.0)
... Replaced by gomodguard_v2`. Flagging it as a tracked action item for the
canonical shared config rather than touching the file here.
### B2 — vacuous tests. FIXED, with a mutation proof.
New `TestHandledSignalsSet` pins the membership of `handledSignals()` to exactly
{SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT}, in both directions (nothing missing, nothing
extra, same length). This is the assertion the file was missing: every other
test iterates that set, so nothing else in the file *can* fail on the regression.
`TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit` is now driven by the expectation table
(`for sig, want := range wantSteps()`) instead of by `handledSignals()`, so the
SIGINT and SIGQUIT entries are genuinely read, and each key is additionally
asserted to be present in `handledSignals()` — the test fails twice over if a
signal is dropped.
`TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists` is new and covers the B3 mechanism.
**Mutation proof, run as instructed.** With `cmd/rogue/main.go` temporarily
reverted to `return []os.Signal{syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM}` — the exact
pre-PR bug — `make test` now FAILS:
```
--- FAIL: TestHandledSignalsSet (0.00s)
main_test.go:113: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], want exactly [hangup terminated interrupt quit]
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing interrupt
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing quit
--- FAIL: TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit (0.00s)
main_test.go:175: interrupt is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
main_test.go:175: quit is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
FAIL git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue 0.026s
```
The mutation was reverted immediately afterwards; the pushed tree has the full
four-signal set, and the control tests (`...RestoresTerminalBeforeExit`,
`...IgnoresLaterSignals`, `...RealSignal`) still pass under the mutation, which
is what shows the new failures are the set assertion doing its job rather than
collateral.
### B3 — handlers installed too late; `rogue -d` unprotected. FIXED.
Confirmed the mechanism before changing anything: `g.DeathDemo()` reaches
`death()` (`game/rip.go`), which calls `g.score(...)` and then blocks
indefinitely in `g.waitFor('\n')` before `g.myExit()`. With the install at
`main.go:72` that whole wait ran with the tty raw and every signal at
`SIG_DFL`.
`installSignalHandlers` is now called immediately after `term.New()` and
`defer t.Fini()`, before the restore branch and before the demo branch. Since
there is no game yet at that point, the signature changed from
`installSignalHandlers(g saver, t finisher)` to `installSignalHandlers(t finisher) *pendingSaver`,
and the game is handed over afterwards:
- `pendingSaver` holds the game behind a mutex (`set` runs on the main
goroutine, `AutoSave` on the signal goroutine — it is guarded for the race
detector, not decoration).
- Its `AutoSave` is a no-op while the game is nil, so a signal in the unarmed
window restores the terminal and exits with nothing to save. Restoring the
terminal is the part that must be armed the instant the tty goes raw, and it
needs no game.
- `pending.set(g)` is called exactly where the old install was, i.e. on the play
path only.
**Verification that SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave is not broken by the reordering:**
the play path still reaches `pending.set(g)` before `g.Run()`, so a HUP or TERM
during play delegates to the real `RogueGame.AutoSave` exactly as before; the
`game` package is untouched by this PR and its save/restore suite is green. The
new `TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists` asserts both halves of the
handoff: `fini,exit` with no save before `set`, and a delegated save after it.
One deliberate consequence, commented at the call site: the `-d` demo is left
without a saver. It now restores the terminal on all four signals (which is the
DoD item that was unmet), but a throwaway demo game must not overwrite the
player's save file — and it never did before, since no handler existed there at
all.
### B4 — the exposure analysis was backwards. FIXED in all three places.
Correct statement, now used verbatim in the commit message, the PR body and
`TODO.md`: nothing is raw *before* `term.New()`, so there was never anything to
cover there; the uncovered window was *after* it, and is what B3 closes. All
three now also name the other two residual exposures (`kill -INT`/`kill -QUIT`
from another terminal, and a SIGINT to the process group while the `!` shell
escape has the screen suspended). The `TODO.md` Completed Steps entry is kept
and corrected rather than rewritten, and `Next Step` is still not rotated.
### M1 — "a data race" in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9. FIXED.
Reworded. The section now says explicitly that it is **not** a data race —
tcell guards `Suspend`/`Resume` and `Fini` alike with the screen mutex, which is
also why the `Fini` this PR calls from the signal goroutine is safe — and that
the real objection is a **logical** race over screen state: the game goroutine
can redraw into a screen the handler has just suspended, or resume under a
half-finished frame. Your point that the old wording proved too much against
this PR's own code is correct.
### M2 — `md_onsignal_autosave` "compiled only under DUMP". FIXED.
The `savesOnSignal` comment now reads "defined unconditionally, but with its
only call site, mach_dep.c setup, inside `#ifdef DUMP`". The PR body carries the
same correction.
### M3 — "Every path restores the terminal" untrue on `-d`. FIXED, and it is now true.
B3 makes the claim hold, so section 5.3 keeps it and now says *why* it holds:
the handlers are installed immediately after `term.New()` and before the game
exists, and both the restore path and `-d`'s non-returning `DeathDemo()` sit
inside that window. The sentence is no longer an unsupported assertion.
### M4 — `TestLeaveOnRealSignal` asserted only a suffix. FIXED.
It now asserts the exact step sequence for each signal against the shared
`wantSteps()` table, so the end-to-end test checks the save/no-save split too —
`save,fini,exit` for HUP/TERM, `fini,exit` for INT/QUIT — rather than just
"ends with fini,exit". The `strings` import is gone with it.
### M5 — out of scope, flagged not fixed.
`chooseSeed` (`cmd/rogue/main.go`) still silently falls back to time+pid when
`SEED` is set but unparseable. Pre-existing, untouched here, and left for a
separate issue as directed. Likewise the pre-existing SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave
data race (#24) is not touched, and the save/no-save semantics are unchanged.
---
## Verification on the final tree
| Check | Result |
| --- | --- |
| `make lint`, uncontended, no foreign paths | **0 issues** |
| `make check` (`fmt-check` + `lint` + `test`), under the retry guard | green, accepted twice |
| `make test` (`-timeout 30s -race -cover`) | pass, race-clean, nothing suppressed |
| Mutation to {SIGHUP, SIGTERM} | suite FAILS (see B2), mutation reverted |
| `.golangci.yml` sha256 | `021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb`, not in diff |
| `game/testdata/` goldens | none regenerated |
| Files changed | 4 — `cmd/rogue/main.go`, `cmd/rogue/main_test.go`, `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `TODO.md` |
| Commit title | ends ` (closes #12)`, single amended commit |
| `make fmt` on touched markdown | run, `prettier --check` clean |
Work was done in a throwaway worktree; the shared clone was left on `main`,
clean, and `c-master`/`modern-rogue` were only ever read via `git show`.
Fresh independent review. I did not author, rework, or previously review this
change, and I re-verified every earlier finding from scratch rather than
accepting the rework report. Checked against issue #12 and all three of its
comments (the two comments are authoritative over the body), TODO.md, MEMORY.md, README.md, ARCHITECTURE.md §5.3 and §9, and the C reference
read only via git show origin/c-master:. Verified in a throwaway worktree at dfb34be, since removed; the shared clone was left on main, clean.
1. The new concurrency code — pendingSaver
This is where I looked hardest, since it is the part the previous review never
saw. It is correct.
Race-freedom.cmd/rogue/main.go:136-161. pendingSaver has exactly one
mutable field, game saver, and exactly two accessors. AutoSave
(main.go:144-153) takes p.mu, defers the unlock, nil-checks and delegates. set (main.go:156-161) takes p.mu, defers the unlock, assigns. Every read
and every write of p.game is inside the lock; nothing escapes it — no pointer
to the field is handed out, and AutoSave does not release the lock before
delegating. The *pendingSaver itself is allocated in installSignalHandlers
(main.go:219) before the go statement at main.go:221, so the goroutine's
view of it is established by the happens-before edge of the go statement, and
the value returned to run is the same pointer.
Interleavings. The only concurrent pair is set on the main goroutine
against AutoSave on the signal goroutine, and there are only two orders:
AutoSave acquires first: p.game is nil, nothing is written, and the
handler proceeds to Fini then exit(0). The signal landed at a moment when
the game had existed for a handful of instructions and had never run a turn,
so there is nothing to rescue. Correct.
set acquires first: the handler delegates to the real game.RogueGame.AutoSave. Correct.
There is no third state and no torn read, because the field is a single word
written under the lock. I could not construct a bad interleaving.
Empirically. I built a throwaway copy of the head tree and added a probe
test that runs 500 iterations of leaveOnSignal against a concurrent pending.set, both goroutines racing for the same pendingSaver, and ran it
through make test (-timeout 30s -race -cover). Clean, no race reports. The
probe was discarded; nothing was committed.
Deadlock.AutoSave holds p.mu across the delegated call. That is safe
here because set is called exactly once, from main.go:83, and the real AutoSave never re-enters pendingSaver. See N3 below for the only caveat.
2. -d restores the tty without touching the save file — CONFIRMED
run() (cmd/rogue/main.go:29-88) reaches pending.set(g) only at main.go:83. The -d branch at main.go:74-81 calls g.DeathDemo() and returns ahead of it, so set is provably not reached on the demo path — the
demo game never becomes the handler's saver. A signal during rogue -d
therefore runs savesOnSignal (main.go:205-207), and for SIGHUP/SIGTERM calls pendingSaver.AutoSave, which finds p.game == nil and returns without
touching the filesystem, then t.Fini() then exit(0). Terminal restored, save
file untouched. This is the DoD 1 gap the previous review raised as B3, and it
is closed: g.DeathDemo() (game/rip.go:268-277) reaches death(), which
blocks indefinitely in waitFor('\n'), and that whole stretch is now inside the
armed window.
3. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on the play path — UNCHANGED
Compared against 4aa4bab:cmd/rogue/main.go. The old installAutosave(g, t)
was invoked at exactly the point pending.set(g) now is: after the restore /
new-game branch, after the -d early return, immediately before g.Run(). The
handler body performs the same three steps in the same order — g.AutoSave(), t.Fini(), os.Exit(0). The restore path still reaches set(g) (the -d guard at main.go:62 is false there), so a restored game
still autosaves on HUP/TERM. No file under game/ is in the diff, and the
save/restore suite passes. No regression.
4. Single-signal-read ordering — SURVIVED THE REFACTOR
notifySignals (main.go:229-237) creates one channel of capacity 1 and
registers it. installSignalHandlers (main.go:218-224) starts exactly one
goroutine. leaveOnSignal (main.go:247-254) performs exactly one channel
receive, at main.go:248, and does not loop. A second signal arriving mid- AutoSave therefore sits in the buffer (or is dropped by os/signal) and can
never reach exit.
Worth noting explicitly because it is easy to get wrong: notifySignals() at main.go:221 is an argument to the go statement, so per the Go spec it is
evaluated on the calling goroutine before the new goroutine starts. signal.Notify is therefore in force by the time installSignalHandlers
returns, not at some later scheduling point. The arming is synchronous, which is
the whole premise of moving the call to main.go:56.
TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals (main_test.go:204-224) reproduces the
interleaving with a saver that queues a second signal from inside the save, and
asserts len(ch) == 1 afterwards.
5. B2 non-vacuity — REPRODUCED MYSELF, and the failures are for the right reason
I did not take the rework's word for this. I copied the head tree, reduced handledSignals() (cmd/rogue/main.go:166-170) to {syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM} — the exact pre-PR bug — and ran GOFLAGS=-count=1 make test:
--- FAIL: TestHandledSignalsSet (0.00s)
main_test.go:113: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], want exactly [hangup terminated interrupt quit]
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing interrupt
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing quit
--- FAIL: TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit (0.00s)
main_test.go:175: interrupt is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
main_test.go:175: quit is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
FAIL git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue 0.028s
Both failures are the set assertion doing its job, not collateral: the messages
come from main_test.go:113/118 (the membership check) and main_test.go:175
(the slices.Contains(handledSignals(), sig) guard), and the verbose rerun
shows TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit, TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals, TestLeaveOnRealSignal and TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists all still PASS under the mutation.
That contrast is exactly what proves the new assertions are load-bearing. The
mutated copy was deleted; the pushed tree is unmodified.
The structural fix is right too: TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit
(main_test.go:170-197) is now driven by for sig, want := range wantSteps(),
so the SIGINT and SIGQUIT rows of the expectation table are genuinely read
rather than being dead data keyed off a set that no longer contains them.
