fix(cli): never hop off a busy port into a duplicate proxy - #5015
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A bare `ocx start` beside a healthy proxy could print "Port 58285 is busy; starting opencodex on 62254", bind a second listener, take over this home's pid/runtime records, and re-point Codex at the duplicate while the original kept serving. The hop path never asked who held the preferred port: it read this home's bookkeeping, and `findLiveProxy` returning null - a stale record, a probe that lost a race, a loopback family split - was enough to reach it. chooseListenPort now probes the busy port directly through probePortOwner and routes the answer through the pure decideBusyPreferredPort. An opencodex holder gets the refusal the owner check already prints (exit 0 under OCX_SERVICE=1 so the wrapper loop still terminates); a holder that did not identify as opencodex is reported as such rather than called foreign, because an identity probe cannot tell a foreign server from an unreachable one. Either way the start stops instead of taking an arbitrary port. An explicit --port still waits for its pin, and a configured port of 0 still means "ask the OS". The pre-bind owner probe and the busy-port probe both spend START_OWNERSHIP_LIVENESS (1500ms x 3) instead of one 750ms attempt. A negative answer there is acted on twice over - the start walks past a live proxy AND deletes this home's pid record - so one unanswered probe is not enough evidence. probePortOwner also asks both loopback families, because startServer canonicalizes a localhost bind to 127.0.0.1 while probeHostname leaves the name to the resolver, which on Windows answers ::1 first. Closes #5004
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ChangesBusy Preferred Port Startup
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participant CLI as ocx start
participant Probe as probePortOwner
participant Port as Preferred port holder
participant Decision as decideBusyPreferredPort
CLI->>Probe: Probe busy preferred port
Probe->>Port: Request proxy identity
Port-->>Probe: Identity or no matching response
Probe-->>CLI: Owner result
CLI->>Decision: Classify startup outcome
Decision-->>CLI: Refuse, stay out, or hop
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| - **INV-START-01** — `ocx start` never answers a busy preferred port by starting on another one. It | ||
| identifies the holder first and stops either way: refused as a duplicate when an opencodex answers | ||
| there, reported as an unidentified holder otherwise. A configured `port: 0` still asks the OS for a | ||
| port, and an explicit `--port` still waits for its pin instead of hopping. | ||
| Enforced by `tests/cli/cli-dispatch.test.ts`. |
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When the home is in connected-client mode, handleStart returns through startClientRuntime before calling chooseListenPort, and src/client/runtime.ts:65-68 still enables ephemeral fallback for a bare start. Consequently, the same missed-owner scenario can still hop to another port and overwrite runtime state, while this invariant and its source-oracle test claim that every ocx start stops. Apply the busy-port guard to the connected-client path, or explicitly narrow the invariant and public documentation instead of marking the broader rule as enforced.
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| A start whose preferred port is busy stops and names the holder instead of moving to another port, | ||
| so it can never leave a second proxy running beside the first. Free the port, or name a different | ||
| one with `--port`. Full reference: [CLI docs](https://opencodex.me/reference/cli/). |
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Describe unidentified busy-port holders consistently.
probePortOwner returns an owner only when proxyIdentityAt passes the opencodex health-identity check. Otherwise, src/cli/index.ts enters refuse-unidentified-holder, reports that the holder did not identify as opencodex, and exits. It does not name the process.
Update this claim in README.md and all matching quickstart pages: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. State that startup identifies an opencodex holder only when verification succeeds; otherwise, it reports an unidentified holder.
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Turkish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese quickstart page to state
that the holder is identified as opencodex only when the health-identity
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tests/ci-workflows/docs-readme-translation-parity.test.ts registers each readme/README.<locale>.md against the SHA-256 of README.md it was last synced to, so editing the port-fallback sentence in README.md made all seven locales stale. The same sentence is rewritten in each locale and every sourceSha256 is set to the current README.md hash, in this commit as the manifest requires.
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| Если предпочтительный порт занят, запуск останавливается и сообщает, какой процесс его занимает, вместо перехода | ||
| на другой порт, поэтому второй прокси никогда не останется работать рядом с первым. Освободите порт или укажите | ||
| другой с помощью `--port`. Полный справочник: [документация CLI](https://opencodex.me/ru/reference/cli/). |
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Correct the owner-identification claim in all four translated CLI paragraphs.
In src/cli/index.ts:218-319, the refuse-unidentified-holder branch stops startup and reports only that the holder did not identify as opencodex. It does not report a process name or PID. Update the wording in readme/README.ru.md:324-326, readme/README.tr.md:317-319, readme/README.zh-CN.md:306-307, and readme/README.zh-TW.md:304-305 to state that startup refuses an unidentified holder.
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Merging with one Windows shard red that is not this change.
