Fail loudly when a UI dev server dies in breeze dev mode - #71784
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Follow-up to apache#71241. The dev-mode hook discarded the Popen handles of the two Vite dev servers, so a server dying later (e.g. losing a port race) went unnoticed. Worse, on macOS the SIGCHLD from the dead child woke signal.pause(), so the script fell off its end and reported success - the supervisor itself silently disappeared, orphaning the surviving server and leaving the browser on a blank page with no error anywhere.
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Why
Follow-up PR of #71241.
In the prek hook
compile-ui-assets-dev, the script starts the Vite dev server usingPopenthen drops the handles immediately, so a dev server that dies later is never detected.What's even worse: on macOS, the dead child's SIGCHLD wakes
signal.pause(), so the script exits 0 and reports success while the browser shows a blank page.What
Keep both
Popenhandles and poll them every second instead of callingsignal.pause().The pre-hook always starts two Vite dev servers. (port 5173 for UI, 5174 for Simple auth manager)
When any of them exits, the script prints which server died with its exit code and log file, stops the other one, and exits 1. Polling avoids SIGCHLD handling on purpose, since the platform-specific
pause()wakeup above is what made the old failure silent.related: #71241
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