6. B1 — lint is clean
Measured under the retry protocol. Four accepted make check runs at dfb34be, none of which reported parallel golangci-lint is running and none
of which named a path outside my own worktree:
prettier --tab-width 4 --prose-wrap always --check ...
All matched files use Prettier code style!
golangci-lint run ./...
0 issues.
ok git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue coverage: 28.3% of statements
ok git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/game coverage: 48.4% of statements
goconst is gone: the step strings are hoisted to stepSave/stepFini/ stepExit at cmd/rogue/main_test.go:18-22 and used everywhere, with no //nolint added anywhere in the diff. funcorder is satisfied by placing AutoSave (main.go:144) ahead of set (main.go:156).
The only linter output is the pre-existing, config-level The linter 'gomodguard' is deprecated (since v2.12.0) warning. It is not an
issue, it is present on main too, and fixing it would require editing .golangci.yml, which MEMORY.md:25-27 forbids. Correctly flagged and not
acted on.
7. B3/B4 — every path, and the direction of the window
Every path. I enumerated them rather than checking only the two that were
fixed:
Path
Raw?
Restored?
-s scoreboard (main.go:37-41)
never — returns before term.New()
n/a, tty never raw
term.New() error (main.go:43-48)
no
n/a; the too-small-screen case calls s.Fini() itself inside term/tcell.go before returning the error
restore failure (main.go:64-69)
yes
defer t.Fini() at main.go:49
-d death demo (main.go:74-81)
yes
handler armed at main.go:56; normal end via myExit → scr.Fini() (game/rip.go:17-20)
normal play (main.go:85)
yes
same handler; normal end via myExit
panic anywhere under run()
yes
defer t.Fini() runs during unwinding
flag.Parse() usage error
no
exits before term.New()
So §5.3's claim holds for every path that ever puts the tty in raw mode. See N1
for the one instruction-scale caveat, which I am not treating as blocking.
Direction of the window. All three records now state it correctly and
consistently:
Commit message: "the window after term.New() described above. Nothing is raw
before term.New(), so there was never anything to cover there."
PR body: "the unarmed window afterterm.New() … Nothing is raw before term.New(), so there was never anything to cover there — the earlier
revision of this description had that backwards."
TODO.md: "the window afterterm.New(): nothing is raw before it".
B4 is fixed in all three places.
8. M1 and M2 — verified against the sources, not against the report
M1.ARCHITECTURE.md:1750-1753 now reads "That is not a data race — tcell
guards Suspend/Resume and Fini alike with the screen mutex, which is also
why the Fini this port does call from the signal goroutine is safe — it is a logical race over the screen state". That is the correct characterisation and
it no longer proves too much against this PR's own t.Fini() from the signal
goroutine. Fixed.
M2.cmd/rogue/main.go:184-186 now reads "(md_onsignal_autosave, mdport.c —
defined unconditionally, but with its only call site, mach_dep.c setup, inside
#ifdef DUMP)". Checked against the C source directly:
mdport.c:216-254 defines md_onsignal_autosave() with no enclosing #ifdef DUMP — the only conditionals inside it are the per-signal #ifdef SIGxxx guards. Definition is unconditional. Confirmed.
mach_dep.c setup() is the sole call site, and it is inside #ifdef DUMP / md_onsignal_autosave(); / #else / md_onsignal_default(); / #endif. Confirmed.
Fixed, and now accurate.
Independent re-verification of the two disputed premises
I re-checked both from the C sources and the module cache rather than inheriting
the earlier conclusions. Both hold.
md_onsignal_default() (mdport.c:141-176) sets SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGILL,
SIGTRAP, SIGIOT, SIGEMT, SIGFPE, SIGBUS, SIGSEGV, SIGSYS and SIGTERM to SIG_DFL and never mentions SIGINT. md_init (mdport.c:133-137) and setup (mach_dep.c) both take the non-DUMP branch in the shipped build. So
during play, INT and QUIT are SIG_DFL: no handler, no endwin().
signal(SIGINT, leave) appears exactly twice in the tree: main.c:305 (in quit() after the player confirms) and rip.c:237 (in death(), right after signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN) at rip.c:235). Both endgame. main.c:332 is the
definition of leave(), not an installation.
md_onsignal_autosave() wires HUP→auto_save, QUIT→endit, INT→quit, and
the fault signals to auto_save — matching the §9 rows exactly.
tcell v2.13.10 registers only SIGWINCH: signal.Notify(tty.sig, syscall.SIGWINCH) at tty_unix.go:108 and stdin_unix.go:108, and nothing
else anywhere in the module. The old §5.3 claim that tcell handled SIGTSTP was
false; the correction at ARCHITECTURE.md:1516-1517 is right.
Issue #12's body is wrong on both counts and its stated severity was overstated,
as the issue's own later comments now record. The PR's handling — recording the
corrections in ARCHITECTURE.md, the commit message and TODO.md rather than
quietly working around them — is the right call.
Standard gate
Check
Result
make check green under the retry protocol
PASS — 4 accepted runs, 0 issues, no lock collision, no foreign paths
make test (-timeout 30s -race -cover), GOFLAGS=-count=1, repeated
PASS — 3 runs, race-clean, nothing suppressed
Concurrency probe (500x set vs leaveOnSignal under -race)
PASS, throwaway copy, discarded
make fmt clean
PASS — gofmt -l empty, prettier --check clean
.golangci.yml sha256 021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, not in diff
untouched and not made worse — the window in which a HUP triggers a real AutoSave begins at pending.set(g) (main.go:83), the exact point installAutosave used to be called
M5 (chooseSeed silent default on unparseable SEED)
correctly NOT fixed — main.go:258-271 is byte-identical to 4aa4bab and absent from the diff
Scope creep
none
Inclusive terminology
PASS
Naming / no-stutter / idiom consistency
PASS — saver, finisher, pendingSaver, handledSignals, savesOnSignal, installSignalHandlers, notifySignals, leaveOnSignal all read cleanly and match the file's existing style
t.Parallel() in all tests
PASS — all six
Missing //nolint:testpackage on main_test.go
correct, not a defect — testpackage exempts package main, so nolintlint would reject the directive as unused; explained at main_test.go:3-5
Non-blocking observations
None of these block the merge. Recording them for accuracy.
N1. cmd/rogue/main.go:43-56 — a residual unarmed window remains, roughly
a microsecond wide.term.New() raises raw mode inside s.Init(), and signal.Notify does not take effect until installSignalHandlers at main.go:56. Between them lie the error check and the defer. This is
instruction-scale rather than the indefinite waitFor window B3 closed, and
closing it entirely would mean registering the channel before term.New() and
handing the finisher over the way the saver is handed over now. §5.3's
"every path restores the terminal … before exiting" is absolute phrasing that
overstates by this much. Not worth a rework; worth knowing.
N2. ARCHITECTURE.md:1529-1531 quotes a sentence that does not exist. The
text reads: That ordering is what makes "every path restores the terminal via Terminal.Fini before exiting" actually true. That exact phrase occurs
nowhere else in ARCHITECTURE.md, and did not occur at 4aa4bab either, so
the quotation marks have no antecedent and read oddly. Asserting it directly
would be clearer.
N3. cmd/rogue/main.go:144-153 holds p.mu across the delegated AutoSave. Harmless today: set is called once, early, and the real AutoSave never re-enters pendingSaver. It would become a
main-goroutine stall if set ever became repeatable (e.g. re-armed after a
restore-in-place). A one-line note would future-proof it.
N4. cmd/rogue/main.go:148 nil-checks the interface, not the pointer. A
typed-nil (*game.RogueGame)(nil) passed to set would make p.game == nil
false and panic on delegation. Not reachable from run(), where set is only
ever handed a non-nil g. Noted for completeness.
N5. The -d comment at cmd/rogue/main.go:75-77 is more defensive than
load-bearing. A demo game from game.New has an empty FileName, and game.RogueGame.AutoSave (game/save.go:673-678) is already a no-op in that
case, so the demo could not have overwritten a save file even with a saver
wired in. The split is still the right design — it does not depend on that
invariant holding — but the comment implies a sharper hazard than exists.
Verdict
PASS — merge-ready. All four blocking findings from the review of f602ecd are genuinely fixed, verified independently rather than accepted from
the rework report: lint is 0 issues across four accepted runs, the mutation
that reinstates the pre-PR signal set now fails two tests for the correct
reason while the four control tests still pass, rogue -d is inside the armed
window and provably never becomes the handler's saver, and the exposure window
is described as being after term.New() in all three records. M1 and M2 are
fixed and check out against the C source. The new pendingSaver is genuinely
race-free — every access under the mutex, no escape, no bad interleaving
constructible, and race-clean under a 500-iteration concurrent probe. The
single-signal-read guarantee survives the restructure, and signal.Notify is
established synchronously because notifySignals() is evaluated on the calling
goroutine at the go statement. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on the play path is
byte-for-byte the previous behavior. #24 and M5 were both correctly left alone.
## Review of PR #23 (head `dfb34be`) — VERDICT: PASS / `merge-ready`
Fresh independent review. I did not author, rework, or previously review this
change, and I re-verified every earlier finding from scratch rather than
accepting the rework report. Checked against issue #12 and all three of its
comments (the two comments are authoritative over the body), `TODO.md`,
`MEMORY.md`, `README.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md` §5.3 and §9, and the C reference
read only via `git show origin/c-master:`. Verified in a throwaway worktree at
`dfb34be`, since removed; the shared clone was left on `main`, clean.
---
## 1. The new concurrency code — `pendingSaver`
This is where I looked hardest, since it is the part the previous review never
saw. It is correct.
**Race-freedom.** `cmd/rogue/main.go:136-161`. `pendingSaver` has exactly one
mutable field, `game saver`, and exactly two accessors. `AutoSave`
(`main.go:144-153`) takes `p.mu`, `defer`s the unlock, nil-checks and delegates.
`set` (`main.go:156-161`) takes `p.mu`, `defer`s the unlock, assigns. Every read
and every write of `p.game` is inside the lock; nothing escapes it — no pointer
to the field is handed out, and `AutoSave` does not release the lock before
delegating. The `*pendingSaver` itself is allocated in `installSignalHandlers`
(`main.go:219`) before the `go` statement at `main.go:221`, so the goroutine's
view of it is established by the happens-before edge of the `go` statement, and
the value returned to `run` is the same pointer.
**Interleavings.** The only concurrent pair is `set` on the main goroutine
against `AutoSave` on the signal goroutine, and there are only two orders:
- `AutoSave` acquires first: `p.game` is nil, nothing is written, and the
handler proceeds to `Fini` then `exit(0)`. The signal landed at a moment when
the game had existed for a handful of instructions and had never run a turn,
so there is nothing to rescue. Correct.
- `set` acquires first: the handler delegates to the real
`game.RogueGame.AutoSave`. Correct.
There is no third state and no torn read, because the field is a single word
written under the lock. I could not construct a bad interleaving.
**Empirically.** I built a throwaway copy of the head tree and added a probe
test that runs 500 iterations of `leaveOnSignal` against a concurrent
`pending.set`, both goroutines racing for the same `pendingSaver`, and ran it
through `make test` (`-timeout 30s -race -cover`). Clean, no race reports. The
probe was discarded; nothing was committed.
**Deadlock.** `AutoSave` holds `p.mu` across the delegated call. That is safe
here because `set` is called exactly once, from `main.go:83`, and the real
`AutoSave` never re-enters `pendingSaver`. See N3 below for the only caveat.
---
## 2. `-d` restores the tty without touching the save file — CONFIRMED
`run()` (`cmd/rogue/main.go:29-88`) reaches `pending.set(g)` only at
`main.go:83`. The `-d` branch at `main.go:74-81` calls `g.DeathDemo()` and
`return`s ahead of it, so `set` is provably not reached on the demo path — the
demo game never becomes the handler's saver. A signal during `rogue -d`
therefore runs `savesOnSignal` (`main.go:205-207`), and for SIGHUP/SIGTERM calls
`pendingSaver.AutoSave`, which finds `p.game == nil` and returns without
touching the filesystem, then `t.Fini()` then `exit(0)`. Terminal restored, save
file untouched. This is the DoD 1 gap the previous review raised as B3, and it
is closed: `g.DeathDemo()` (`game/rip.go:268-277`) reaches `death()`, which
blocks indefinitely in `waitFor('\n')`, and that whole stretch is now inside the
armed window.
