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Cleanup: remove LocalScriptService timing-race workarounds (PR #275 fixed at root)

Placeholder ppxd requested to merge cleanup/remove-localscriptservice-race-workarounds into main

Summary

  • Removes 9 Start-Sleep N / sleep N timing-workaround prefixes that PRs #267, #273, and several first-runners added to chase the LocalScriptService race
  • PR #275 fixed the race at the root (CompleteScript now drains async stream readers via WaitForExit() before reading logs). The workarounds are now redundant
  • This cleanup IS the validation of #275's fix — if any test flakes post-cleanup, the root-cause fix isn't sufficient and we have a clean diagnostic

What's removed

Linux deploy E2E (TentacleLinuxDeployE2ETests)

Test Before After
LD7h Output variable sleep 1; echo "##squid..." echo "##squid..."
LD8h Polling EchoScript sleep 1; echo echo
LD11h File transfer sleep 1; cat '<file>' cat '<file>'
LD12h Sensitive variable sleep 1; echo "##squid... sensitive='True'" echo "##squid..."
LD13h Multi-file transfer sleep 1; cat ... cat ... cat cat ... cat ... cat

Windows deploy E2E (TentacleDeployE2ETests)

Test Before After
D1.h Listening EchoScript SleepThenEcho(2, ...) Echo(...)
D2.h Polling EchoScript SleepThenEcho(1, ...) Echo(...)
D13.h Unicode SleepThenEcho(2, ...) Echo(...)
EmitServiceMessage helper Start-Sleep -Seconds 2\n... / sleep 2\n... (no prefix) — affects D7h plain + sensitive output variables and D7.u1 base64 variant

What's preserved (intentional, NOT race workarounds)

  • LD5h sleep 3 and Windows D9.h SleepThenEcho(3) — testing long-running script behaviour, not a workaround
  • LD10h sleep 2 per-ticket — concurrent overlap timing for isolation test (3 tickets running concurrently for ~2s window)
  • Windows D10h staggered SleepThenEcho(2/4/6) — staggered emit ordering for concurrent multiplex isolation. Different concern from PR #275's race — the latter is per-ticket async-reader drain; the former is cross-ticket emit ordering at the agent's pipeline. Keeping conservative — can revisit once we have data on whether #275's fix subsumes this case too

Why now

Prior to PR #275, every short-lived dispatch test had a sleep prefix like sleep 1 or Start-Sleep 2 to give pwsh.exe / bash spawn time before the marker emit. These were painful to maintain (round 1 → round 9 of escalation across multiple PRs), CI-time-expensive (~25-30s per Linux runner, ~30-40s per Windows runner), and obscured the underlying production bug.

PR #275's fix in LocalScriptService.CompleteScript:

if (!running.Process.HasExited)
    running.Process.WaitForExit(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));

// ALWAYS drain async stream readers
running.Process.WaitForExit();   // ← no-arg flush

var logs = ReadLogs(running, ...);

Per .NET docs: WaitForExit() (no-arg) flushes async event handlers before returning. With this on every CompleteScript path, async readers always drain BEFORE log file reads — regardless of how fast the script exited.

Validation strategy

This cleanup PR is itself the validation. Three possible CI outcomes:

  1. All green → PR #275's fix subsumes the timing race; the workarounds were correctly redundant. ✅
  2. A specific test flakes → PR #275's fix is insufficient for some specific path; revert that specific sleep, and add a comment explaining why
  3. Many tests flake → PR #275's fix has a subtle bug; revert the entire cleanup and dig deeper

Test plan

  • dotnet build both projects — 0 errors
  • CI on ubuntu-latest (Tentacle Linux E2E) — all 70+ tests still green
  • CI on windows-latest (Tentacle Windows E2E) — all 90+ tests still green
  • Re-run both workflows 2-3 times (manual workflow_dispatch) to confirm no flakes — important because the prior workarounds were specifically chasing intermittent failures

CI time savings (after merge)

  • Linux runner: ~25-30s saved per run (5 tests × ~5s sleep average)
  • Windows runner: ~30-40s saved per run (4 tests × ~7s sleep average + EmitServiceMessage's 2s × 3 tests)

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