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sneak 6f1b3f9fb7 Stop the terminal tests reading a pty nobody opened (closes #126)
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On Linux, pty.Open of github.com/creack/pty v1.1.24 passes the address
of a local variable to ioctl as a plain number, through a function
call. When Go moved the goroutine's stack in between, the kernel wrote
the pty's number to the old place, and pty.Open opened /dev/pts/0,
another terminal. secret rm wrote there, and the test read a terminal
no program had open, which never ends. Require the commit on the
library's main branch that passes a pointer; no release has it yet.

Both terminal tests now stop reading when their one-minute context
ends, and fail saying what was still waiting.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-10-06 19:42:36 +00:00
4 changed files with 34 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/milestone/12
# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-06: `TestRemoveIgnoresTerminalOnStdout` and
`TestRemoveAsksAtTerminalOnStdin` no longer wait until Go's test timeout
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/126). On Linux, `pty.Open` of
`github.com/creack/pty` v1.1.24 passed the address of a local variable to the
`ioctl` system call as a plain number, through a function call; when Go moved
the goroutine's stack in between, the kernel wrote the terminal's number to
the old place, and `pty.Open` opened `/dev/pts/0` instead of the terminal it
had created. `secret rm` then wrote to that other terminal, and the test read
a terminal no program had open, which never ends. `go.mod` now requires the
commit on that library's main branch that passes a pointer instead; no release
has it yet. Both tests stop reading the terminal when their one-minute context
ends and fail saying so.
- 2026-10-06: The tests run quickly with the race detector on
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/120). Most of their time went to
deriving keys from passphrases with scrypt, which is slow on purpose. The new
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ require (
github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.1.3
github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcutil v1.1.6
github.com/btcsuite/btcutil v0.0.0-20190425235716-9e5f4b9a998d
github.com/creack/pty v1.1.24
github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8 // v1.1.24's Open can return another pty's terminal
github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1
github.com/fatih/color v1.18.0
github.com/keybase/go-keychain v0.0.0-20230307172405-3e4884637dd1
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@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ github.com/btcsuite/snappy-go v1.0.0/go.mod h1:8woku9dyThutzjeg+3xrA5iCpBRH8XEEg
github.com/btcsuite/websocket v0.0.0-20150119174127-31079b680792/go.mod h1:ghJtEyQwv5/p4Mg4C0fgbePVuGr935/5ddU9Z3TmDRY=
github.com/btcsuite/winsvc v1.0.0/go.mod h1:jsenWakMcC0zFBFurPLEAyrnc/teJEM1O46fmI40EZs=
github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.6/go.mod h1:oOW0eioCTA6cOiMLiUPZOpcVxMig6NIQQ7OS05n1F4g=
github.com/creack/pty v1.1.24 h1:bJrF4RRfyJnbTJqzRLHzcGaZK1NeM5kTC9jGgovnR1s=
github.com/creack/pty v1.1.24/go.mod h1:08sCNb52WyoAwi2QDyzUCTgcvVFhUzewun7wtTfvcwE=
github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8 h1:CY3gjC7naqYGLMiywvj3suPfa1i0p/QEr7o8ujxL/2M=
github.com/creack/pty v1.1.25-0.20260601142114-9246436fffe8/go.mod h1:08sCNb52WyoAwi2QDyzUCTgcvVFhUzewun7wtTfvcwE=
github.com/davecgh/go-spew v0.0.0-20171005155431-ecdeabc65495/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
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@@ -2601,7 +2601,9 @@ func TestRemoveWithoutTerminalFailsAtOnce(t *testing.T) {
// and stderr, not both: whether it asks must depend on stdin alone, where
// the answer is read from. pty.Open returns the two ends of a new terminal:
// tty is the end a program uses as its terminal, and ptmx the end the test
// reads what the terminal shows from and types into.
// reads what the terminal shows from and types into. Reading ptmx stops at
// the context's deadline, when secret rm is killed too, so a terminal that
// stays open fails the test then instead of hanging it.
// TestRemoveIgnoresTerminalOnStdout runs `echo y | secret rm x` at a
// terminal. stdin is a pipe, so nobody can answer there, and the command
@@ -2619,6 +2621,9 @@ func TestRemoveIgnoresTerminalOnStdout(t *testing.T) {
defer func() { _ = ptmx.Close() }()
deadline, _ := ctx.Deadline()
require.NoError(t, ptmx.SetReadDeadline(deadline))
cmd.Stdin = strings.NewReader("y\n")
cmd.Stdout = tty
cmd.Stderr = tty
@@ -2628,9 +2633,15 @@ func TestRemoveIgnoresTerminalOnStdout(t *testing.T) {
_ = tty.Close()
// The read ends once secret rm has exited and so closed the terminal.
shown, _ := io.ReadAll(ptmx)
shown, err := io.ReadAll(ptmx)
require.NotErrorIs(t, err, os.ErrDeadlineExceeded,
"the terminal was still open a minute after secret rm started: %s",
shown)
require.Error(t, cmd.Wait())
err = cmd.Wait()
require.NoError(t, ctx.Err(), "secret rm did not exit within a minute")
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, string(shown), "pass --force")
assert.DirExists(t, secretDir)
}
@@ -2650,6 +2661,9 @@ func TestRemoveAsksAtTerminalOnStdin(t *testing.T) {
defer func() { _ = ptmx.Close() }()
deadline, _ := ctx.Deadline()
require.NoError(t, ptmx.SetReadDeadline(deadline))
cmd.Stdin = tty
// Not a file, so exec.Cmd connects stdout through a pipe.
cmd.Stdout = io.Discard
@@ -2667,7 +2681,8 @@ func TestRemoveAsksAtTerminalOnStdin(t *testing.T) {
terminal := bufio.NewReader(ptmx)
for !bytes.HasSuffix(shown, []byte("[y/N] ")) {
char, err = terminal.ReadByte()
require.NoError(t, err, "secret rm ended without asking: %s", shown)
require.NoError(t, err, "secret rm did not ask on the terminal: %s",
shown)
shown = append(shown, char)
}