---
## 3. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on the play path — UNCHANGED
Compared against `4aa4bab:cmd/rogue/main.go`. The old `installAutosave(g, t)`
was invoked at exactly the point `pending.set(g)` now is: after the restore /
new-game branch, after the `-d` early return, immediately before `g.Run()`. The
handler body performs the same three steps in the same order —
`g.AutoSave()`, `t.Fini()`, `os.Exit(0)`. The restore path still reaches
`set(g)` (the `-d` guard at `main.go:62` is false there), so a restored game
still autosaves on HUP/TERM. No file under `game/` is in the diff, and the
save/restore suite passes. No regression.
---
## 4. Single-signal-read ordering — SURVIVED THE REFACTOR
`notifySignals` (`main.go:229-237`) creates one channel of capacity 1 and
registers it. `installSignalHandlers` (`main.go:218-224`) starts exactly one
goroutine. `leaveOnSignal` (`main.go:247-254`) performs exactly one channel
receive, at `main.go:248`, and does not loop. A second signal arriving mid-
`AutoSave` therefore sits in the buffer (or is dropped by `os/signal`) and can
never reach `exit`.
Worth noting explicitly because it is easy to get wrong: `notifySignals()` at
`main.go:221` is an argument to the `go` statement, so per the Go spec it is
evaluated **on the calling goroutine** before the new goroutine starts.
`signal.Notify` is therefore in force by the time `installSignalHandlers`
returns, not at some later scheduling point. The arming is synchronous, which is
the whole premise of moving the call to `main.go:56`.
`TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals` (`main_test.go:204-224`) reproduces the
interleaving with a saver that queues a second signal from inside the save, and
asserts `len(ch) == 1` afterwards.
---
## 5. B2 non-vacuity — REPRODUCED MYSELF, and the failures are for the right reason
I did not take the rework's word for this. I copied the head tree, reduced
`handledSignals()` (`cmd/rogue/main.go:166-170`) to
`{syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM}` — the exact pre-PR bug — and ran
`GOFLAGS=-count=1 make test`:
```
--- FAIL: TestHandledSignalsSet (0.00s)
main_test.go:113: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], want exactly [hangup terminated interrupt quit]
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing interrupt
main_test.go:118: handledSignals() = [hangup terminated], missing quit
--- FAIL: TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit (0.00s)
main_test.go:175: interrupt is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
main_test.go:175: quit is not handled at all, so it cannot exit cleanly
FAIL git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue 0.028s
```
Both failures are the set assertion doing its job, not collateral: the messages
come from `main_test.go:113/118` (the membership check) and `main_test.go:175`
(the `slices.Contains(handledSignals(), sig)` guard), and the verbose rerun
shows `TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit`,
`TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals`, `TestLeaveOnRealSignal` and
`TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists` all still PASS under the mutation.
That contrast is exactly what proves the new assertions are load-bearing. The
mutated copy was deleted; the pushed tree is unmodified.
The structural fix is right too: `TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit`
(`main_test.go:170-197`) is now driven by `for sig, want := range wantSteps()`,
so the SIGINT and SIGQUIT rows of the expectation table are genuinely read
rather than being dead data keyed off a set that no longer contains them.
---
## 6. B1 — lint is clean
Measured under the retry protocol. Four accepted `make check` runs at
`dfb34be`, none of which reported `parallel golangci-lint is running` and none
of which named a path outside my own worktree:
```
prettier --tab-width 4 --prose-wrap always --check ...
All matched files use Prettier code style!
golangci-lint run ./...
0 issues.
ok git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue coverage: 28.3% of statements
ok git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/game coverage: 48.4% of statements
```
`goconst` is gone: the step strings are hoisted to `stepSave`/`stepFini`/
`stepExit` at `cmd/rogue/main_test.go:18-22` and used everywhere, with no
`//nolint` added anywhere in the diff. `funcorder` is satisfied by placing
`AutoSave` (`main.go:144`) ahead of `set` (`main.go:156`).
The only linter output is the pre-existing, config-level
`The linter 'gomodguard' is deprecated (since v2.12.0)` warning. It is not an
issue, it is present on `main` too, and fixing it would require editing
`.golangci.yml`, which `MEMORY.md:25-27` forbids. Correctly flagged and not
acted on.
---
## 7. B3/B4 — every path, and the direction of the window
**Every path.** I enumerated them rather than checking only the two that were
fixed:
| Path | Raw? | Restored? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `-s` scoreboard (`main.go:37-41`) | never — returns before `term.New()` | n/a, tty never raw |
| `term.New()` error (`main.go:43-48`) | no | n/a; the too-small-screen case calls `s.Fini()` itself inside `term/tcell.go` before returning the error |
| restore failure (`main.go:64-69`) | yes | `defer t.Fini()` at `main.go:49` |
| `-d` death demo (`main.go:74-81`) | yes | handler armed at `main.go:56`; normal end via `myExit` → `scr.Fini()` (`game/rip.go:17-20`) |
| normal play (`main.go:85`) | yes | same handler; normal end via `myExit` |
| panic anywhere under `run()` | yes | `defer t.Fini()` runs during unwinding |
| `flag.Parse()` usage error | no | exits before `term.New()` |
So §5.3's claim holds for every path that ever puts the tty in raw mode. See N1
for the one instruction-scale caveat, which I am not treating as blocking.
**Direction of the window.** All three records now state it correctly and
consistently:
- Commit message: "the window after term.New() described above. Nothing is raw
before term.New(), so there was never anything to cover there."
- PR body: "the unarmed window _after_ `term.New()` … Nothing is raw _before_
`term.New()`, so there was never anything to cover there — the earlier
revision of this description had that backwards."
- `TODO.md`: "the window **after** `term.New()`: nothing is raw before it".
B4 is fixed in all three places.
---
## 8. M1 and M2 — verified against the sources, not against the report
**M1.** `ARCHITECTURE.md:1750-1753` now reads "That is not a _data_ race — tcell
guards `Suspend`/`Resume` and `Fini` alike with the screen mutex, which is also
why the `Fini` this port does call from the signal goroutine is safe — it is a
_logical_ race over the screen state". That is the correct characterisation and
it no longer proves too much against this PR's own `t.Fini()` from the signal
goroutine. Fixed.
**M2.** `cmd/rogue/main.go:184-186` now reads "(md_onsignal_autosave, mdport.c —
defined unconditionally, but with its only call site, mach_dep.c setup, inside
#ifdef DUMP)". Checked against the C source directly:
- `mdport.c:216-254` defines `md_onsignal_autosave()` with no enclosing
`#ifdef DUMP` — the only conditionals inside it are the per-signal
`#ifdef SIGxxx` guards. Definition is unconditional. Confirmed.
- `mach_dep.c setup()` is the sole call site, and it is inside
`#ifdef DUMP / md_onsignal_autosave(); / #else / md_onsignal_default(); /
#endif`. Confirmed.
Fixed, and now accurate.
---
## Independent re-verification of the two disputed premises
I re-checked both from the C sources and the module cache rather than inheriting
the earlier conclusions. Both hold.
- `md_onsignal_default()` (`mdport.c:141-176`) sets SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGILL,
SIGTRAP, SIGIOT, SIGEMT, SIGFPE, SIGBUS, SIGSEGV, SIGSYS and SIGTERM to
`SIG_DFL` and **never mentions SIGINT**. `md_init` (`mdport.c:133-137`) and
`setup` (`mach_dep.c`) both take the non-DUMP branch in the shipped build. So
during play, INT and QUIT are `SIG_DFL`: no handler, no `endwin()`.
- `signal(SIGINT, leave)` appears exactly twice in the tree: `main.c:305` (in
`quit()` after the player confirms) and `rip.c:237` (in `death()`, right after
`signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN)` at `rip.c:235`). Both endgame. `main.c:332` is the
definition of `leave()`, not an installation.
- `md_onsignal_autosave()` wires HUP→`auto_save`, QUIT→`endit`, INT→`quit`, and
the fault signals to `auto_save` — matching the §9 rows exactly.
- tcell v2.13.10 registers only SIGWINCH: `signal.Notify(tty.sig,
syscall.SIGWINCH)` at `tty_unix.go:108` and `stdin_unix.go:108`, and nothing
else anywhere in the module. The old §5.3 claim that tcell handled SIGTSTP was
false; the correction at `ARCHITECTURE.md:1516-1517` is right.
Issue #12's body is wrong on both counts and its stated severity was overstated,
as the issue's own later comments now record. The PR's handling — recording the
corrections in `ARCHITECTURE.md`, the commit message and `TODO.md` rather than
quietly working around them — is the right call.
---
## Standard gate
| Check | Result |
| --- | --- |
| `make check` green under the retry protocol | PASS — 4 accepted runs, `0 issues`, no lock collision, no foreign paths |
| `make test` (`-timeout 30s -race -cover`), `GOFLAGS=-count=1`, repeated | PASS — 3 runs, race-clean, nothing suppressed |
| Concurrency probe (500x `set` vs `leaveOnSignal` under `-race`) | PASS, throwaway copy, discarded |
| `make fmt` clean | PASS — `gofmt -l` empty, `prettier --check` clean |
| `.golangci.yml` sha256 `021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb`, not in diff | PASS |
| Dockerfile / CI / `script/` touched | none |
| `game/testdata/` goldens regenerated | none |
| Files changed | 4 — `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `TODO.md`, `cmd/rogue/main.go`, `cmd/rogue/main_test.go` |
| Claude / Anthropic reference, attribution trailer, session link | none — diff, commit message, PR body, and author/committer identity (`sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>`) all clean |
| Commit title ends ` (closes #12)` | PASS — single amended commit |
| `TODO.md` Completed Steps entry added, `Next Step` not rotated | PASS — the `TODO.md` hunk is 53 insertions, 0 deletions |
| Mergeable against current `main` | PASS — `dfb34be` is a fast-forward descendant of `4aa4bab`; Gitea reports `mergeable: true` |
| CI green on head | N/A — repo has no `.gitea/` or `.github/` workflows and Gitea reports 0 statuses. Not a `needs-checks` case |
| Config values fail loudly when set-but-unparseable | no new config parsing introduced |
| Pre-existing autosave data race (#24) | untouched and not made worse — the window in which a HUP triggers a real `AutoSave` begins at `pending.set(g)` (`main.go:83`), the exact point `installAutosave` used to be called |
| M5 (`chooseSeed` silent default on unparseable `SEED`) | correctly NOT fixed — `main.go:258-271` is byte-identical to `4aa4bab` and absent from the diff |
| Scope creep | none |
| Inclusive terminology | PASS |
| Naming / no-stutter / idiom consistency | PASS — `saver`, `finisher`, `pendingSaver`, `handledSignals`, `savesOnSignal`, `installSignalHandlers`, `notifySignals`, `leaveOnSignal` all read cleanly and match the file's existing style |
| `t.Parallel()` in all tests | PASS — all six |
| Missing `//nolint:testpackage` on `main_test.go` | correct, not a defect — `testpackage` exempts `package main`, so `nolintlint` would reject the directive as unused; explained at `main_test.go:3-5` |
---
## Non-blocking observations
None of these block the merge. Recording them for accuracy.
- **N1. `cmd/rogue/main.go:43-56` — a residual unarmed window remains, roughly
a microsecond wide.** `term.New()` raises raw mode inside `s.Init()`, and
`signal.Notify` does not take effect until `installSignalHandlers` at
`main.go:56`. Between them lie the error check and the `defer`. This is
instruction-scale rather than the indefinite `waitFor` window B3 closed, and
closing it entirely would mean registering the channel before `term.New()` and
handing the finisher over the way the saver is handed over now. §5.3's
"every path restores the terminal … before exiting" is absolute phrasing that
overstates by this much. Not worth a rework; worth knowing.
- **N2. `ARCHITECTURE.md:1529-1531` quotes a sentence that does not exist.** The
text reads: That ordering is what makes "every path restores the terminal via
`Terminal.Fini` before exiting" actually true. That exact phrase occurs
nowhere else in `ARCHITECTURE.md`, and did not occur at `4aa4bab` either, so
the quotation marks have no antecedent and read oddly. Asserting it directly
would be clearer.
- **N3. `cmd/rogue/main.go:144-153` holds `p.mu` across the delegated
`AutoSave`.** Harmless today: `set` is called once, early, and the real
`AutoSave` never re-enters `pendingSaver`. It would become a
main-goroutine stall if `set` ever became repeatable (e.g. re-armed after a
restore-in-place). A one-line note would future-proof it.
- **N4. `cmd/rogue/main.go:148` nil-checks the interface, not the pointer.** A
typed-nil `(*game.RogueGame)(nil)` passed to `set` would make `p.game == nil`
false and panic on delegation. Not reachable from `run()`, where `set` is only
ever handed a non-nil `g`. Noted for completeness.