The other eight Windows shards, the full Linux suite, Worth recording separately, and I have added it to #4956: this is the second test file to show the cold-spawn exposure that #4948 fixed in |
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Summary
On Windows 11, two identical bare
ocx startinvocations against the same home produced different outcomes. The first refused correctly ("Proxy already running (PID 17712, port 58285). Use 'ocx stop' first."); the second printed "Port 58285 is busy; starting opencodex on 62254", bound a second listener, took over this home's pid and runtime-port records, and re-pointed the Codex runtime config at the duplicate while the original kept serving. The reporter was left with two proxies and an editor talking to the wrong one.The hop is the defect this closes.
chooseListenPortwalked away from a busy preferred port without ever asking who held it:findAvailablePortsimply took the next free port, andallowEphemeralFallbackis!hardPin, so any start without an explicit--portcould hop. Every way the owner probe can answer "nobody" - a stale record, a probe that lost a race, a loopback family split - therefore degraded into "start a duplicate and rewire Codex".What changed
src/server/proxy-liveness.tsgainsprobePortOwner: an identity-checked answer to "who holds this exact port", independent of the pid file and the runtime-port record, asked on both loopback families vialoopbackProbeHosts. It also gainsSTART_OWNERSHIP_LIVENESS(1500ms x 3), the budget the stop path already uses for the mirror-image decision.src/cli/dispatch.tsgainsdecideBusyPreferredPort, a pure decision next todecideStartWithLiveOwner. An opencodex holder is refused with the same message the owner path prints, or exits 0 underOCX_SERVICE=1so the service wrapper's retry loop still terminates. A holder that did not identify as opencodex is reported as unidentified rather than called foreign, becauseproxyIdentityAtreturns the samenullfor a foreign server, an unreachable one, and one that lost a race - so the start stops and names--portinstead of silently taking an arbitrary port.src/cli/index.tswires the probe and the decision intochooseListenPortahead of the hop message, and gives the pre-bind owner probe the same budget. That second change matters on its own: a negative answer there is acted on twice over, becausefindProxyOwnerBeforeJournalRecoveryalso deletes this home's pid record and reconciles the journal on the way past.What is deliberately unchanged
An explicit
--portstill never hops - it waits for the pin throughreclaimListenPortand fails rather than moving. A configuredport: 0is a request for an OS-assigned port, not a collision, and still allocates one.shouldPersistSelectedPortand the sibling rules are untouched. The service-wrapper path keeps its exact stay-out-of-the-way semantics on both the owner check and the new busy-port check. A legitimate first start on a machine whose default port is taken is still possible withocx start --port <port>; what is no longer possible is a duplicate of an existing opencodex.On the second defect, stated honestly
I could not prove why the owner probe returned
nullon the reporter's second run, and I do not have a Windows runner to reproduce it. What the source shows: the refusal path of the first run writes and deletes nothing beforeprocess.exit(1), so it did not strip the second run's evidence; the probe was a single 750ms attempt with no retry on transport failure, andproxyIdentityAtdiscards the error, so a timeout is indistinguishable from an empty port; andstartServercanonicalizes a literallocalhostbind to 127.0.0.1 precisely because Windows resolves that name IPv6-first, whileprobeHostnamehands the literal name back and leaves the family to the resolver. The retry budget and the two-family probe address the two candidates that are visible in the code. The first fix is what makes the trigger stop mattering: whatever the probe answers, the outcome is now a refusal rather than a duplicate instance.Two adjacent paths are out of scope and unchanged: the connected-client listener in
src/client/runtime.tshas its own fallback (reached only after the owner check has already refused a live proxy), and a home configured withport: 0has no configured port to collide on.Docs:
README.md, the English lifecycle/quickstart/installation pages, and the same passages in all seven translated locales now describe the refusal instead of the hop.structure/runtime.mdrecords the contract andstructure/overview.mdadds INV-START-01, bound totests/cli/cli-dispatch.test.ts.Closes #5004
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bun testin any form, nobun run typecheck, no build, no install, and noocxinvocation. Correctness was established by reading the source and by static review of the diff; the hosted CI run below is the evidence.ci.ymlwithlane=allon this branch so the nine Windows shards run, sincepull_requestdoes not schedule them. Windows is the reported platform.tests/cli/cli-dispatch.test.ts- thedecideBusyPreferredPortmatrix at runtime, using the reported shape (preferred 58285 held, ephemeral 62254 free): an opencodex holder refuses, an unidentified holder refuses,OCX_SERVICE=1stays out, only the exact1sentinel counts as service context, andport: 0/ hard pin / no-hop still proceed. Plus source oracles thatchooseListenPortprobes before it decides and decides before it can print the hop message, that both refusals exit 1 and the stay-out exits 0, and that the pre-bind owner probe spends the same budget before it deletes the pid record.tests/server/proxy-liveness.test.ts-loopbackProbeHostsfor every bind spelling,probePortOwnerfinding an owner that answers only on the other loopback family, surviving two lost probes before succeeding, and returningnullfor both a foreign body and a refused connection.tests/cli/cli-ready.test.ts- the existinghandleStartoracle matched "Proxy already running ... exit(1)" anywhere in the file.chooseListenPortnow carries an earlier stay-out/refusal pair, so the match would have silently moved to the new code and stopped asserting anything about the owner branch. It is now anchored atdecideStartWithLiveOwner({.probePortOwner,loopbackProbeHosts, andSTART_OWNERSHIP_LIVENESSdo not exist ondev, and the source oracles assert call sites the oldchooseListenPortdoes not have.Checklist
Security note: no auth, credential, token, workflow, release-automation, or dependency-installation surface is touched. The new probe is the existing loopback
/healthzidentity request throughdirectLocalHttpFetch, which bypasses proxy environment variables; nothing new is logged beyond the pid and port the refusal already printed.Summary by CodeRabbit
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ocx startnow identifies the process using a busy preferred port and stops instead of silently switching ports.--portto select another port orport: 0to request one from the operating system.Documentation