[zibi-pplx]

Summary

The Shell tests job now runs its 44 regression tests four at a time, one per CPU, instead of one after another. It was one of the jobs, each taking 4-5 min, that a pull request without Kind smoke waits on.

	One at a time	With this PR (CI run)
Shell tests job	4.2 min	1m48s
Its test step	207 s	70 s
Slowest test (ci/scripts/test-guest-kernel-ci.sh)	67 s	69 s

The step now takes about as long as its slowest test. The next slowest are test-kind-stale-tilt-recovery.sh (33 s) and test-setup-nextest-postgres.sh (30 s).

How. ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh keeps a pool of SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS tests, one per CPU by default.

• Each test already works in a temporary directory of its own; none writes into the repository or a fixed /tmp path.
• Each test's output goes to its own log, printed whole when the test ends, with its duration, so no two tests' output interleaves.
• Every test runs even after one fails; the run then names the failures and exits 1. It used to stop at the first failure.
• Each test's name is printed when it starts, so a test that hangs is named. Interrupted (SIGINT, or SIGTERM from the job's timeout), the run sends the tests still running SIGTERM, then SIGKILL to any still running 5 s later, and prints each one's output so far before it exits. Where setsid exists, each test runs in a session of its own, so that stopping it also stops what it started.
• Tests are collected with jobs -rp and wait PID rather than wait -n, which behaves differently across Bash 5 releases.

Stack

1. #1503: unblock the dependency checks; keep GitHub outages from failing PRs.
2. This PR: run the shell regression tests in parallel.
3. #1475: run the Python tests in parallel.
4. #1476: lint alone only the crates a change can affect.

Validation

• This PR's CI ran all 44 tests, four at a time, and they passed.

• ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh (new) runs a copy of the runner on pass, fail, hang and SIGTERM-ignoring stubs. It checks:

  • every output is printed, and a failure is named and exits 1;
  • passing tests exit 0;
  • a SIGTERM during a hang names the hung test, prints its partial output, stops it and exits 143;
  • a test that ignores SIGTERM is killed within the 5 s grace, and the run still prints its output and exits;
  • SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS=0 is refused.

  Removing the signal traps fails it.

• shellcheck is clean.

Severity and risk

Severity: does not apply; this is a CI speedup.

Risk:

• A test that depends on running alone. Such a test, using a fixed port or path or a timing that a busy machine breaks, fails only when run beside others. Setting SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS=1 runs one at a time again.
• To roll back, revert this PR.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the change and this description.

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Walkthrough

The script runs discovered shell tests concurrently. It uses SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS when set, or the online CPU count with a fallback of 4. It rejects invalid job limits, captures each test’s output, continues after failures, and reports the final result. It handles SIGINT and SIGTERM by stopping active tests, printing available output, and exiting with the corresponding status. A new regression script checks these behaviors.

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 59b21

Shell tests now run concurrently by default in CI, so confirm they remain independent before merging. On hosts without setsid, interrupting a test can also leave its child running.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 59b21

Parallel execution remains scoped to shell regression tests. Cancellation can miss a test launched immediately before its tracking information is recorded, potentially leaving it running until external cleanup. No new privilege or production-access path was identified in the changed code.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: A test is launched before its PID and reporting metadata are registered, while cancellation handlers are already active. A signal in that interval can leave the new test outside the handler’s tracked cleanup set. This weakens the new cancellation lifecycle’s failure containment, although the demonstrated scope is limited to test processes and no privilege expansion is established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure is execution and cleanup of shell-test processes under the invoking job or local user’s existing authority. The changed code does not demonstrate expanded tenant, production-service, credential, or infrastructure authority; incomplete suite and environment coverage prevents a broader safety conclusion.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new concurrency input is validated as a positive integer and used for scheduling, not evaluated as shell source. Test paths continue to be passed as quoted arguments to Bash. Session creation changes process ownership and signal propagation, not execution identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Registered session-backed tests receive group-directed TERM and KILL, which is strong counterevidence against a general cancellation failure. Without setsid, the direct-PID fallback does not provide equivalent descendant cleanup. This bounds the cancellation guarantee but does not, by itself, establish a newly introduced security exposure compared with the sequential base.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title starts with the lowercase area "ci:" and uses a lowercase summary that accurately describes the parallel shell test changes.
Description Follows The Pr Template		The check only tests whether the description contains four required items with real content. The pr_description supplied in the task contains all four: 1. "## Summary": present and filled in. It s…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The check applies only when a PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/. The PR's changed-file inventory (git diff --name-status against the review base) lists only two fi…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The PR changes two files: ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh (modified) and ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh (added). No CI workflow, lint config, allowlist, skip marker, or test exclusion is touched…
Public-Safe Content		Checked the reviewed diff (ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh modified, ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh added) and the PR title and description against the public-safe criteria. - No credentials, tokens…

Full details: Description Follows The Pr Template

Explanation

The check only tests whether the description contains four required items with real content. The pr_description supplied in the task contains all four: 1. "## Summary": present and filled in. It states that the Shell tests job now runs its 44 regression tests four at a time, one per CPU, instead of sequentially. 2. "## Validation": present and filled in. It names the runs and results: this PR's CI ran all 44 tests, four at a time, and they passed; the new ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh covers pass, fail and hang stubs; shellcheck is clean. 3. "## Severity and risk": present and filled in. It gives "Severity: does not apply; this is a CI speedup." and lists a risk: a test that depends on running alone may fail when run beside others, with SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS=1 as the workaround. 4. "AI assistance:": a line starts with this label and names the tool and its work: "Claude Code drafted the change and this description." No item is only template HTML comments. Per the check, I judged presence only, not quality. I did not run repository tools, because the check concerns the description text, which was supplied in full.

Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test

Explanation

The check applies only when a PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/. The PR's changed-file inventory (git diff --name-status against the review base) lists only two files: ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh (modified) and ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh (added). Neither file is under crates/, shim/, or ui/. The PR title, description, and objectives describe a CI speedup that runs the shell regression tests in parallel, not an application bug fix. The check is therefore not applicable and passes.

Full details: Weakened Safeguards Are Justified

Explanation

The PR changes two files: ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh (modified) and ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh (added). No CI workflow, lint config, allowlist, skip marker, or test exclusion is touched. In the runner diff, the test discovery logic and the empty-set guard (exit 1 when no tests are found) are unchanged. The only removed code is the old sequential loop (bash "${test_file}" under set -e), which stopped at the first failure. The replacement still fails the run: it records each failing test, prints the names, and exits 1. Every test still runs, and failures are still reported, so no assertion is loosened. The change to continue after failures is a behavior change, not a weakened guard. The new regression script adds coverage (pass, fail, hang, SIGTERM, and SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS=0 cases). It does not skip or remove any existing test. No continue-on-error, SPACE_TEST_DEPS_OPTIONAL, or allowlist entries appear in the diff. No item in the custom check's failure list matches the diff.

Full details: Public-Safe Content

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Checked the reviewed diff (ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh modified, ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh added) and the PR title and description against the public-safe criteria. - No credentials, tokens, private keys, or key-like strings. The new test stubs contain only echo and sleep commands. - No internal hostnames, internal URLs, or private tracker, chat, or document links. The only URL is a public GitHub Actions run link in the PR description, and the description's other references are to public PRs in the same repository. - No cloud account IDs or ARNs. - No cluster or internal environment names. The grep for "cluster" and "prod" matched nothing in the diff. - No absolute personal-workstation paths. Pattern searches for /Users/ and /home/ matched nothing. - Timing figures (for example 4.2 min vs 1m48s, and per-test durations) are CI job timings, not raw production measurements or incident details. - No unfixed security vulnerability is described. No sensitive content was found, so there is no finding to report.

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- Line 52: Update the `wait -n -p pid` handling so a return without assigning
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Review — 3 findings

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1. ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh:83: a hung or interrupted test is now invisible, and an interrupt leaves tests running.
   Each test now runs in the background with its output buffered until it ends. I ran the runner against stub tests in a scratch tree:

   • A hung test under a timeout. I killed the runner with timeout -s TERM while one test was still running. The CI log showed nothing for that test, neither its +++ header nor any of the output it had written, because its log sits in log_dir, which the EXIT trap deletes. With the Shell tests job's 30-minute timeout (common-ci.yml), a hang now costs 30 minutes and gives no clue which test hung. The old loop printed the header first and streamed the output.
   • Ctrl-C. I sent SIGINT to the runner's process group. The runner exited 130, but both running tests kept going and finished about 6 s later. A non-interactive Bash starts background jobs with SIGINT ignored, so the tests never get the interrupt.

   Printing started <test> at launch would name a hung test. A TERM/INT trap that kills the PIDs in test_of and prints their logs before log_dir goes would cover both cases.

Low

2. ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh:54: reap() now decides whether CI is green, and nothing tests it. A change that loses a failing test's status, or loops on an empty test_of, would report green. ci/scripts/background-step.sh has test-background-step.sh beside it. A small test-run-shell-tests.sh with pass, fail and hang stubs in a temp tree would cover this runner the same way.
3. ci/scripts/run-shell-tests.sh:8-9: the header gives the test count and a timing ("the 44 tests took 193 s"). Both will drift, and the timing already disagrees with the PR description's 207 s. Describe the mechanism and leave the numbers to the PR.

Verified against 3bda00a4f2e71cafc86fb4aaff2d82f9b755a273. Reproduced locally with Bash 5.3, using stub tests in a scratch tree:

• two at a time, one stub failing: every log printed whole, the failure named, exit 1;
• SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS=0 rejected;
• the timeout and SIGINT cases above.

I also checked the claim that the 44 tests are independent. Every fixed /tmp path, localhost URL and port in them is a stub argument or an expected-output string, and none writes into the repository. I didn't run the real 44 tests concurrently; this PR's CI run did.

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Approved. 3 non-blocking findings in the review comment above.

[zibi-pplx]

Thanks, @the-gigi-pplx. All three are fixed in 88ac9f5:

1. Hung or interrupted tests.

   • Each test's name is printed when it starts.
   • A SIGINT or SIGTERM trap stops the tests still running and prints each one's output so far, before the EXIT trap removes the logs, then exits 130 or 143.
   • Where setsid exists (Linux), each test runs in a session of its own, so stopping it stops its children too.

2. A test for the runner. New ci/scripts/test-run-shell-tests.sh runs a copy of the runner in a scratch tree on pass, fail and hang stubs. It checks:

   • every test's output is printed, and a failure is named and fails the run;
   • passing tests pass it;
   • a SIGTERM during a hang names the hung test, prints its partial output, stops it and exits 143;
   • SPACE_SHELL_TEST_JOBS=0 is refused.

   Removing the signal traps fails it.

3. The header now describes the mechanism and leaves the numbers to the PR.

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- Line 68: Update the interruption cleanup around `wait` to allow a short
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