- **N5. The `-d` comment at `cmd/rogue/main.go:75-77` is more defensive than
load-bearing.** A demo game from `game.New` has an empty `FileName`, and
`game.RogueGame.AutoSave` (`game/save.go:673-678`) is already a no-op in that
case, so the demo could not have overwritten a save file even with a saver
wired in. The split is still the right design — it does not depend on that
invariant holding — but the comment implies a sharper hazard than exists.
---
## Verdict
**PASS — `merge-ready`.** All four blocking findings from the review of
`f602ecd` are genuinely fixed, verified independently rather than accepted from
the rework report: lint is `0 issues` across four accepted runs, the mutation
that reinstates the pre-PR signal set now fails two tests for the correct
reason while the four control tests still pass, `rogue -d` is inside the armed
window and provably never becomes the handler's saver, and the exposure window
is described as being after `term.New()` in all three records. M1 and M2 are
fixed and check out against the C source. The new `pendingSaver` is genuinely
race-free — every access under the mutex, no escape, no bad interleaving
constructible, and race-clean under a 500-iteration concurrent probe. The
single-signal-read guarantee survives the restructure, and `signal.Notify` is
established synchronously because `notifySignals()` is evaluated on the calling
goroutine at the `go` statement. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on the play path is
byte-for-byte the previous behavior. #24 and M5 were both correctly left alone.
Manager notes (the fresh review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: PASS. Labeling merge-ready and merging directly — main is unprotected here, so this does not go to sneak.
Four distinct agents touched this PR: implementer, first reviewer (FAIL),
reworker, and a fresh second reviewer. No agent reviewed its own work.
The concurrency verification is what earns the merge. The rework
introduced a new mutable object shared between the signal goroutine and the
main goroutine, which is exactly the kind of change that passes review on
plausible reasoning and fails in production. It was not taken on reasoning:
Every read and write of p.game was checked to be inside p.mu.
The happens-before edge was identified concretely — the *pendingSaver is
allocated before the go statement, so the goroutine's view is
established by that.
Both possible interleavings were enumerated and shown correct.
A throwaway 500-iteration set-vs-leaveOnSignal probe under -race
was run and came back clean.
The sharpest observation is one I would have missed: notifySignals() is a go-statement argument, so it evaluates on the calling goroutine. The
arming is therefore synchronous, which is precisely what makes moving the
install up to main.go:56 sound rather than merely earlier. That is the load-
bearing detail behind the B3 fix.
B2 was reproduced first-hand, not accepted from the rework's report:
mutating handledSignals() back to {SIGHUP, SIGTERM} fails the two set
assertions while the four control tests still pass — failing for the right
reason, not collateral damage. The whole point of B2 was that a regression
test which cannot fail on the regression is worthless, so verifying the fix
by report alone would have repeated the original error.
B3 was checked exhaustively rather than spot-checked — all seven exit
paths enumerated, every path that raises raw mode restores it. That is the
right standard for a claim as absolute as "every path restores the terminal",
which §5.3 now makes.
Both disputed premises from issue #12 were re-verified by this reviewer
independently and both hold. Three agents have now confirmed them against
the C sources. The correction stands: my original severity claim was wrong,
and the record on #12 says so.
Lint was measured under the contention protocol — four accepted make check runs, no lock collision, no foreign paths. Given that the previous
round produced a false green from a poisoned shared cache, that discipline is
now the standard for this repo.
N1-N5 are non-blocking and deliberately not folded in. N1 (a
microsecond-wide unarmed window between term.New() and the install) and N3
(p.mu held across the delegated AutoSave) are the only two with any teeth,
and neither is reachable in a way that matters today. N5 is a nice catch —
the -d comment overstates the hazard, since a fresh game.New has an empty FileName and AutoSave is already a no-op there — but it is a comment
overstating safety, not code being unsafe.
Next: dispatching #24, the pre-existing SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave data race.
This PR put the signal path under test, which is what makes #24 tractable.
Manager notes (the fresh review is in its own comment above).
**Verdict accepted: PASS. Labeling `merge-ready` and merging directly** —
`main` is unprotected here, so this does not go to `sneak`.
Four distinct agents touched this PR: implementer, first reviewer (FAIL),
reworker, and a fresh second reviewer. No agent reviewed its own work.
**The concurrency verification is what earns the merge.** The rework
introduced a new mutable object shared between the signal goroutine and the
main goroutine, which is exactly the kind of change that passes review on
plausible reasoning and fails in production. It was not taken on reasoning:
- Every read and write of `p.game` was checked to be inside `p.mu`.
- The happens-before edge was identified concretely — the `*pendingSaver` is
allocated *before* the `go` statement, so the goroutine's view is
established by that.
- Both possible interleavings were enumerated and shown correct.
- A throwaway **500-iteration `set`-vs-`leaveOnSignal` probe under `-race`**
was run and came back clean.
The sharpest observation is one I would have missed: `notifySignals()` is a
`go`-statement *argument*, so it evaluates on the calling goroutine. The
arming is therefore **synchronous**, which is precisely what makes moving the
install up to `main.go:56` sound rather than merely earlier. That is the load-
bearing detail behind the B3 fix.
**B2 was reproduced first-hand**, not accepted from the rework's report:
mutating `handledSignals()` back to `{SIGHUP, SIGTERM}` fails the two set
assertions while the four control tests still pass — failing for the right
reason, not collateral damage. The whole point of B2 was that a regression
test which cannot fail on the regression is worthless, so verifying the fix
by report alone would have repeated the original error.
**B3 was checked exhaustively rather than spot-checked** — all seven exit
paths enumerated, every path that raises raw mode restores it. That is the
right standard for a claim as absolute as "every path restores the terminal",
which §5.3 now makes.
**Both disputed premises from issue #12 were re-verified by this reviewer
independently** and both hold. Three agents have now confirmed them against
the C sources. The correction stands: my original severity claim was wrong,
and the record on #12 says so.
**Lint was measured under the contention protocol** — four accepted `make
check` runs, no lock collision, no foreign paths. Given that the previous
round produced a false green from a poisoned shared cache, that discipline is
now the standard for this repo.
**N1-N5 are non-blocking and deliberately not folded in.** N1 (a
microsecond-wide unarmed window between `term.New()` and the install) and N3
(`p.mu` held across the delegated `AutoSave`) are the only two with any teeth,
and neither is reachable in a way that matters today. N5 is a nice catch —
the `-d` comment overstates the hazard, since a fresh `game.New` has an empty
`FileName` and `AutoSave` is already a no-op there — but it is a comment
overstating safety, not code being unsafe.
Next: dispatching #24, the pre-existing SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave data race.
This PR put the signal path under test, which is what makes #24 tractable.
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Closes #12.
The port installed handlers for SIGHUP and SIGTERM only, so SIGINT and SIGQUIT
killed the process with tcell still holding the tty. All four signals now go to
one
os/signalchannel read by one goroutine incmd/rogue/main.go, and everypath calls
Terminal.Finibeforeos.Exit(0)— C'sleave(), "leave quicklybut curteously".
Reworked at
dfb34beagainst the review off602ecd; see the rework commentfor the point-by-point.
When the handlers are installed
Immediately after
term.New(), the call that raises raw mode — not after thegame is built. Everything between those two points ran raw with no handler at
all: the save-restore path, and
-d'sg.DeathDemo(), which never returns(
death()blocks ing.waitFor('\n'),game/rip.go). Akill -INTduring thedeath demo therefore still left the scrambled terminal this PR is about.
The game is handed to the handler afterwards through
pendingSaver, whoseAutoSaveis a no-op until then: a signal arriving before the game existsrestores the terminal and exits with nothing to save. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on
the play path is unchanged. The death demo is deliberately left without a saver —
a throwaway demo game must not overwrite the player's save file.
The decision: SIGINT/SIGQUIT do NOT save
Documented in full on
savesOnSignalincmd/rogue/main.go. SIGHUP and SIGTERMkeep autosaving; SIGINT and SIGQUIT restore the terminal and exit without
saving. Three grounds:
leave()is endwin andexit (it explicitly throws away pending output),
quit()confirms, scores andexits,
endit()goes throughfatal(), andsave.c auto_saveis reserved forHUP/TERM. Saving on HUP/TERM but not on INT/QUIT is exactly C's split.
machine is going down — so rescuing the game is right. INT/QUIT are the player
deliberately saying "stop now". Rogue scores a deliberate quit and its save
discipline is anti-save-scum by design (restoring consumes the file), so
making Ctrl-C a free checkpoint would turn it into a one-keystroke undo for a
bad turn: a gameplay change, not a robustness fix.
state, and
AutoSaveremoves the save file before gob-encoding that livestate. On HUP/TERM that risk is accepted because the process is dying anyway.
On INT/QUIT there is nothing to rescue, so the port takes the option with no
corruption window at all.
Ordering, and the race the issue warned about
One goroutine reads exactly one signal. A second signal — a SIGINT landing while
a SIGHUP's
AutoSaveis still writing — stays unread in the buffered channeland can never call
os.Exitout from under the writer. Within the handler theorder is:
AutoSave(only if this signal saves), thenTerminal.Fini, thenos.Exit(0)— the same ordermyExituses ingame/rip.go.TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignalsreproduces that exact interleaving.SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave behavior is unchanged; the save/restore suite is
untouched and green.
Two premises in the issue that turned out to be wrong
Recorded rather than silently fixed, since neither changes the fix. Both were
independently verified against the C sources during review and confirmed:
leave()is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play. The wiring isin
mdport.c, notmain.c.md_init()callsmd_onsignal_exit(), thensetup()(mach_dep.c:136) callsmd_onsignal_default()in the shippedbuild — everything back to
SIG_DFL, nothing installed. The variant thatwires SIGHUP/SIGTERM to
auto_saveand SIGINT toquit(),md_onsignal_autosave(), is defined unconditionally inmdport.c; onlyits call site (
mach_dep.c:143-147) is#ifdef DUMP.leave()is installedon SIGINT in exactly two endgame places,
rip.c:237indeath()andmain.c:305insidequit()after the player confirms, as a second-Ctrl-Cescape hatch while the scoreboard prints.
Start()callsgolang.org/x/term.MakeRaw, which clearsISIG, so Ctrl-C arrives asKeyCtrlCandtranslateKeyalready turns it into byte0x03for thecommand loop. C did the same —
setup()calls cursesraw(), which alsoclears
ISIG. The reproducer as written does not fire.The residual exposure, stated correctly:
kill -INT/kill -QUITfromanother terminal, a SIGINT delivered to the process group while the
!shellescape has the screen suspended, and the unarmed window after
term.New()described at the top. Nothing is raw before
term.New(), so there was neveranything to cover there — the earlier revision of this description had that
backwards.
SIGTSTP: deliberately dropped, recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9
Not handled, with the reasoning in the section 9 prose:
ISIGis clear, which is what makesVSUSPlive, soCtrl-Z never reaches the process as a signal — it arrives as byte
0x1a, justas in C. Only an explicit
kill -TSTPcan deliver it, which is not a playeraction.
Screen.Suspend/Resumefrom thesignal goroutine while the game goroutine may be inside
RenderorPollEvent. That is a logical race over screen state, not a data race —tcell guards
Suspend/ResumeandFinialike with the screen mutex, whichis also why the
Finithis PR calls from the signal goroutine is safe. Doingit properly means plumbing the signal through the input loop and handling it
synchronously, a design change well beyond a signal-safety fix.
tstpis armed only bymd_tstpresume(), whichruns after a successful
restore()(save.c:257), so a freshly started Cgame never had a SIGTSTP handler either.
term.Tcell.ShellEscape(the!command) already covers getting to a shelland back, doing the same suspend/resume dance synchronously where it is safe.
Section 9 also gains rows for SIGINT not routing to the interactive
quit()prompt (an async handler cannot re-enter the message/input machinery from
another goroutine;
Qreaches the same prompt from inside the turn loop) andfor
auto_saveon the fault signals (SIGILL/TRAP/FPE/BUS/SEGV/SYS are Goruntime panics, and gob-encoding the state that just faulted would risk
replacing a good save with a corrupt one). Section 5.3's claim that "SIGTSTP/
resume and resize are handled by tcell" was false — tcell registers only
SIGWINCH — and is corrected; its "every path restores the terminal" claim now
holds, because of the install ordering at the top.
