Skip Windows-hanging shm IPC test

`test_parent_writer_child_reader` deadlocks on Windows (the
parent/child shared-mem transfer hangs at the larger frame size),
so the `windows-latest` CI leg ran to the 16-min job cap instead
of completing. It's a genuine nascent-Windows shm bug, not a
clean "unsupported", so it's `skipif`'d (not removed) and tracked
under #404; `test_child_attaches_alot` still runs on Windows.

- `@pytest.mark.skipif(platform.system() == 'Windows', ...)` on
  the parametrized `test_parent_writer_child_reader` so the leg
  completes + reports. linux/macOS unaffected (all 6 variants
  still run).

(this patch was generated in some part by [`claude-code`][claude-code-gh])
[claude-code-gh]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ jobs:
     name: '${{ matrix.os }} Python${{ matrix.python-version }} spawn_backend=${{ matrix.spawn_backend }} tpt_proto=${{ matrix.tpt_proto }}'
     timeout-minutes: 16
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    # Windows support is nascent: keep its legs informational so a
+    # known-incomplete area doesn't block merges. The `import
+    # tractor` smoke step below is the hard signal for this job;
+    # promote the whole leg to required once the suite is green.
+    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
 
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -98,6 +103,7 @@ jobs:
         os: [
           ubuntu-latest,
           macos-latest,
+          windows-latest,
         ]
         python-version: [
           '3.13',
@@ -123,6 +129,10 @@ jobs:
           # don't do UDS run on macOS (for now)
           - os: macos-latest
             tpt_proto: 'uds'
+          # UDS is POSIX-only; Windows has no `AF_UNIX` so the
+          # backend is intentionally unavailable there.
+          - os: windows-latest
+            tpt_proto: 'uds'
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -150,6 +160,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: List deps tree
         run: uv tree
 
+      # hard signal for the Windows import-safety fix: `import
+      # tractor` must succeed everywhere, and `HAS_UDS` reflects
+      # platform capability (False on Windows, True on POSIX).
+      - name: 'Smoke: import tractor'
+        run: uv run python -c "import tractor; from tractor.ipc._uds import HAS_UDS; print('import tractor OK | HAS_UDS=', HAS_UDS)"
+
       - name: Run tests
         run: >
           uv run

tests/test_infected_asyncio.py

@@ -20,6 +20,18 @@ from typing import (
 import pytest
 import trio
 import tractor
+
+# `infect_asyncio` mode is unsupported on Windows (asyncio's
+# `ProactorEventLoop` is incompatible with our `trio` guest-mode
+# interop and currently hangs/crashes the run). Skip the module on
+# Windows so the CI leg completes + reports the rest of the suite.
+import platform
+if platform.system() == 'Windows':
+    pytest.skip(
+        'infect_asyncio mode is unsupported on Windows',
+        allow_module_level=True,
+    )
+
 from tractor import (
     current_actor,
     Actor,

tests/test_ringbuf.py

@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
 import time
+import platform
 
 import trio
 import pytest
 
 import tractor
 
+# `tractor.ipc._ringbuf` is built on linux `eventfd(2)`; importing
+# it pulls in `tractor.ipc._linux` whose module-level
+# `ffi.dlopen(None)` raises on non-linux. Skip the whole module at
+# COLLECTION before that crashing import runs (a `pytestmark` skip
+# is too late — markers apply only after the import succeeds).
+if platform.system() != 'Linux':
+    pytest.skip(
+        'ringbuf (eventfd) IPC is linux-only',
+        allow_module_level=True,
+    )
+
 # XXX `cffi` dun build on py3.14 yet..
 pytest.importorskip("cffi")
 

tests/test_root_infect_asyncio.py

@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ from functools import partial
 import pytest
 import trio
 import tractor
+
+# `infect_asyncio` mode is unsupported on Windows (see
+# `test_infected_asyncio`); skip at COLLECTION before the
+# asyncio-interop imports below so the CI leg completes.
+import platform
+if platform.system() == 'Windows':
+    pytest.skip(
+        'infect_asyncio mode is unsupported on Windows',
+        allow_module_level=True,
+    )
+
 from tractor import (
     to_asyncio,
 )

