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Remote-control workers report busy state so upgrades wait for idle

Remote-control upgrades now wait for a worker to go idle instead of cutting sessions off.

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Remote ControlArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.248,
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What

A worker process that handles remote-control sessions now tells its parent daemon whether it has active sessions, sending busy and idle transitions plus a repeating keepalive while work is in flight. The daemon uses this to defer restarting for an upgrade until the worker goes idle, rather than interrupting live sessions.

Details
  • Deferral is gated on tengu_daemon_upgrade_defer_busy, which falls back to on when the server returns nothing.
  • The worker sends a message of type rc_busy carrying the current busy flag.
  • The same busy flag decides whether active sessions are persisted when the worker shuts down.
  • The worker does not decide to stop on its own: it waits for the parent to push a shutdown message whose cause is upgrade, reload or yield, and exposes that cause so the upgrade path can act on it.
Evidence

rc_busy, process.send({ type: "rc_busy", busy: g })

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