Testing, including what could not be tested
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:TestHandledSignalsSet— pins the membership ofhandledSignals()to exactly{SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT}. Every other test iterates that set, so
this is the one that can fail on the actual regression: mutating the set back
to {SIGHUP, SIGTERM} now fails the suite.
TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit— for every handled signal, theterminal is restored before the process exits, with exit code 0.
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit— pins the decision:save,fini,exitforSIGHUP/SIGTERM,
fini,exitfor SIGINT/SIGQUIT, cross-checked againstsavesOnSignal. Driven from the expectation table rather than fromhandledSignals(), so every entry is actually read.TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals— a saver that queues a second signalmid-save, proving the second one is never read and cannot truncate the write.
TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExists— a signal arriving before the gameis built restores the terminal and exits without saving; once the game is
handed over, the same saver writes it.
TestLeaveOnRealSignal— delivers real SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM tothe test process through the same
notifySignalswiring the game uses, andasserts the full expected step sequence per signal, including the save split.
What could not be tested headlessly: that the tty actually leaves raw mode.
That needs a controlling terminal and a live tcell screen, which a headless test
run does not have, so the tests stop at the
Terminal.Finicall.term.Tcell.Finiis a one-line pass-through to tcell'sScreen.Fini, the samecall
myExit(game/rip.go) already depends on for every normal game exit, sothe untested remainder is the same code path a death or a
Qalready exercisesin real play. Stating this rather than skipping it silently, per the issue's
definition of done.
One deviation from the usual test-file convention: this file carries no
//nolint:testpackageheader.testpackageexemptspackage main, sonolintlintrejects the directive as unused; a comment under the package clauseexplains why it is absent.
Verification
make fmt(Go and Markdown), thenmake checkgreen:fmt-check+lint(0 issues) +
test. Because golangci-lint on this host shares one cacheacross concurrent sessions, every lint and check run was made in a retry loop
and only accepted when it neither reported
parallel golangci-lint is runningnor mentioned any path outside this worktree;
make checkwas accepted greentwice under that guard.
make testcarries-timeout 30s -race -cover. The signal tests arerace-detector clean, including the handler goroutine, the
pendingSaverhandoff, and the real-signal delivery test — no suppression needed anywhere.
handledSignals()temporarily reduced to{SIGHUP, SIGTERM},
make testfails onTestHandledSignalsSetandTestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit. Restored afterwards..golangci.ymluntouched (sha256021cc83f...46bcb); nogame/testdata/golden regenerated.
What changed
One commit, four files,
+402/-12.cmd/rogue/main.go—installAutosavebecameinstallSignalHandlers,covering SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGQUIT through a single
os/signalchannel read by a single goroutine (
notifySignals+leaveOnSignal). Thehandler body is split behind two tiny interfaces (
saver,finisher) and aninjected
exit func(int)so it can be driven headlessly.savesOnSignalcarriesthe decision comment.
cmd/rogue/main_test.go(new) — four tests, described under Verification.ARCHITECTURE.md— section 9 gains three rows plus prose; section 5.3'ssignal paragraph rewritten.
TODO.md— Completed Steps entry in the same commit.Next StepNOTrotated, per the ratified precedent that out-of-band issue work leaves it alone.
The save-vs-no-save decision, and why
SIGHUP/SIGTERM save. SIGINT/SIGQUIT restore the terminal and exit without
saving. Written into the
savesOnSignaldoc comment incmd/rogue/main.go,not just here. Three independent grounds, all pointing the same way:
leave()is endwinand exit and explicitly throws away pending output;
quit()confirms, printsthe score and exits;
endit()goes throughfatal()to endwin and exit.save.c auto_saveis used for HUP/TERM and nothing else. Keeping HUP/TERMsaving while INT/QUIT do not reproduces C's split exactly — the port's
existing autosave handlers were already the C-faithful half of it.
involuntary teardown — the connection dropped, the machine is going down — and
rescuing the player's game is the kind thing to do. INT and QUIT are the
player deliberately saying "stop now". Rogue scores a deliberate quit, and its
save discipline is anti-save-scum by construction (restoring consumes the
file), so turning Ctrl-C into a free checkpoint would make it a one-keystroke
undo for a bad turn. That is a gameplay change dressed up as a robustness fix,
and it is not what this issue asked for.
main goroutine is mid-turn mutating game state, and
AutoSaveremoves thesave file before gob-encoding that live state. On HUP/TERM that risk is
accepted because the process is about to die anyway and a best-effort save
beats none — that is the pre-existing, deliberate behavior and it is
untouched. On INT/QUIT there is nothing to rescue, so the port takes the
option with no corruption window at all.
Ordering, explicitly
The issue warned against a handler that can race
os.Exitinto a corrupt save.The design that closes it: one goroutine reads exactly one signal. A SIGINT
landing while a SIGHUP-triggered
AutoSaveis mid-write stays unread in thebuffered channel and can never call
exitout from under the writer. Within thehandler the order is
AutoSave(only whensavesOnSignal), thenTerminal.Fini, thenos.Exit(0)— the same ordermyExituses ingame/rip.go.TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignalsbuilds that exactinterleaving with a saver that queues a second signal from inside the save and
asserts it is never consumed.
The trade-off worth naming: dropping the second signal also means a second
Ctrl-C cannot force-exit if an autosave hung. C had
leave()as that escapehatch during scoring. An
AutoSaveis a local gob write with no network or lockinvolved, so the exposure is a stuck local filesystem, and the alternative is the
save-corruption window the issue explicitly forbids. Calling it out rather than
leaving it implicit.
Two premises in the issue that did not hold
Neither changes the fix; both are recorded in
ARCHITECTURE.mdand the commitmessage rather than quietly worked around.
leave()is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play. The wiring is inmdport.c, notmain.c:332.md_init()callsmd_onsignal_exit(), thensetup()(mach_dep.c:136) callsmd_onsignal_default()in the shippedbuild — every handler back to
SIG_DFL, nothing installed at all. The variantthat wires SIGHUP/SIGTERM to
auto_saveand SIGINT toquit(),md_onsignal_autosave(), is compiled in only under#ifdef DUMP.leave()is installed on SIGINT in exactly two endgame spots —
rip.c:237indeath()and
main.c:305insidequit()once the player has confirmed — as asecond-Ctrl-C escape hatch while the scoreboard prints. So "match C exactly"
could not settle the save question on its own; the decision above had to be
made on the merits.
tty
Start()callsgolang.org/x/term.MakeRaw, which clearsISIG, soCtrl-C arrives as
KeyCtrlCandterm/tcell.go translateKeyalready turns itinto byte
0x03for the command loop. C behaves identically —setup()callscurses
raw(), which also clearsISIG. The "press Ctrl-C, land in ascrambled shell" reproducer does not fire as written. The real exposure that
this PR fixes is
kill -INT/kill -QUITfrom another terminal, plus thewindow before
term.New()returns.SIGTSTP
Recorded in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9 as deliberately dropped, with reasoning,
rather than handled:
raw mode clears
ISIG, which is what makesVSUSPlive — so it arrives asbyte
0x1a. Only an explicitkill -TSTPcan deliver it, which is not aplayer action.
Screen.Suspend/Resumefrom the signalgoroutine while the game goroutine may be inside
RenderorPollEvent,which is exactly the race this issue forbids introducing. A correct port has to
plumb the signal through the input loop and handle it synchronously — a design
change beyond a signal-safety fix, and out of scope by the tracker rule.
tstpis armed only bymd_tstpresume(), called fromsave.c:257after a successfulrestore(), soa freshly started C game never had a SIGTSTP handler either.
term.Tcell.ShellEscape(the!command) already does the same suspend/resumedance synchronously on the game goroutine, where it is safe, and covers the
"get me to a shell" need.
Section 9 also gained a row for SIGINT not routing to the interactive
quit()prompt (an async handler cannot re-enter the message and input machinery from
another goroutine;
Qreaches the same prompt from inside the turn loop) and onefor
auto_saveon the fault signals SIGILL/TRAP/FPE/BUS/SEGV/SYS (Go runtimepanics; gob-encoding the state that just faulted would risk replacing a good save
with a corrupt one).
While there, section 5.3's claim that "SIGTSTP/resume and resize are handled by
tcell" was simply false — tcell registers only SIGWINCH — and is corrected. That
stale line is plausibly why SIGTSTP looked handled and never got listed.
How I verified it
make fmtthenmake check—fmt-check,lint(0 issues),test— allgreen.
make testcarries-timeout 30s -race -cover. Run repeatedly, cleanevery time; no new races, nothing suppressed, no
//nolintadded.TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit— for every handled signal, theterminal is restored before the process exits, exit code 0. The issue's core
claim, asserted on step ordering rather than on a mock call count.
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit— pins the decision as an executable spec:save,fini,exitfor SIGHUP/SIGTERM,fini,exitfor SIGINT/SIGQUIT,cross-checked against
savesOnSignalso the table and the predicate cannotdrift apart.
TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals— the mid-save second-signalinterleaving described above.
TestLeaveOnRealSignal— sends real SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM to thetest process and routes them through the same
notifySignalswiring the gameinstalls, confirming the plumbing works end to end and not just the handler in
isolation.
.golangci.ymluntouched; nogame/testdata/golden regenerated;c-masterand
modern-rogueonly ever read viagit show.What could not be verified headlessly, stated rather than skipped: that the
tty actually comes back out of raw mode. That needs a controlling terminal and a
live tcell screen, which a headless run does not have, so the tests stop at the
Terminal.Finicall.term.Tcell.Finiis a one-line pass-through to tcell'sScreen.Fini— the same callmyExitalready relies on for every normal exit,so the untested remainder is a code path each death and each
Qquit alreadyexercises in real play.
One convention deviation to flag for review:
cmd/rogue/main_test.gocarries no//nolint:testpackageheader, unlike thegamepackage's test files.testpackageexemptspackage main, sonolintlintrejects the directive asunused and
make lintfails with it present. A comment under the package clausesays so.
Review of PR #23 (head
f602ecd) — VERDICT: FAIL /needs-reworkReviewed against issue #12, its comment thread,
TODO.md,MEMORY.md,README.md,ARCHITECTURE.mdsections 5.3 and 9, and the C reference read viagit show origin/c-master:. Verified in a throwaway worktree atf602ecd; theshared clone was left on
main, clean.Blocking findings
B1.
make checkis red.make lintreports 1 issue; the PR claims 0.Deterministic across two runs,
golangci-lint 2.12.2. This is not alinter-version artifact: the base commit
4aa4bablints 0 issues with theidentical binary and identical
.golangci.yml. The literal"exit"occurs 5times (
main_test.go:48, 88, 110, 111, 112, 113, 154),"save"and"fini"similarly;
goconstis on because.golangci.ymlsetsdefault: allwith noexclusion presets.
Why it matters:
MEMORY.md:32-35is an iron rule — "the whole golangci-lint runis 0 issues, so keep it that way — decompose new hot spots rather than reaching
for a nolint." Issue #12 DoD 6 requires
make checkfully green. And the PRbody, the PR comment, and
TODO.mdall state "lint (0 issues)" and "make checkfully green"; that verification claim is false as submitted.Acceptable: hoist
save/fini/exitinto file-level constants and use themin the recorder and the expectation tables. Per
MEMORY.md, a//nolint:goconstis not the acceptable fix here.
B2. The tests are vacuous for the exact regression issue #12 exists to prevent.
All four tests iterate
for _, sig := range handledSignals()(
main_test.go:82, 116, 194). Nothing anywhere asserts whathandledSignals()actually contains. Mutation-proved:
cmd/rogue/main.go:122-126toreturn []os.Signal{syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM}— i.e. reinstate the pre-PR bug in full, SIGINT and SIGQUITonce again killing the process with the tty raw — and the suite is green:
ok git.eeqj.de/sneak/rgoue/cmd/rogue. Zero failures.TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSpliteven declares awantmap keyed on all four signals(
main_test.go:109-114) but drives the loop fromhandledSignals(), so theSIGINTandSIGQUITentries are never read. The suite is self-referential: ittests that the handler behaves consistently with whatever set it is given, not
that the set is right.
For contrast, the mutations that are caught: deleting
t.Fini()fromleaveOnSignal(main.go:198) fails all four tests; forcingsavesOnSignaltoreturn truefailsTestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplitoninterruptandquit. So the handler body is well covered — the signal set,which is the entire subject of the issue, is not.