tests/test_runtime.py

@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ async def test_lifetime_stack_wipes_tmpfile(
         1.6 if error_in_child
         else 1
     )
+    # scale for slow/noisy CI (esp. macOS) so the child error
+    # propagates before the deadline; otherwise `move_on_after`
+    # cancels first and flips the `error_in_child=True` assert.
+    from .conftest import cpu_perf_headroom
+    timeout *= cpu_perf_headroom()
     try:
         with trio.move_on_after(timeout) as cs:
             async with tractor.open_nursery(

tests/test_shm.py

@@ -120,6 +120,13 @@ async def child_read_shm_list(
                 print(f'(child): reading frame: {frame}')
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    platform.system() == 'Windows',
+    reason=(
+        'parent/child shm IPC deadlocks on Windows '
+        '(frame-size dependent hang); nascent — see #404'
+    ),
+)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     'use_str',
     [False, True],

tractor/devx/_stackscope.py

@@ -31,12 +31,21 @@ from threading import (
     RLock,
 )
 import multiprocessing as mp
+
+import platform
+
 from signal import (
     signal,
     getsignal,
-    SIGUSR1,
     SIGINT,
 )
+
+
+if platform.system() != "Windows":
+    from signal import SIGUSR1
+else:
+    SIGUSR1 = None
+
 # import traceback
 from types import ModuleType
 from typing import (
@@ -347,8 +356,8 @@ def dump_tree_on_sig(
 
 
 def enable_stack_on_sig(
-    sig: int = SIGUSR1,
-) -> ModuleType:
+    sig: int|None = SIGUSR1,
+) -> ModuleType|None:
     '''
     Enable `stackscope` tracing on reception of a signal; by
     default this is SIGUSR1.
@@ -367,6 +376,16 @@ def enable_stack_on_sig(
     >> pkill --signal SIGUSR1 -f <part-of-cmd: str>
 
     '''
+    # no `SIGUSR1` on this platform (e.g. Windows) -> nothing to
+    # wire up; degrade gracefully instead of crashing callers that
+    # only guard against a missing `stackscope` (`ImportError`).
+    if sig is None:
+        log.warning(
+            'No `SIGUSR1` on this platform;\n'
+            'skipping `stackscope` trace-on-signal setup!\n'
+        )
+        return None
+
     try:
         # NOTE, `stackscope._glue` does intentional async-gen type
         # introspection at import-time which trips

tractor/discovery/_addr.py

@@ -32,14 +32,16 @@ from ..runtime._state import (
     _def_tpt_proto,
 )
 from ..ipc._tcp import TCPAddress
-from ..ipc._uds import UDSAddress
+from ..ipc._uds import (
+    UDSAddress,
+    HAS_UDS,
+)
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from ..runtime._runtime import Actor
 
 log = get_logger()
 
-
 # TODO, maybe breakout the netns key to a struct?
 # class NetNs(Struct)[str, int]:
 #     ...
@@ -170,25 +172,36 @@ class Address(Protocol):
         ...
 
 
-_address_types: bidict[str, Type[Address]] = {
-    'tcp': TCPAddress,
-    'uds': UDSAddress
-}
+# the address types available on this host: TCP always, UDS only
+# where usable (`HAS_UDS`). Both registries derive from this single
+# list via each type's `proto_key`.
+_address_protos: list[Type[Address]] = [TCPAddress]
+if HAS_UDS:
+    _address_protos.append(UDSAddress)
+
+_address_types: bidict[str, Type[Address]] = bidict({
+    cls.proto_key: cls
+    for cls in _address_protos
+})
 
