[mobile-kevin]

Bug

screenrecord --time-limit -1 was accepted: negative values were treated as "no limit" (only if timeLimit > 0 was checked). Two more problems came with it: a recording could keep running on the device after its CLI or daemon went away, and failed or interrupted recordings left /sdcard/mobilecli-rec-*.mp4 files on the device.

Root cause

• No validation. ScreenRecordCommand passed any int through. On Android, a negative value meant the flag was dropped (180s default). On the iOS simulator and remote devices, it meant no timer at all.
• Daemon shutdown never cancelled in-flight handlers. A client disconnect cancels the handler context, but daemon stop and SIGTERM did not. The daemon waited its 10s grace and exited, and the on-device screenrecord kept running. Reproduced on a Pixel 5: after daemon stop the process was still in ps and its file stayed in /sdcard.
• Unbounded wait after a stop. After signaling the recorder, the Android and simulator paths blocked on <-done forever. If the stop signal was missed (the process wasn't found yet, or adb failed), the recording ran until its own time limit while still holding the per-device native-recorder claim. Every later screenrecord on that device then failed with "a screen recording is already in progress".
• Cleanup only on the happy path. The Android rm ran only after a successful pull. Reproduced: -o /nonexistent/dir/x.mp4 left the file on /sdcard.

Fix

• commands.ValidateScreenRecordTimeLimit accepts 0 (no limit) or 1..4294967295, the range Android 14's screenrecord accepts. Anything else gets a clear error, and the check runs for the CLI, RPC and HTTP screenrecord.start paths. Older Android versions cap the limit at 180s. For that case the Android path now returns screenrecord's own output (e.g. "Time limit 200s outside acceptable range [1,180]") instead of a confusing pull failure.
• Daemon: request contexts derive from a server context, and shutdown cancels it before draining in-flight requests. So a daemon stop or SIGTERM stops a recording, finalizes it and cleans up, the same way a client disconnect does.
• Android ScreenRecord:
  • The /sdcard file is deleted in a defer on every exit path.
  • A stop retries SIGINT only until it reaches the process. screenrecord restores the default SIGINT action after the first one, so a second SIGINT would cut finalizing short.
  • If the process hasn't exited after 8s (under the daemon's shutdown grace), it is SIGKILLed so the recorder claim is always released.
  • The pgrep pattern ([s]creenrecord .*<path>) no longer matches the shell running pgrep.
• Simulator ScreenRecord: an interrupted simctl recordVideo gets 8s to finalize, then it is killed.
• iOS real devices (the shared AVC stream) were already stopped through StopChan/ctx. They leave no device-side files and now get the same time-limit validation.

Verification

Live on a Pixel 5 (Android 14), with an isolated daemon (MOBILECLI_HOME):

• --time-limit -1 and --time-limit 4294967296 → invalid time limit ... error, exit 1.
• Pull to a missing directory → error, and the /sdcard file is now removed (before: left behind).
• daemon stop during a 300s recording → the CLI gets an ok result, the MP4 is finalized (valid per ffprobe), there is no screenrecord process left on the device, and no file is left in /sdcard (before: the process kept running and the file stayed).
• kill -9 of the client mid-recording → the next screenrecord succeeds right away, and no process or file is left.
• Confirmed on the device that the new pgrep pattern matches only the recording process.
• Unit tests:
  • time-limit validation, including the Ready signal used by screenrecord.start
  • daemon shutdown cancels in-flight handlers
  • pgrep pattern matching
• go test ./... passes. golangci-lint run --new-from-rev=HEAD reports 0 issues. Full make lint still has the findings that are already on main.

Notes: --time-limit 0 on Android still means the device's default (180s); this PR doesn't change that. I did not test the iOS simulator live: the simulator was assigned to another agent.