Acceptable: assert the contents of
handledSignals()directly against anexplicit expected set, or drive the tests from the
wantmap keys and requireeach key to be present in
handledSignals().B3. Handlers are installed too late;
rogue -dis left completely unprotected, so DoD 1 is unmet on that path.cmd/rogue/main.go:42term.New()puts the tty in raw mode. Handlers are notinstalled until
cmd/rogue/main.go:72. Everything in between runs raw with nohandler at all:
main.go:56game.Restore(args[0], params)— file I/O.main.go:66-70g.DeathDemo(), which never returns. It reachesgame/rip.go:60-70death(), which callsg.score(...)and theng.waitFor('\n')— an indefinite block on the player pressing return,with the terminal raw and SIGINT/SIGQUIT/SIGHUP/SIGTERM all at their default
dispositions.
A
kill -INTduringrogue -dtherefore still leaves precisely the scrambled,echo-less terminal that issue #12 is about. DoD 1 ("SIGINT (and SIGQUIT) restore
the terminal before the process exits") is not satisfied on that path, and
ARCHITECTURE.mdsection 5.3's new sentence "Every path restores the terminalvia
Terminal.Finibefore exiting" is not true as written.Acceptable: install immediately after
term.New()/defer t.Fini()(
main.go:48), ahead of the restore and demo branches. The saver can be wired inlater or the handler given a nil-tolerant saver; the terminal restore is the part
that must be armed the instant the tty goes raw.
B4. The stated exposure analysis is wrong in the commit message, the PR body, and
TODO.md.All three assert the remaining exposure is "
kill -INT/kill -QUIT… plus thewindow before
term.New(), which this fix covers". Nothing is raw beforeterm.New(), so there is nothing there to restore and nothing to cover; theactual raw-mode window is after
term.New()and is exactly the one leftuncovered by B3. Since this text is landing in
TODO.mdand the commit messageas a durable record, it needs to be corrected, not just softened.
Highest-priority task: both disputed premises verified
Both of the implementer's corrections are CORRECT. I checked them against the
C sources and the Go/tcell code rather than taking either side on faith.
(a)
leave()is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play — CONFIRMEDmd_init()(mdport.c:133-137):#if defined(DUMP)→md_onsignal_default(),#else→md_onsignal_exit(). Shipped (non-DUMP) build takesmd_onsignal_exit().setup()(mach_dep.c:137, lines 143-147):#ifdef DUMP→md_onsignal_autosave(),#else→md_onsignal_default(). Shipped buildtakes
md_onsignal_default().md_onsignal_default()(mdport.c:141-176) sets HUP, QUIT, ILL, TRAP, IOT,EMT, FPE, BUS, SEGV, SYS, TERM to
SIG_DFLand never touches SIGINT.So during play in the shipped build SIGINT and SIGQUIT are both
SIG_DFL—no handler, no
endwin(), terminal not restored.md_onsignal_autosave()(mdport.c:217-255) is the only thing wiringHUP/TERM →
auto_save, QUIT →endit, INT →quit. Its only call sitein the tree is
mach_dep.c:144, inside#ifdef DUMP(
extern.h:193is the prototype;mdport.c:217the definition).signal(SIGINT, leave)appears exactly twice:main.c:305(insidequit(),after the player answers
y) andrip.c:237(insidedeath(), right aftersignal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN)atrip.c:235). Both endgame, both asecond-Ctrl-C escape while the scoreboard prints.
main.c:332is the definition ofleave(), not an installation of it.Issue #12's premise "C
main.c:332installsleave(int sig)… on SIGINT andSIGQUIT" is factually wrong. The PR's correction stands. Also verified the
code comment's supporting claim:
endit()(main.c:161-165) →fatal()(
main.c:172-179) →endwin()+my_exit(0), no save. Accurate.(b) Ctrl-C never generated SIGINT here — CONFIRMED, and issue #12's severity was overstated
devTty.Startcallsterm.MakeRaw(tty.fd)(
tty_unix.go:83; same atstdin_unix.go:83).golang.org/x/termv0.37.0term_unix.go:34:termios.Lflag &^= unix.ECHO | unix.ECHONL | unix.ICANON | unix.ISIG | unix.IEXTEN—ISIGis cleared.term/tcell.go:169(namedKey,reached from
translateKeyatterm/tcell.go:101) already returns'\x03'.setup()calls cursesraw()atmach_dep.c:154, which alsoclears
ISIG.Stated plainly, as requested: the user-facing severity claimed in issue #12 was
overstated. The headline reproducer — "pressing Ctrl-C kills the process with
tcell still holding the terminal in raw mode … needing a blind
reset" — doesnot fire, and the assertion that Ctrl-C is "the most reachable robustness gap in
the port" does not hold. The genuine residual exposure is
kill -INT/kill -QUITfrom another terminal; a SIGINT delivered to the foreground processgroup while the
!shell escape has the screen suspended(
term/tcell.goShellEscape, whereSuspend()has restored cooked mode);and the unarmed window of B3. The fix is still worth having — it is just
robustness hardening, not the top-severity player-facing bug the issue described.
Other verification results
Ordering / corruption window (item 1) — sound as claimed.
notifySignals(
main.go:175-183) creates one buffer-1 channel;installSignalHandlers(
main.go:168-170) starts exactly one goroutine;leaveOnSignal(
main.go:193-200) performs exactly one receive and never loops. A secondsignal arriving mid-
AutoSavesits unread. I could not construct aninterleaving where a second signal exits out from under the writer. The
residual window that remains is the main goroutine's own
myExit()(game/rip.go:17-20) callingos.Exit(0)while a HUP-triggeredAutoSaveis mid-encode — but that is byte-for-byte the pre-PR behavior, it isnot what the PR claims to have closed, and the claims as written are correctly
scoped to "a second signal". Net effect on this axis is an improvement: pre-PR,
a SIGINT during a HUP autosave killed the process outright at
SIG_DFL.SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave unchanged (item 2) — confirmed. The diff touches 4
files, none under
game/.savesOnSignalreturns true for exactly HUP and TERM,AutoSaveis invoked identically, and the save/restore suite passes.Decision documented in code (item 3) — satisfied.
cmd/rogue/main.go:128-159carries the full reasoning on
savesOnSignal, not only in the PR body. Contentchecked against C and accurate (one wording nit at M2 below).
Non-vacuity (item 4) — partly satisfied. Handler body well covered; signal
set not covered at all. See B2.
Convention deviation, missing
//nolint:testpackage(item 5) — the reasoningis CORRECT, not a defect. Reproduced: adding
//nolint:testpackage // white-box tests reach unexported stateabovepackage mainyieldsThe explanatory comment is present at
cmd/rogue/main_test.go:3-5. Accept as-is.tcell signal registration (item 6) — confirmed. tcell v2.13.10 calls
signal.Notify(tty.sig, syscall.SIGWINCH)attty_unix.go:108andstdin_unix.go:108, and registers nothing else. The old section 5.3 claim that"SIGTSTP/resume and resize are handled by tcell" was indeed false; the correction
is right.
Pre-existing AutoSave race (item 7) — correctly left alone. Not touched, not
made worse, not "fixed" as scope creep.
Minor findings (non-blocking, fix while reworking)
ARCHITECTURE.mdsection 9, SIGTSTP prose: "callingScreen.Suspend/Resumefrom the signal goroutine while the game goroutinemay be inside
RenderorPollEvent— a data race". This proves too much:the code shipped in this very PR calls
Screen.Finifrom the signal goroutinein exactly that situation (
cmd/rogue/main.go:198). In tcell both aremutex/
finiOnce-guarded (tscreen.go:369-376forFini,tscreen.go:1145-1152plusengage/disengageforSuspend/Resume), soneither is a Go data race. The real SIGTSTP objection is a logical
screen-state race, and the doc should say that instead.
cmd/rogue/main.go:139-141: "(md_onsignal_autosave, mdport.c,compiled only under DUMP)".
md_onsignal_autosave()is definedunconditionally at
mdport.c:216-255; only its call site(
mach_dep.c:143-147) is#ifdef DUMP. Substance correct, wording not.ARCHITECTURE.mdsection 5.3: "Every path restores the terminal viaTerminal.Finibefore exiting" — untrue on the-dpath; see B3.TestLeaveOnRealSignal(main_test.go:213-215) asserts onlystrings.HasSuffix(..., "fini,exit")plus exit code, so the end-to-end testnever checks the save/no-save split it is best placed to check. Covered
elsewhere, so not blocking, but the strongest test carries the weakest
assertion.
separately:
chooseSeed(cmd/rogue/main.go:204-210) silently ignores aset-but-unparseable
SEEDand falls back to time+pid. Set-but-unparseableconfig must fail loudly. Not introduced here; do not fix in this PR.
Standard gate
make checkgreen from a clean worktreelintfails, see B1make test(-timeout 30s -race -cover), 3 runs,GOFLAGS=-count=1-race.golangci.ymlsha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, not in diffscript/addedgame/testdata/goldens regenerated(closes #12)TODO.mdCompleted Steps entry added,Next Stepnot rotatedTODO.mdhunkt.Parallel()where applicablemain4aa4bab.gitea/or.github/); Gitea reports 0 statuses. Not aneeds-checkscaseVerdict
FAIL —
needs-rework. Four blocking items: B1 (lint red, contradicting anexplicit "0 issues" claim, against the
MEMORY.mdzero-issues rule and DoD 6),B2 (the test suite passes with SIGINT/SIGQUIT removed from
handledSignals()—the regression the issue exists to prevent is unguarded), B3 (
rogue -drunsraw with no handlers, so DoD 1 is unmet there), B4 (the exposure analysis
recorded in the commit message, PR body and
TODO.mdis wrong about whichwindow the fix covers). Plus M1-M4.
The core design is right and the two disputed premises are both correct — the
C-source and tcell/
x/termanalysis holds up under independent checking, andissue #12 was wrong on both counts, with its stated severity overstated.
savesOnSignalis well argued and properly documented in code. The rework isbounded: constants for the step strings, an assertion pinning
handledSignals(), moving the install to just afterterm.New(), and correctingthe three prose claims.
Manager notes (the review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: FAIL. Labeling
needs-rework.I independently re-measured B1 before accepting it, and it is real. On a
clean golangci-lint cache with no concurrent run,
origin/main(4aa4bab)lints 0 issues, and
origin/sig-leavelints exactly:So the PR's claim of "lint 0 issues / make check fully green" was false, and
MEMORY.md's zero-issues rule is violated. That is blocking on its own.But getting that measurement surfaced a real environment problem, and it
partly exculpates the implementer. My first three attempts to reproduce were
garbage:
make lintreported 399 issues (mnd: 285,nolintlint: 64, …) againstfile paths under
/tmp/rev23/— a worktree that no longer existed.golangci-lint was serving cached results for deleted directories.
Error: parallel golangci-lint is running.The cause: golangci-lint keeps one cache at
~/.cache/golangci-lint, andthere are ~18 concurrent repo-manager sessions on this host all invoking it
from throwaway worktrees under
/tmp. They share that cache and its lock.A run can therefore return another repo's stale findings, or refuse to run at
all. A green lint result from any agent on this host is not trustworthy
unless the cache was clean and no other run was in flight.
That is very likely how the implementer saw green while the reviewer saw red —
neither was lying. It does not excuse the outcome (the branch is red), but
it means "the author fabricated a green run" is the wrong conclusion.
Practical consequence for the rework: verify
make lintin a retry loopuntil you get a run that does not say
parallel golangci-lint is running, andtreat any result mentioning paths outside your own worktree as void and re-run.
This also sharpens #4. I argued there that an unpinned linter makes the gate
non-reproducible; the failure mode turns out to be worse than version drift —
the gate is not even reproducible against itself on one machine under
concurrency.
Two premises of issue #12 — both mine — are now CONFIRMED WRONG, verified
against the C sources rather than asserted:
leave()is not installed on SIGINT/SIGQUIT during play.md_initandsetuptake the#elsebranches tomd_onsignal_default(), which sets alist of signals to
SIG_DFLand never touches SIGINT.md_onsignal_autosave()has exactly one call site, inside#ifdef DUMP.signal(SIGINT, leave)appears twice in the whole tree, both in endgamepaths (
main.c:305inquit(),rip.c:237indeath()).main.c:332isthe definition of
leave(), not an installation.devTty.Startcallsterm.MakeRaw, which clearsISIG; Ctrl-C arrives as a key event andterm/tcell.go:169already returns'\x03'. C matches viaraw().So the severity I asserted in #12 was overstated — "the most reachable
robustness gap in the port" does not hold, and the stated reproducer does not
fire. The change is still worth landing, for
kill -INT/kill -QUIT, for aSIGINT delivered to the process group during the
!shell escape, and forB3's genuinely unarmed window. I have recorded the correction on #12.
