The discovery `daemon` fixture probed UDS readiness by connecting and
immediately closing. That entered Tractor's actor handshake without an
`Aid` payload and destabilized the remote registrar on macOS before
test roots attempted discovery.
Run the child through a small `open_root_actor()` wrapper and publish a
filesystem sentinel only after runtime startup completes. Poll that
sentinel with process-liveness checks and guaranteed setup-failure
cleanup, without touching the transport socket.
Cover transport-free readiness and deterministic polling backoff.
Caught-during: review remediation
Found-via: `/run-tests` discovery daemon fixture consumers
Cause: initial sentinel drafts mishandled `pytest.Testdir`, emitted
invalid `python -c` syntax, and misplaced return-code logging.
Review: PR #480 (goodboy)
https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/480
(this patch was generated in some part by `opencode` using
`gpt-5.6-sol` (`openai`))
All `daemon` fixture consumers are discovery-
protocol tests now living under `tests/discovery/`.
Move the fixture, its `_wait_for_daemon_ready`
helper, and `test_multi_program.py` into that subdir
so scope matches usage.
Also,
- add `pytestmark` for `track_orphaned_uds_per_test`
+ `detect_runaway_subactors_per_test` to `test_multi_program` as
regression net.
- drop now-unused `_PROC_SPAWN_WAIT` + `socket` import from root
conftest.
(this commit msg was generated in some part by [`claude-code`][claude-code-gh])
[claude-code-gh]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
(cherry picked from commit c4082be876)
Gud Boi