Fixes MOB-92

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Screen recording now rejects negative time limits and values above the supported maximum of 4,294,967,295 seconds; zero remains unlimited.
  • Android recording shutdown and cleanup are more reliable, with clearer error details when recording fails.
  • Screen recording processes on Android and simulators now stop within a bounded time, or return an error if they cannot stop in time.
  • Active daemon requests are cancelled during shutdown, helping the daemon exit promptly.

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Walkthrough

Screen-record commands now validate duration limits. Daemon shutdown cancels active request contexts. Android and simulator recording paths wait for recorder exit and enforce bounded stop behavior.

Changes: Screen-record command validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Duration validation commands/screenrecord.go, commands/screenrecord_test.go	The command rejects negative and over-maximum time limits before proceeding. Tests cover accepted boundaries, error responses, and validation errors sent to a ready waiter.

Recorder stop and daemon shutdown

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded device recorder stops devices/common.go, devices/android.go, devices/android_screenrecord_test.go, devices/simulator.go	Android and simulator recording paths use bounded stop behavior. Android captures recorder output, checks its exit result before pulling, and schedules remote-file cleanup. Tests cover Android process matching.
Daemon handler shutdown daemon/server.go, daemon/client.go, daemon/server_test.go, daemon/ensure_test.go	The server derives request contexts from a shared handler context and cancels them after the accept loop exits. Shutdown waits use the exported ShutdownGrace constant. Tests cover cancellation of an active handler.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ShutdownCaller
  participant DaemonClient
  participant DaemonServer
  participant ActiveHandler
  ShutdownCaller->>DaemonClient: Request shutdown
  DaemonClient->>DaemonServer: Close daemon listener
  DaemonServer->>ActiveHandler: Cancel request context
  ActiveHandler-->>DaemonServer: Finish handler
  DaemonServer-->>DaemonClient: Complete shutdown

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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to e3059

If the daemon shuts down while an Android recording is being pulled and the pull stalls, the recording can be left on the device. This is an edge case that needs a bounded pull on the daemon-stop path. The rest of the change looks reasonable, but this should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Explanation

The title follows the conventional commit format and names the two main changes: validating the screen-record time limit and cleaning up interrupted recordings. The raw summary confirms both. The changeset also covers daemon shutdown cancellation and bounded finalization waits, which the title does not mention, but that is expected for a title of this length.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @devices/android.go:
- Line 1476: Reduce the Android stop deadline in the Android stop path around
d.killRemoteScreenRecord so the stop, forced kill, and deferred remote-file
removal fit within the 10-second ShutdownGrace. Change only the Android-specific
budget; preserve recordingStopTimeout because it also governs simulator
recording.

Review comments at @devices/simulator.go:
- Line 788: Update the recording-duration timeout path in ScreenRecord so expiry
enters the same bounded stop flow as stopChan and sigChan, allowing
awaitRecordVideoExit and its existing kill fallback to run. Preserve the timeout
helper’s finalization behavior and ensure the outer select does not remain
blocked after duration expiry.

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• commands/screenrecord.go
• commands/screenrecord_test.go
• daemon/client.go
• daemon/ensure_test.go
• daemon/server.go
• daemon/server_test.go
• devices/android.go
• devices/android_screenrecord_test.go
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• devices/simulator.go

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Reserve time for the forced kill and file removal inside the Android stop budget.

The Android stop deadline starts at 8s. If screenrecord does not exit by then, the forced kill can take up to 2s. The deferred removeRemoteFile can then take up to 2s more. The stop, kill, and removal can therefore total about 12s. This is more than the 10s that ShutdownGrace and the recordingStopTimeout comment describe. Reduce the Android stop budget so that the stop deadline, the kill, and the file removal fit within ShutdownGrace. Apply the change in the Android stop path only, because recordingStopTimeout also governs simulator recording.

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Review comment at @devices/android.go at line 1476:
Reduce the Android stop deadline in the Android stop path around d.killRemoteScreenRecord so the stop, forced kill, and deferred remote-file removal fit within the 10-second ShutdownGrace. Change only the Android-specific budget; preserve recordingStopTimeout because it also governs simulator recording.