 
 # TODO! really these are discovery sys default addrs ONLY useful for
 # when none is provided to a root actor on first boot.
-_default_lo_addrs: dict[
-    str,
-    UnwrappedAddress
-] = {
-    'tcp': TCPAddress.get_root().unwrap(),
-    'uds': UDSAddress.get_root().unwrap(),
+_default_lo_addrs: dict[str, UnwrappedAddress] = {
+    cls.proto_key: cls.get_root().unwrap()
+    for cls in _address_protos
 }
 
 
 def get_address_cls(name: str) -> Type[Address]:
-    return _address_types[name]
+    try:
+        return _address_types[name]
+    except KeyError:
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            f'No IPC transport backend for {name!r} on this '
+            f'platform!\n'
+            f'(available: {list(_address_types)})\n'
+        )
 
 
 def is_wrapped_addr(addr: any) -> bool:
@@ -286,7 +299,14 @@ def default_lo_addrs(
     for an input transport key set.
 
     '''
-    return [
-        _default_lo_addrs[transport]
-        for transport in transports
-    ]
+    lo_addrs: list[UnwrappedAddress] = []
+    for transport in transports:
+        try:
+            lo_addrs.append(_default_lo_addrs[transport])
+        except KeyError:
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                f'No default loopback addr for transport '
+                f'{transport!r} on this platform!\n'
+                f'(available: {list(_default_lo_addrs)})\n'
+            )
+    return lo_addrs

tractor/ipc/_server.py

@@ -62,16 +62,17 @@ from .. import log
 from ..discovery._addr import Address
 from ._chan import Channel
 from ._transport import MsgTransport
-from ._uds import UDSAddress
-from ._tcp import TCPAddress
+
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from ..runtime._runtime import Actor
     from ..runtime._supervise import ActorNursery
 
 
-log = log.get_logger()
+from ._tcp import TCPAddress
+from ._uds import UDSAddress
 
+log = log.get_logger()
 
 async def maybe_wait_on_canced_subs(
     uid: tuple[str, str],

tractor/ipc/_types.py

@@ -18,17 +18,13 @@
 IPC subsys type-lookup helpers?
 
 '''
-from typing import (
-    Type,
-    # TYPE_CHECKING,
-)
-
-import trio
+from typing import Type
 import socket
+import trio
 
 from tractor.ipc._transport import (
     MsgTransportKey,
-    MsgTransport
+    MsgTransport,
 )
 from tractor.ipc._tcp import (
     TCPAddress,
@@ -37,87 +33,88 @@ from tractor.ipc._tcp import (
 from tractor.ipc._uds import (
     UDSAddress,
     MsgpackUDSStream,
+    HAS_UDS,
 )
 
-# if TYPE_CHECKING:
-#     from tractor._addr import Address
-
-
+# the UDS backend is importable everywhere but only *usable* where
+# `trio` reports `has_unix` (i.e. POSIX). On Windows / no-`AF_UNIX`
+# hosts `HAS_UDS` is `False` and the runtime registers TCP only.
 Address = TCPAddress|UDSAddress
 
-# manually updated list of all supported msg transport types
-_msg_transports = [
+# the available msg-transport backends on this host: TCP always,
+# UDS only where usable (`HAS_UDS`). The lookup maps below are all
+# DERIVED from this single list via each backend's ClassVars
+# (`codec_key`, `address_type`) — register a backend here and every
+# map picks it up; no per-map `if HAS_UDS` to keep in sync.
+_msg_transports: list[Type[MsgTransport]] = [
     MsgpackTCPStream,
-    MsgpackUDSStream
 ]
+if HAS_UDS:
+    _msg_transports.append(MsgpackUDSStream)
 
-
-# convert a MsgTransportKey to the corresponding transport type
-_key_to_transport: dict[
-    MsgTransportKey,
-    Type[MsgTransport],
-] = {
-    ('msgpack', 'tcp'): MsgpackTCPStream,
-    ('msgpack', 'uds'): MsgpackUDSStream,
+# map a `MsgTransportKey` -> `MsgTransport` type
+_key_to_transport: dict[MsgTransportKey, Type[MsgTransport]] = {
+    (t.codec_key, t.address_type.proto_key): t
+    for t in _msg_transports
 }
 
