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Flipper 982916b0f2 fix(win): escape spawned command-line args so the index worker gets valid argv
Fixes the Windows-only smoke-windows (standard + ui) failure in the release dry
run, where index_repository reported outcome=exit_nonzero and "Indexing worker
crashed on a file" on big_templated.hpp. It is not the #424 allocator class and
not big_templated.hpp — the file parses fine; the worker never reaches it.

This is the Windows residual of #838. That issue fixed the CLI parser to accept
the supervisor's raw-JSON-positional + --response-out flag layout, verified with a
PowerShell repro where the JSON argument arrives intact. But the real supervisor
spawns the worker via CreateProcessA, whose command-line re-parse strips the JSON's
quotes, so on Windows the now-fixed parser still receives corrupted JSON.

On Windows the index supervisor spawns the worker as
`<self> cli --index-worker index_repository <args_json> ...`, but cbm_run_win
built the CreateProcess command line by wrapping each argv element in bare quotes
with no escaping. Windows re-parses that single string back into argv and strips
the inner quotes, so the JSON argument {"repo_path":"..."} arrived at the child as
{repo_path:...} — invalid JSON. The worker exited non-zero at arg parse
("repo_path is required"); the supervisor classified exit_nonzero and blamed the
last-marked file (big_templated.hpp), producing the misleading crash message.
POSIX is unaffected: cbm_run_posix passes the argv array straight to execv with no
re-parse, which is why only smoke-windows was red while Linux/macOS indexed the
same fixture fine.

Fix: cbm_build_win_cmdline() applies the Microsoft C runtime quoting rules
(quote-wrap + escape embedded quotes and their preceding backslash runs) so the
child re-parses byte-identical argv. It is defined unconditionally (pure string
logic, no Windows headers) and unit-tested on every platform via a round-trip
against a reference CommandLineToArgvW parser.

Also in this change:
- ui/http_server.c: the UI index spawn had a byte-for-byte duplicate of the same
  bug (its own "%s" cmdline). Route it through cbm_build_win_cmdline too.
- mcp/index_supervisor.c: log the worker's raw exit_code and KEEP its log on any
  failure (delete only on a clean run). Previously the log was always deleted and
  only outcome+signal were logged, so a non-zero worker left nothing to diagnose —
  the CI blind spot that hid this bug behind a generic message.

A separate hardening of pipeline/artifact.c's single-quoted git shell-outs (a
different bug class — popen command-string quoting, not CreateProcess argv) is
split into a follow-up PR with its own guard test, per review.

Verified on a CLANG64 build: the supervised big_templated.hpp fixture now indexes
clean (reap outcome=clean exit_code=0); subprocess suite 11/11, affected suites
(git_context, index_resilience, ui, httpd, mcp, security, str_util) green.

Refs: #838, #423
Signed-off-by: Flipper <jacobphilipp@ymail.com>
2026-07-05 13:48:00 +02:00
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