B2 is the finding I would have missed and care most about. The tests
iterate
for _, sig := range handledSignals()without ever asserting whatthat set contains — so mutating it back to
{SIGHUP, SIGTERM}, reinstatingthe exact pre-PR bug, leaves the suite green. The control mutations failing
(removing
t.Fini(), flippingsavesOnSignal) is what makes thisconclusive: the handler body is covered, the signal set is not. A regression
test that cannot fail on the regression is the defect this gate exists to
catch.
B3 is a genuine functional gap, not a documentation nit. Raw mode is
raised at
main.go:42, handlers install at:72, andg.DeathDemo()sitsbetween them and never returns — so
rogue -druns with the tty raw and nohandler at all. DoD item 1 is unmet on that path. B4 falls out of it: the
uncovered window is after
term.New(), not before, so the commit message,PR body, and
TODO.mdall describe it backwards.M1-M4 to be fixed alongside. M5 (
chooseSeedsilently defaulting on anunparseable
SEED) is pre-existing and explicitly not in scope — flag itand I will file it separately rather than let this PR grow.
f602ecdbbftodfb34be1c4Rework of PR #23 against the review of
f602ecdHead is now
dfb34be, amended into the single commit and force-pushed tosig-leave. Every finding is addressed below; none is skipped and none isrebutted — the review was right on all eight points. Design and the
save/no-save split are unchanged, as instructed.
B1 — lint-red (
goconston the repeated step strings). FIXED.cmd/rogue/main_test.gonow defines the step names once:and uses them in
signalRecorder.AutoSave/Fini/exitand in everyexpectation. No
//nolintanywhere, perMEMORY.md's zero-issues rule.Reworking also surfaced a second real issue that the previous run had not shown
me —
funcorder: unexported method "set" ... should be placed after the exported method "AutoSave"on the new type — which is fixed by orderingAutoSavebefore
set. Final state is 0 issues.On why the earlier "0 issues" claim was wrong: I accept the finding without
qualification — the branch was red. I have adopted the manager's mitigation:
every
make lintandmake checkwas run in a retry loop and the result onlyaccepted when it (a) did not report
parallel golangci-lint is runningand (b)mentioned no file path outside this worktree. The first attempt in this session
did hit the lock, which is exactly the failure mode described.
make checkwasaccepted green twice under that guard, on the final tree.
Also observed and not acted on, since
.golangci.ymlmust stay byte-identical:golangci-lint 2.12.2 emits
The linter 'gomodguard' is deprecated (since v2.12.0) ... Replaced by gomodguard_v2. Flagging it as a tracked action item for thecanonical shared config rather than touching the file here.
B2 — vacuous tests. FIXED, with a mutation proof.
New
TestHandledSignalsSetpins the membership ofhandledSignals()to exactly{SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT}, in both directions (nothing missing, nothing
extra, same length). This is the assertion the file was missing: every other
test iterates that set, so nothing else in the file can fail on the regression.
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplitis now driven by the expectation table(
for sig, want := range wantSteps()) instead of byhandledSignals(), so theSIGINT and SIGQUIT entries are genuinely read, and each key is additionally
asserted to be present in
handledSignals()— the test fails twice over if asignal is dropped.
TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExistsis new and covers the B3 mechanism.Mutation proof, run as instructed. With
cmd/rogue/main.gotemporarilyreverted to
return []os.Signal{syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM}— the exactpre-PR bug —
make testnow FAILS:The mutation was reverted immediately afterwards; the pushed tree has the full
four-signal set, and the control tests (
...RestoresTerminalBeforeExit,...IgnoresLaterSignals,...RealSignal) still pass under the mutation, whichis what shows the new failures are the set assertion doing its job rather than
collateral.
B3 — handlers installed too late;
rogue -dunprotected. FIXED.Confirmed the mechanism before changing anything:
g.DeathDemo()reachesdeath()(game/rip.go), which callsg.score(...)and then blocksindefinitely in
g.waitFor('\n')beforeg.myExit(). With the install atmain.go:72that whole wait ran with the tty raw and every signal atSIG_DFL.installSignalHandlersis now called immediately afterterm.New()anddefer t.Fini(), before the restore branch and before the demo branch. Sincethere is no game yet at that point, the signature changed from
installSignalHandlers(g saver, t finisher)toinstallSignalHandlers(t finisher) *pendingSaver,and the game is handed over afterwards:
pendingSaverholds the game behind a mutex (setruns on the maingoroutine,
AutoSaveon the signal goroutine — it is guarded for the racedetector, not decoration).
AutoSaveis a no-op while the game is nil, so a signal in the unarmedwindow restores the terminal and exits with nothing to save. Restoring the
terminal is the part that must be armed the instant the tty goes raw, and it
needs no game.
pending.set(g)is called exactly where the old install was, i.e. on the playpath only.
Verification that SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave is not broken by the reordering:
the play path still reaches
pending.set(g)beforeg.Run(), so a HUP or TERMduring play delegates to the real
RogueGame.AutoSaveexactly as before; thegamepackage is untouched by this PR and its save/restore suite is green. Thenew
TestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExistsasserts both halves of thehandoff:
fini,exitwith no save beforeset, and a delegated save after it.One deliberate consequence, commented at the call site: the
-ddemo is leftwithout a saver. It now restores the terminal on all four signals (which is the
DoD item that was unmet), but a throwaway demo game must not overwrite the
player's save file — and it never did before, since no handler existed there at
all.
B4 — the exposure analysis was backwards. FIXED in all three places.
Correct statement, now used verbatim in the commit message, the PR body and
TODO.md: nothing is raw beforeterm.New(), so there was never anything tocover there; the uncovered window was after it, and is what B3 closes. All
three now also name the other two residual exposures (
kill -INT/kill -QUITfrom another terminal, and a SIGINT to the process group while the
!shellescape has the screen suspended). The
TODO.mdCompleted Steps entry is keptand corrected rather than rewritten, and
Next Stepis still not rotated.M1 — "a data race" in ARCHITECTURE.md section 9. FIXED.
Reworded. The section now says explicitly that it is not a data race —
tcell guards
Suspend/ResumeandFinialike with the screen mutex, which isalso why the
Finithis PR calls from the signal goroutine is safe — and thatthe real objection is a logical race over screen state: the game goroutine
can redraw into a screen the handler has just suspended, or resume under a
half-finished frame. Your point that the old wording proved too much against
this PR's own code is correct.
M2 —
md_onsignal_autosave"compiled only under DUMP". FIXED.The
savesOnSignalcomment now reads "defined unconditionally, but with itsonly call site, mach_dep.c setup, inside
#ifdef DUMP". The PR body carries thesame correction.
M3 — "Every path restores the terminal" untrue on
-d. FIXED, and it is now true.B3 makes the claim hold, so section 5.3 keeps it and now says why it holds:
the handlers are installed immediately after
term.New()and before the gameexists, and both the restore path and
-d's non-returningDeathDemo()sitinside that window. The sentence is no longer an unsupported assertion.
M4 —
TestLeaveOnRealSignalasserted only a suffix. FIXED.It now asserts the exact step sequence for each signal against the shared
wantSteps()table, so the end-to-end test checks the save/no-save split too —save,fini,exitfor HUP/TERM,fini,exitfor INT/QUIT — rather than just"ends with fini,exit". The
stringsimport is gone with it.M5 — out of scope, flagged not fixed.
chooseSeed(cmd/rogue/main.go) still silently falls back to time+pid whenSEEDis set but unparseable. Pre-existing, untouched here, and left for aseparate issue as directed. Likewise the pre-existing SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave
data race (#24) is not touched, and the save/no-save semantics are unchanged.
Verification on the final tree
make lint, uncontended, no foreign pathsmake check(fmt-check+lint+test), under the retry guardmake test(-timeout 30s -race -cover).golangci.ymlsha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, not in diffgame/testdata/goldenscmd/rogue/main.go,cmd/rogue/main_test.go,ARCHITECTURE.md,TODO.md(closes #12), single amended commitmake fmton touched markdownprettier --checkcleanWork was done in a throwaway worktree; the shared clone was left on
main,clean, and
c-master/modern-roguewere only ever read viagit show.Review of PR #23 (head
dfb34be) — VERDICT: PASS /merge-readyFresh independent review. I did not author, rework, or previously review this
change, and I re-verified every earlier finding from scratch rather than
accepting the rework report. Checked against issue #12 and all three of its
comments (the two comments are authoritative over the body),
TODO.md,MEMORY.md,README.md,ARCHITECTURE.md§5.3 and §9, and the C referenceread only via
git show origin/c-master:. Verified in a throwaway worktree atdfb34be, since removed; the shared clone was left onmain, clean.1. The new concurrency code —
pendingSaverThis is where I looked hardest, since it is the part the previous review never
saw. It is correct.
Race-freedom.
cmd/rogue/main.go:136-161.pendingSaverhas exactly onemutable field,
game saver, and exactly two accessors.AutoSave(
main.go:144-153) takesp.mu,defers the unlock, nil-checks and delegates.set(main.go:156-161) takesp.mu,defers the unlock, assigns. Every readand every write of
p.gameis inside the lock; nothing escapes it — no pointerto the field is handed out, and
AutoSavedoes not release the lock beforedelegating. The
*pendingSaveritself is allocated ininstallSignalHandlers(
main.go:219) before thegostatement atmain.go:221, so the goroutine'sview of it is established by the happens-before edge of the
gostatement, andthe value returned to
runis the same pointer.Interleavings. The only concurrent pair is
seton the main goroutineagainst
AutoSaveon the signal goroutine, and there are only two orders:AutoSaveacquires first:p.gameis nil, nothing is written, and thehandler proceeds to
Finithenexit(0). The signal landed at a moment whenthe game had existed for a handful of instructions and had never run a turn,
so there is nothing to rescue. Correct.
setacquires first: the handler delegates to the realgame.RogueGame.AutoSave. Correct.There is no third state and no torn read, because the field is a single word
written under the lock. I could not construct a bad interleaving.
Empirically. I built a throwaway copy of the head tree and added a probe
test that runs 500 iterations of
leaveOnSignalagainst a concurrentpending.set, both goroutines racing for the samependingSaver, and ran itthrough
make test(-timeout 30s -race -cover). Clean, no race reports. Theprobe was discarded; nothing was committed.
Deadlock.
AutoSaveholdsp.muacross the delegated call. That is safehere because
setis called exactly once, frommain.go:83, and the realAutoSavenever re-enterspendingSaver. See N3 below for the only caveat.2.
-drestores the tty without touching the save file — CONFIRMEDrun()(cmd/rogue/main.go:29-88) reachespending.set(g)only atmain.go:83. The-dbranch atmain.go:74-81callsg.DeathDemo()andreturns ahead of it, sosetis provably not reached on the demo path — thedemo game never becomes the handler's saver. A signal during
rogue -dtherefore runs
savesOnSignal(main.go:205-207), and for SIGHUP/SIGTERM callspendingSaver.AutoSave, which findsp.game == niland returns withouttouching the filesystem, then
t.Fini()thenexit(0). Terminal restored, savefile untouched. This is the DoD 1 gap the previous review raised as B3, and it
is closed:
g.DeathDemo()(game/rip.go:268-277) reachesdeath(), whichblocks indefinitely in
waitFor('\n'), and that whole stretch is now inside thearmed window.
3. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on the play path — UNCHANGED
Compared against
4aa4bab:cmd/rogue/main.go. The oldinstallAutosave(g, t)was invoked at exactly the point
pending.set(g)now is: after the restore /new-game branch, after the
-dearly return, immediately beforeg.Run(). Thehandler body performs the same three steps in the same order —
g.AutoSave(),t.Fini(),os.Exit(0). The restore path still reachesset(g)(the-dguard atmain.go:62is false there), so a restored gamestill autosaves on HUP/TERM. No file under
game/is in the diff, and thesave/restore suite passes. No regression.