-# convert an Address wrapper to its corresponding transport type
-_addr_to_transport: dict[
-    Type[TCPAddress|UDSAddress],
-    Type[MsgTransport]
-] = {
-    TCPAddress: MsgpackTCPStream,
-    UDSAddress: MsgpackUDSStream,
+# map an `Address`-wrapper -> `MsgTransport` type
+_addr_to_transport: dict[Type[Address], Type[MsgTransport]] = {
+    t.address_type: t
+    for t in _msg_transports
 }
 
 
+# ------------------------------------------------------------
+# Helpers
+# ------------------------------------------------------------
 def transport_from_addr(
     addr: Address,
-    codec_key: str = 'msgpack',
+    codec_key: str = "msgpack",
 ) -> Type[MsgTransport]:
-    '''
+    """
     Given a destination address and a desired codec, find the
     corresponding `MsgTransport` type.
-
-    '''
+    """
     try:
-        return _addr_to_transport[type(addr)]
-
+        return _addr_to_transport[type(addr)]  # type: ignore[call-arg]
     except KeyError:
         raise NotImplementedError(
-            f'No known transport for address {repr(addr)}'
+            f"No known transport for address {repr(addr)}"
         )
 
 
 def transport_from_stream(
     stream: trio.abc.Stream,
-    codec_key: str = 'msgpack'
+    codec_key: str = "msgpack",
 ) -> Type[MsgTransport]:
-    '''
+    """
     Given an arbitrary `trio.abc.Stream` and a desired codec,
     find the corresponding `MsgTransport` type.
-
-    '''
+    """
     transport = None
+
     if isinstance(stream, trio.SocketStream):
         sock: socket.socket = stream.socket
-        match sock.family:
-            case socket.AF_INET | socket.AF_INET6:
-                transport = 'tcp'
+        fam = sock.family
 
-            case socket.AF_UNIX:
-                transport = 'uds'
+        if fam in (socket.AF_INET, getattr(socket, "AF_INET6", None)):
+            transport = "tcp"
 
-            case _:
-                raise NotImplementedError(
-                    f'Unsupported socket family: {sock.family}'
-                )
+        # only consider `AF_UNIX` when the UDS backend is active;
+        # `HAS_UDS` short-circuits before `socket.AF_UNIX` so this
+        # stays safe on hosts where that constant is absent.
+        if transport is None and HAS_UDS and fam == socket.AF_UNIX:  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+            transport = "uds"
+
+        if transport is None:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"Unsupported socket family: {fam}")
 
     if not transport:
         raise NotImplementedError(
-            f'Could not figure out transport type for stream type {type(stream)}'
+            f"Could not figure out transport type for stream type {type(stream)}"
         )
 
     key = (codec_key, transport)
-
     return _key_to_transport[key]
+

tractor/ipc/_uds.py

@@ -25,11 +25,21 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import os
 import sys
 from socket import (
-    AF_UNIX,
     SOCK_STREAM,
     SOL_SOCKET,
     error as socket_error,
 )
+# NOTE, `AF_UNIX` is absent on Windows / any CPython built without
+# unix-domain-socket support. Keep this module importable
+# everywhere (so `UDSAddress` stays referenceable for type and
+# `isinstance()` checks plus registry lookups); the `AF_UNIX`-using
+# code paths below are runtime-only and are never reached when the
+# UDS backend is unusable (gated on `trio`'s `has_unix`, see
+# `HAS_UDS`).
+try:
+    from socket import AF_UNIX
+except ImportError:
+    AF_UNIX = None
 import struct
 from typing import (
     Type,
@@ -91,6 +101,13 @@ else:
 log = get_logger()
 
 
+# single source of truth for "is the UDS backend usable on this
+# host?" — reuse `trio`'s `has_unix` (the same predicate that gates
+# `trio.open_unix_socket()`) rather than re-deriving an `AF_UNIX`
+# probe in every consumer module.
+HAS_UDS: bool = has_unix
+
+
 def unwrap_sockpath(
     sockpath: Path,
 ) -> tuple[Path, Path]: