3 people a2fdfce02a Kill shell tool process groups on timeout (#5258) ...

## Summary
- launch shell tool processes in their own process group so Codex owns
the full tree
- on timeout or ctrl-c, send SIGKILL to the process group before
terminating the tracked child
- document that the default shell/unified_exec timeout remains 1000 ms

## Original Bug
Long-lived shell tool commands hang indefinitely because the timeout
handler only terminated the direct child process; any grandchildren it
spawned kept running and held the PTY open, preventing Codex from
regaining control.

## Repro Original Bug
Install next.js and run `next dev` (which is a long-running shell
process with children). On openai:main, it will cause the agent to
permanently get stuck here until human intervention. On this branch,
this command will be terminated successfully after timeout_ms which will
unblock the agent. This is a critical fix for unmonitored / lightly
monitored agents that don't have immediate human observation to unblock
them.

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Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <bolinfest@gmail.com>

2025-11-07 17:54:35 -08:00

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