Dialog subprocesses were forked from TestProcess, inheriting its
multiprocessing Queue objects and their process-shared POSIX semaphores
(_wlock). If a fork happened while the feeder thread held _wlock, the
child exited without releasing it, permanently blocking the feeder
thread on the next wacquire() and stalling Python's atexit _finalize_join
— causing test_proc.join() (no timeout) to hang the app for ~15 seconds.
Fix: use multiprocessing.get_context('spawn') for dialog subprocesses so
they start with a clean interpreter and inherit no semaphores or Queue
state. Also add a terminate/kill fallback timeout to test_proc.join() as
a safety net, and fix the missing return in JsonRpcConnection.is_alive().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
francois
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