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Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Apply the finalization timeout when the recording duration expires.

If simctl does not exit after SIGINT, this timer calls interrupt, but ScreenRecord remains blocked in the outer select. Neither awaitRecordVideoExit nor its kill fallback runs. A recording with --time-limit can therefore exceed its limit indefinitely unless another stop event arrives.

Make duration expiry enter the same bounded stop path as stopChan and sigChan. This unchanged line is the missing integration point for the new timeout helper.

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Review comment at @devices/simulator.go at line 788:
Update the recording-duration timeout path in ScreenRecord so expiry enters the same bounded stop flow as stopChan and sigChan, allowing awaitRecordVideoExit and its existing kill fallback to run. Preserve the timeout helper’s finalization behavior and ensure the outer select does not remain blocked after duration expiry.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @devices/android.go:
- Line 1616: Update the ScreenRecord flow around stopRemoteScreenRecord to
distinguish a daemon-shutdown-triggered stop from a normal CLI stop, and use
runAdbCommandContext with a deadline for the subsequent adb pull only in the
daemon-shutdown case. Preserve the unbounded pull behavior for CLI recordings
and ensure the shutdown-triggered pull returns in time for deferred remote-file
cleanup to run.

Review comments at @devices/simulator.go:
- Around line 832-833: Update the recorder completion branch that receives from
done to return the error supplied by cmd.Wait() instead of unconditionally
returning success. Preserve nil when finalization succeeds and propagate the
completion error when it fails.

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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Bound the adb pull that runs after a shutdown-triggered stop.

After stopChan closes, stopRemoteScreenRecord can use up to 8s. The code then runs runAdbCommand("pull", ...) at devices/android.go:1616. That call uses context.Background() with no deadline, so a stalled or slow pull has no upper bound. While the pull runs, ScreenRecord does not return, and the deferred removeRemoteFile at line 1593 cannot run.

Daemon shutdown cancels in-flight handler contexts and waits only ShutdownGrace (10s). If the pull outlasts that wait and the process exits, the remote recording can remain on the device.

Bounding the pull needs a mode-specific choice. runAdbCommandContext already exists and can enforce a deadline. A deadline applied to every pull would also stop legitimate CLI pulls of large recordings, so the bound should apply only when the stop comes from the daemon.

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Review comment at @devices/android.go at line 1616:
Update the ScreenRecord flow around stopRemoteScreenRecord to distinguish a daemon-shutdown-triggered stop from a normal CLI stop, and use runAdbCommandContext with a deadline for the subsequent adb pull only in the daemon-shutdown case. Preserve the unbounded pull behavior for CLI recordings and ensure the shutdown-triggered pull returns in time for deferred remote-file cleanup to run.

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Return the recorder's completion error.

If simctl fails during finalization, this branch consumes its error and returns nil. The interrupt fallback also kills the process when SIGINT delivery fails, but this branch then reports success without a finalized recording. Preserve the error sent by cmd.Wait().

Proposed fix

--- "a/devices/simulator.go"
+++ "b/devices/simulator.go"
@@ -829,8 +829,8 @@
 // the file it leaves behind is not a complete recording.
 func awaitRecordVideoExit(cmd *exec.Cmd, done <-chan error) error {
 	select {
-	case <-done:
-		return nil
+	case err := <-done:
+		return err
 	case <-time.After(recordingStopTimeout):
 		utils.Info("simctl recordVideo did not stop within %s, killing it", recordingStopTimeout)
 		_ = cmd.Process.Kill()

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IMPORTANT
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Suggested change

	case <-done:
	return nil
	case err := <-done:
	return err

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Review comment at @devices/simulator.go around lines 832 - 833:
Update the recorder completion branch that receives from done to return the error supplied by cmd.Wait() instead of unconditionally returning success. Preserve nil when finalization succeeds and propagate the completion error when it fails.

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