windows: restart daemon children without stopping LanternSvc - #615
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Windows service now enables recovery for non-crash failures and supervises daemon child exits with injectable restart backoff. Tests cover restart, shutdown, cancellation, failure, logging, and recovery configuration behavior. ChangesWindows service recovery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The Windows service now restarts daemon children while keeping the service host running, but repeated failures use a quadratic restart schedule instead of the required capped exponential schedule, which can delay recovery and reconnects. This bounded availability risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WindowsService
participant service.run
participant ChildProcess
participant RestartBackoff
WindowsService->>service.run: Execute service
service.run->>ChildProcess: Start daemon child
ChildProcess-->>service.run: Return exit result
service.run->>RestartBackoff: Wait before restart
RestartBackoff-->>service.run: Complete restart delay
service.run->>ChildProcess: Restart daemon child
WindowsService->>service.run: Request shutdown
service.run->>RestartBackoff: Cancel pending delay
service.run->>ChildProcess: Stop active child
service.run-->>WindowsService: Return service result
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The changes satisfy issue Full details: Out of Scope Changes checkExplanation The changes remain within scope. The backoff constants, documentation updates, Windows service refactor, recovery configuration, and lifecycle tests directly support the child-supervision and recovery objectives.
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the Windows service host (LanternSvc) to supervise and restart its daemon child process in-process (instead of exiting and relying solely on Windows SCM recovery), improving resilience when the daemon terminates unexpectedly.
Changes:
- Centralized daemon restart backoff constants and reused them across babysitting/supervision paths.
- Refactored the Windows service handler to keep running after child exit, perform crash handling, and restart the child with backoff while handling stop/shutdown safely.
- Added Windows-specific unit tests covering restart behavior, stop-during-backoff behavior, and service recovery configuration.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| cmd/lanternd/lanternd.go | Extracts shared backoff constants and wires them into the existing child babysitter loop. |
| cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows.go | Implements in-service child supervision/restart with injected backoff and spawn functions; factors out service recovery configuration. |
| cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows_test.go | Adds unit tests for child restart supervision, stop handling during backoff, restart failure behavior, and service recovery configuration. |
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In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows.go`:
- Around line 89-94: Add Go doc comments immediately before
windowsServiceRecoveryConfigurer, configureWindowsServiceRecovery,
windowsServiceChild, windowsServiceBackoff, and service, documenting their
recovery, cancellation, and test-injection contracts without changing behavior.
- Around line 206-208: Update the newBackoff factory used by newWindowsService
to provide capped exponential delays rather than common.NewBackoff’s quadratic
waitScale × n² behavior. Preserve the windowsServiceBackoff injection interface
and enforce daemonRestartBackoffMax as the upper bound.
In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd.go`:
- Around line 243-247: Add identifier-leading Go doc comments for
daemonRestartBackoffMax and daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter, documenting the
maximum restart delay and the stable-runtime threshold shared by babysit and the
Windows service supervisor.
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In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows.go`:
- Around line 23-30: Update the comments for windowsServiceRecoveryMaxDelay,
windowsServiceStopWaitHint, windowsServiceRecoveryResetPeriod,
windowsServiceChild, and service so each starts with its identifier and remains
a single unwrapped documentation paragraph; add the missing comment for
windowsServiceRecoveryMaxDelay without changing code behavior.
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Fixes getlantern/engineering#3851.
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Why
LanternSvcpreviously returned from its service handler whenever the daemon child exited. Recovery then depended entirely on Windows Service Control Manager configuration, which could leave Lantern installed but unable to reconnect.The service host now supervises the daemon process directly. If the child terminates, Lantern cleans up its network state and starts a replacement while the same
LanternSvcprocess remains running. Windows SCM recovery remains as a fallback if supervision itself fails.The Lantern Windows smoke test confirmed that killing the daemon child creates a replacement child under the same running
LanternSvchost:https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/actions/runs/32820317801
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