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Fixes #8458

sites:list kept running after the reader closed the pipe, then the crash handler spawned envinfo over and over.

Writes now treat EPIPE as a normal stop and skip the crash report.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • CLI commands now exit cleanly when their output is piped to a process that closes the stream early.
    • Broken-pipe errors no longer produce unnecessary error messages or nonzero exit codes.
    • Standard output and error handling now consistently manages closed output streams.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for common broken-pipe conditions and clean CLI termination.

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The CLI now recognizes EPIPE and ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED errors during output. Output helpers exit with status 0 for these errors and rethrow other errors. Standard output and error streams use dedicated broken-pipe handlers. Uncaught broken-pipe exceptions exit before generic exception handling. Unit tests cover error detection and logging behavior.

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Fixed issue severity: <fixed_issue_severity>High</fixed_issue_severity>

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6bc47

This change correctly makes the CLI exit cleanly on broken pipes (e.g. piping to head), which resolves the reported zombie-process issue. However, the new stdout/stderr error listeners currently swallow non-broken-pipe write errors instead of rethrowing them, which could mask genuine output failures that previously surfaced through the crash handler. There is also a small lint issue in the new test file that could fail CI. Both are straightforward to fix before merge.

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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #8458 by treating EPIPE and ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED as normal termination conditions, handling stdout and stderr stream errors, and preventing the crash handler from retrying af…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to broken-pipe detection, safe CLI output handling, process error handling, and focused unit tests. No unrelated changes are present.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 3…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: exiting when stdout encounters a broken pipe.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the broken-pipe issue, the repeated crash-handler behavior, and the intended EPIPE handling.
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In `@src/commands/main.ts`:
- Around line 80-84: Update exitIfBrokenPipe to rethrow the received error when
isBrokenPipe(err) is false, while preserving the existing clean process exit for
broken-pipe errors.

In `@tests/unit/utils/command-helpers.test.ts`:
- Line 41: Update the log assertion callback to use a block body so it invokes
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Comment thread src/commands/main.ts
Comment on lines +80 to +84
const exitIfBrokenPipe = (err: NodeJS.ErrnoException) => {
if (isBrokenPipe(err)) {
process.exit(0)
}
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Rethrow non-broken-pipe stream errors.

The registered error listener consumes every stdout and stderr error. When isBrokenPipe(err) is false, this helper returns normally. Errors such as EIO then bypass the uncaughtException handler and the CLI can continue after output failure.

Rethrow errors that are not broken-pipe errors.

Proposed fix
 const exitIfBrokenPipe = (err: NodeJS.ErrnoException) => {
   if (isBrokenPipe(err)) {
     process.exit(0)
   }
+  throw err
 }

Also applies to: 86-87

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In `@src/commands/main.ts` around lines 80 - 84, Update exitIfBrokenPipe to
rethrow the received error when isBrokenPipe(err) is false, while preserving the
existing clean process exit for broken-pipe errors.

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throw new Error('exited')
})

expect(() => log('hello')).toThrow('exited')

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use a block-bodied callback in this assertion.

The callback returns the void result of log. ESLint reports @typescript-eslint/no-confusing-void-expression for this line. This can fail the lint check.

Proposed fix
-    expect(() => log('hello')).toThrow('exited')
+    expect(() => {
+      log('hello')
+    }).toThrow('exited')
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expect(() => log('hello')).toThrow('exited')
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[error] 41-41: Returning a void expression from an arrow function shorthand is forbidden. Please add braces to the arrow function.

(@typescript-eslint/no-confusing-void-expression)

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In `@tests/unit/utils/command-helpers.test.ts` at line 41, Update the log
assertion callback to use a block body so it invokes log without implicitly
returning its void result, while preserving the existing expected "exited"
exception behavior.

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sites:list leaks ~10 zombie processes/second when stdout pipe closes early (exhausts cgroup PID limit)

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