fix: prevent TUI gateway stdin EOF crash across all TUI-context subprocess calls

When Hermes runs in TUI mode, the gateway child process communicates with
the Node.js parent over a JSON-RPC protocol on stdin. Subprocess calls that
inherit this stdin fd can trigger a race condition where the child's stdin
read returns EOF, causing the gateway to exit cleanly (exit code 0) mid-tool-
execution.

This is the same root cause as issue #14036 (byterover plugin) and PR #39257
(SSH environment backend). This commit applies the fix — stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL
— to all 85 subprocess.run() and subprocess.Popen() calls that execute inside
the TUI gateway child process.

Scope: TUI-context code only (agent/, tools/, plugins/, tui_gateway/server.py).
CLI code (cli.py, hermes_cli/), tests, scripts, and gateway process management
are excluded — they don't run inside the TUI child and inherit the terminal's
stdin, not the JSON-RPC pipe.

85 call sites across 28 files. All files pass syntax check.
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m4dni5
2026-06-08 22:46:57 -07:00
committed by Teknium
parent 54318c65b0
commit d1f23bb2d5
27 changed files with 84 additions and 20 deletions
+9 -2
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@@ -1041,6 +1041,7 @@ def _git_branch_for_cwd(cwd: str) -> str:
text=True,
timeout=1.5,
check=False,
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
if result.returncode == 0:
branch = result.stdout.strip()
@@ -1052,6 +1053,7 @@ def _git_branch_for_cwd(cwd: str) -> str:
text=True,
timeout=1.5,
check=False,
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
return head.stdout.strip() if head.returncode == 0 else ""
except Exception:
@@ -5571,7 +5573,7 @@ def _(rid, params: dict) -> dict:
str(pdf_path), str(out_prefix),
]
try:
res = subprocess.run(argv, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=120)
res = subprocess.run(argv, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=120, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
return _err(rid, 5028, "pdftoppm timed out (>120s)")
if res.returncode != 0:
@@ -6845,6 +6847,7 @@ def _(rid, params: dict) -> dict:
timeout=min(int(params.get("timeout", 240)), 600),
cwd=os.getcwd(),
env=os.environ.copy(),
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
parts = [r.stdout or "", r.stderr or ""]
out = "\n".join(p for p in parts if p).strip() or "(no output)"
@@ -6905,6 +6908,7 @@ def _(rid, params: dict) -> dict:
capture_output=True,
text=True,
timeout=30,
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
output = (
(r.stdout or "")
@@ -7295,6 +7299,7 @@ def _list_repo_files(root: str) -> list[str]:
capture_output=True,
timeout=2.0,
check=False,
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
if top_result.returncode == 0:
top = top_result.stdout.decode("utf-8", "replace").strip()
@@ -7312,6 +7317,7 @@ def _list_repo_files(root: str) -> list[str]:
capture_output=True,
timeout=2.0,
check=False,
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
if list_result.returncode == 0:
for p in list_result.stdout.decode("utf-8", "replace").split("\0"):
@@ -9045,7 +9051,8 @@ def _(rid, params: dict) -> dict:
return _err(rid, 5001, "shell.exec unavailable: approval safety module not importable")
try:
r = subprocess.run(
cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30, cwd=os.getcwd()
cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30, cwd=os.getcwd(),
stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
return _ok(
rid,