4. Single-signal-read ordering — SURVIVED THE REFACTOR
notifySignals(main.go:229-237) creates one channel of capacity 1 andregisters it.
installSignalHandlers(main.go:218-224) starts exactly onegoroutine.
leaveOnSignal(main.go:247-254) performs exactly one channelreceive, at
main.go:248, and does not loop. A second signal arriving mid-AutoSavetherefore sits in the buffer (or is dropped byos/signal) and cannever reach
exit.Worth noting explicitly because it is easy to get wrong:
notifySignals()atmain.go:221is an argument to thegostatement, so per the Go spec it isevaluated on the calling goroutine before the new goroutine starts.
signal.Notifyis therefore in force by the timeinstallSignalHandlersreturns, not at some later scheduling point. The arming is synchronous, which is
the whole premise of moving the call to
main.go:56.TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals(main_test.go:204-224) reproduces theinterleaving with a saver that queues a second signal from inside the save, and
asserts
len(ch) == 1afterwards.5. B2 non-vacuity — REPRODUCED MYSELF, and the failures are for the right reason
I did not take the rework's word for this. I copied the head tree, reduced
handledSignals()(cmd/rogue/main.go:166-170) to{syscall.SIGHUP, syscall.SIGTERM}— the exact pre-PR bug — and ranGOFLAGS=-count=1 make test:Both failures are the set assertion doing its job, not collateral: the messages
come from
main_test.go:113/118(the membership check) andmain_test.go:175(the
slices.Contains(handledSignals(), sig)guard), and the verbose rerunshows
TestLeaveOnSignalRestoresTerminalBeforeExit,TestLeaveOnSignalIgnoresLaterSignals,TestLeaveOnRealSignalandTestPendingSaverArmsBeforeTheGameExistsall still PASS under the mutation.That contrast is exactly what proves the new assertions are load-bearing. The
mutated copy was deleted; the pushed tree is unmodified.
The structural fix is right too:
TestLeaveOnSignalSaveSplit(
main_test.go:170-197) is now driven byfor sig, want := range wantSteps(),so the SIGINT and SIGQUIT rows of the expectation table are genuinely read
rather than being dead data keyed off a set that no longer contains them.
6. B1 — lint is clean
Measured under the retry protocol. Four accepted
make checkruns atdfb34be, none of which reportedparallel golangci-lint is runningand noneof which named a path outside my own worktree:
goconstis gone: the step strings are hoisted tostepSave/stepFini/stepExitatcmd/rogue/main_test.go:18-22and used everywhere, with no//nolintadded anywhere in the diff.funcorderis satisfied by placingAutoSave(main.go:144) ahead ofset(main.go:156).The only linter output is the pre-existing, config-level
The linter 'gomodguard' is deprecated (since v2.12.0)warning. It is not anissue, it is present on
maintoo, and fixing it would require editing.golangci.yml, whichMEMORY.md:25-27forbids. Correctly flagged and notacted on.
7. B3/B4 — every path, and the direction of the window
Every path. I enumerated them rather than checking only the two that were
fixed:
-sscoreboard (main.go:37-41)term.New()term.New()error (main.go:43-48)s.Fini()itself insideterm/tcell.gobefore returning the errormain.go:64-69)defer t.Fini()atmain.go:49-ddeath demo (main.go:74-81)main.go:56; normal end viamyExit→scr.Fini()(game/rip.go:17-20)main.go:85)myExitrun()defer t.Fini()runs during unwindingflag.Parse()usage errorterm.New()So §5.3's claim holds for every path that ever puts the tty in raw mode. See N1
for the one instruction-scale caveat, which I am not treating as blocking.
Direction of the window. All three records now state it correctly and
consistently:
before term.New(), so there was never anything to cover there."
term.New()… Nothing is raw beforeterm.New(), so there was never anything to cover there — the earlierrevision of this description had that backwards."
TODO.md: "the window afterterm.New(): nothing is raw before it".B4 is fixed in all three places.
8. M1 and M2 — verified against the sources, not against the report
M1.
ARCHITECTURE.md:1750-1753now reads "That is not a data race — tcellguards
Suspend/ResumeandFinialike with the screen mutex, which is alsowhy the
Finithis port does call from the signal goroutine is safe — it is alogical race over the screen state". That is the correct characterisation and
it no longer proves too much against this PR's own
t.Fini()from the signalgoroutine. Fixed.
M2.
cmd/rogue/main.go:184-186now reads "(md_onsignal_autosave, mdport.c —defined unconditionally, but with its only call site, mach_dep.c setup, inside
#ifdef DUMP)". Checked against the C source directly:
mdport.c:216-254definesmd_onsignal_autosave()with no enclosing#ifdef DUMP— the only conditionals inside it are the per-signal#ifdef SIGxxxguards. Definition is unconditional. Confirmed.mach_dep.c setup()is the sole call site, and it is inside#ifdef DUMP / md_onsignal_autosave(); / #else / md_onsignal_default(); / #endif. Confirmed.Fixed, and now accurate.
Independent re-verification of the two disputed premises
I re-checked both from the C sources and the module cache rather than inheriting
the earlier conclusions. Both hold.
md_onsignal_default()(mdport.c:141-176) sets SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGILL,SIGTRAP, SIGIOT, SIGEMT, SIGFPE, SIGBUS, SIGSEGV, SIGSYS and SIGTERM to
SIG_DFLand never mentions SIGINT.md_init(mdport.c:133-137) andsetup(mach_dep.c) both take the non-DUMP branch in the shipped build. Soduring play, INT and QUIT are
SIG_DFL: no handler, noendwin().signal(SIGINT, leave)appears exactly twice in the tree:main.c:305(inquit()after the player confirms) andrip.c:237(indeath(), right aftersignal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN)atrip.c:235). Both endgame.main.c:332is thedefinition of
leave(), not an installation.md_onsignal_autosave()wires HUP→auto_save, QUIT→endit, INT→quit, andthe fault signals to
auto_save— matching the §9 rows exactly.signal.Notify(tty.sig, syscall.SIGWINCH)attty_unix.go:108andstdin_unix.go:108, and nothingelse anywhere in the module. The old §5.3 claim that tcell handled SIGTSTP was
false; the correction at
ARCHITECTURE.md:1516-1517is right.Issue #12's body is wrong on both counts and its stated severity was overstated,
as the issue's own later comments now record. The PR's handling — recording the
corrections in
ARCHITECTURE.md, the commit message andTODO.mdrather thanquietly working around them — is the right call.
Standard gate
make checkgreen under the retry protocol0 issues, no lock collision, no foreign pathsmake test(-timeout 30s -race -cover),GOFLAGS=-count=1, repeatedsetvsleaveOnSignalunder-race)make fmtcleangofmt -lempty,prettier --checkclean.golangci.ymlsha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb, not in diffscript/touchedgame/testdata/goldens regeneratedARCHITECTURE.md,TODO.md,cmd/rogue/main.go,cmd/rogue/main_test.gosneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>) all clean(closes #12)TODO.mdCompleted Steps entry added,Next Stepnot rotatedTODO.mdhunk is 53 insertions, 0 deletionsmaindfb34beis a fast-forward descendant of4aa4bab; Gitea reportsmergeable: true.gitea/or.github/workflows and Gitea reports 0 statuses. Not aneeds-checkscaseAutoSavebegins atpending.set(g)(main.go:83), the exact pointinstallAutosaveused to be calledchooseSeedsilent default on unparseableSEED)main.go:258-271is byte-identical to4aa4baband absent from the diffsaver,finisher,pendingSaver,handledSignals,savesOnSignal,installSignalHandlers,notifySignals,leaveOnSignalall read cleanly and match the file's existing stylet.Parallel()in all tests//nolint:testpackageonmain_test.gotestpackageexemptspackage main, sonolintlintwould reject the directive as unused; explained atmain_test.go:3-5Non-blocking observations
None of these block the merge. Recording them for accuracy.
cmd/rogue/main.go:43-56— a residual unarmed window remains, roughlya microsecond wide.
term.New()raises raw mode insides.Init(), andsignal.Notifydoes not take effect untilinstallSignalHandlersatmain.go:56. Between them lie the error check and thedefer. This isinstruction-scale rather than the indefinite
waitForwindow B3 closed, andclosing it entirely would mean registering the channel before
term.New()andhanding the finisher over the way the saver is handed over now. §5.3's
"every path restores the terminal … before exiting" is absolute phrasing that
overstates by this much. Not worth a rework; worth knowing.
ARCHITECTURE.md:1529-1531quotes a sentence that does not exist. Thetext reads: That ordering is what makes "every path restores the terminal via
Terminal.Finibefore exiting" actually true. That exact phrase occursnowhere else in
ARCHITECTURE.md, and did not occur at4aa4babeither, sothe quotation marks have no antecedent and read oddly. Asserting it directly
would be clearer.
cmd/rogue/main.go:144-153holdsp.muacross the delegatedAutoSave. Harmless today:setis called once, early, and the realAutoSavenever re-enterspendingSaver. It would become amain-goroutine stall if
setever became repeatable (e.g. re-armed after arestore-in-place). A one-line note would future-proof it.
cmd/rogue/main.go:148nil-checks the interface, not the pointer. Atyped-nil
(*game.RogueGame)(nil)passed tosetwould makep.game == nilfalse and panic on delegation. Not reachable from
run(), wheresetis onlyever handed a non-nil
g. Noted for completeness.-dcomment atcmd/rogue/main.go:75-77is more defensive thanload-bearing. A demo game from
game.Newhas an emptyFileName, andgame.RogueGame.AutoSave(game/save.go:673-678) is already a no-op in thatcase, so the demo could not have overwritten a save file even with a saver
wired in. The split is still the right design — it does not depend on that
invariant holding — but the comment implies a sharper hazard than exists.
Verdict
PASS —
merge-ready. All four blocking findings from the review off602ecdare genuinely fixed, verified independently rather than accepted fromthe rework report: lint is
0 issuesacross four accepted runs, the mutationthat reinstates the pre-PR signal set now fails two tests for the correct
reason while the four control tests still pass,
rogue -dis inside the armedwindow and provably never becomes the handler's saver, and the exposure window
is described as being after
term.New()in all three records. M1 and M2 arefixed and check out against the C source. The new
pendingSaveris genuinelyrace-free — every access under the mutex, no escape, no bad interleaving
constructible, and race-clean under a 500-iteration concurrent probe. The
single-signal-read guarantee survives the restructure, and
signal.Notifyisestablished synchronously because
notifySignals()is evaluated on the callinggoroutine at the
gostatement. SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave on the play path isbyte-for-byte the previous behavior. #24 and M5 were both correctly left alone.
Manager notes (the fresh review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: PASS. Labeling
merge-readyand merging directly —mainis unprotected here, so this does not go tosneak.Four distinct agents touched this PR: implementer, first reviewer (FAIL),
reworker, and a fresh second reviewer. No agent reviewed its own work.
The concurrency verification is what earns the merge. The rework
introduced a new mutable object shared between the signal goroutine and the
main goroutine, which is exactly the kind of change that passes review on
plausible reasoning and fails in production. It was not taken on reasoning:
p.gamewas checked to be insidep.mu.*pendingSaverisallocated before the
gostatement, so the goroutine's view isestablished by that.
set-vs-leaveOnSignalprobe under-racewas run and came back clean.
The sharpest observation is one I would have missed:
notifySignals()is ago-statement argument, so it evaluates on the calling goroutine. Thearming is therefore synchronous, which is precisely what makes moving the
install up to
main.go:56sound rather than merely earlier. That is the load-bearing detail behind the B3 fix.
B2 was reproduced first-hand, not accepted from the rework's report:
mutating
handledSignals()back to{SIGHUP, SIGTERM}fails the two setassertions while the four control tests still pass — failing for the right
reason, not collateral damage. The whole point of B2 was that a regression
test which cannot fail on the regression is worthless, so verifying the fix
by report alone would have repeated the original error.
B3 was checked exhaustively rather than spot-checked — all seven exit
paths enumerated, every path that raises raw mode restores it. That is the
right standard for a claim as absolute as "every path restores the terminal",
which §5.3 now makes.
Both disputed premises from issue #12 were re-verified by this reviewer
independently and both hold. Three agents have now confirmed them against
the C sources. The correction stands: my original severity claim was wrong,
and the record on #12 says so.
Lint was measured under the contention protocol — four accepted
make checkruns, no lock collision, no foreign paths. Given that the previousround produced a false green from a poisoned shared cache, that discipline is
now the standard for this repo.
N1-N5 are non-blocking and deliberately not folded in. N1 (a
microsecond-wide unarmed window between
term.New()and the install) and N3(
p.muheld across the delegatedAutoSave) are the only two with any teeth,and neither is reachable in a way that matters today. N5 is a nice catch —
the
-dcomment overstates the hazard, since a freshgame.Newhas an emptyFileNameandAutoSaveis already a no-op there — but it is a commentoverstating safety, not code being unsafe.
Next: dispatching #24, the pre-existing SIGHUP/SIGTERM autosave data race.
This PR put the signal path under test, which is what makes #24 tractable.