Merge pull request #358 from goodboy/switch_to_pdbp

Switch to `pdbp` 🏄🏼

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1,41 +1,131 @@
 name: CI
 
-on: push
+on:
+  # any time someone pushes a new branch to origin
+  push:
+
+  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
+
   mypy:
     name: 'MyPy'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
       - name: Setup python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          python-version: '3.8'
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: pip install -U . --upgrade-strategy eager
-      - name: Run MyPy check
-        run: mypy tractor/ --ignore-missing-imports
+          python-version: '3.10'
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: pip install -U . --upgrade-strategy eager -r requirements-test.txt
+
+      - name: Run MyPy check
+        run: mypy tractor/ --ignore-missing-imports --show-traceback
+
+  # test that we can generate a software distribution and install it
+  # thus avoid missing file issues after packaging.
+  sdist-linux:
+    name: 'sdist'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
-  testing:
-    name: '${{ matrix.os }} Python ${{ matrix.python }} - ${{ matrix.spawn_backend }}'
-    timeout-minutes: 10
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
-        python: ['3.7', '3.8', '3.9']
-        spawn_backend: ['trio', 'mp']
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.10'
+
+      - name: Build sdist
+        run: python setup.py sdist --formats=zip
+
+      - name: Install sdist from .zips
+        run: python -m pip install dist/*.zip
+
+
+  testing-linux:
+    name: '${{ matrix.os }} Python ${{ matrix.python }} - ${{ matrix.spawn_backend }}'
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest]
+        python: ['3.10']
+        spawn_backend: [
+          'trio',
+          'mp_spawn',
+          'mp_forkserver',
+        ]
+
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
       - name: Setup python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
           python-version: '${{ matrix.python }}'
+
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: pip install -U . -r requirements-test.txt -r requirements-docs.txt --upgrade-strategy eager
+
+      - name: List dependencies
+        run: pip list
+
       - name: Run tests
-        run: pytest tests/ --spawn-backend=${{ matrix.spawn_backend }} -rs
+        run: pytest tests/ --spawn-backend=${{ matrix.spawn_backend }} -rsx
+
+  # We skip 3.10 on windows for now due to not having any collabs to
+  # debug the CI failures. Anyone wanting to hack and solve them is very
+  # welcome, but our primary user base is not using that OS.
+
+  # TODO: use job filtering to accomplish instead of repeated
+  # boilerplate as is above XD:
+  # - https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/managing-complex-workflows
+  # - https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/managing-complex-workflows#using-a-build-matrix
+  # - https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idif
+  # testing-windows:
+  #   name: '${{ matrix.os }} Python ${{ matrix.python }} - ${{ matrix.spawn_backend }}'
+  #   timeout-minutes: 12
+  #   runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
+  #   strategy:
+  #     fail-fast: false
+  #     matrix:
+  #       os: [windows-latest]
+  #       python: ['3.10']
+  #       spawn_backend: ['trio', 'mp']
+
+  #   steps:
+
+  #     - name: Checkout
+  #       uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+  #     - name: Setup python
+  #       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+  #       with:
+  #         python-version: '${{ matrix.python }}'
+
+  #     - name: Install dependencies
+  #       run: pip install -U . -r requirements-test.txt -r requirements-docs.txt --upgrade-strategy eager
+
+  #     # TODO: pretty sure this solves debugger deps-issues on windows, but it needs to
+  #     # be verified by someone with a native setup.
+  #     # - name: Force pyreadline3
+  #     #   run: pip uninstall pyreadline; pip install -U pyreadline3
+
+  #     - name: List dependencies
+  #       run: pip list
+
+  #     - name: Run tests
+  #       run: pytest tests/ --spawn-backend=${{ matrix.spawn_backend }} -rsx

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MANIFEST.in

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/using-manifest-in/#using-manifest-in
+include docs/README.rst

NEWS.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,528 @@
+=========
+Changelog
+=========
+
+.. towncrier release notes start
+
+tractor 0.1.0a5 (2022-08-03)
+============================
+
+This is our final release supporting Python 3.9 since we will be moving
+internals to the new `match:` syntax from 3.10 going forward and
+further, we have officially dropped usage of the `msgpack` library and
+happily adopted `msgspec`.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- `#165 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/165>`_: Add SIGINT
+  protection to our `pdbpp` based debugger subystem such that for
+  (single-depth) actor trees in debug mode we ignore interrupts in any
+  actor currently holding the TTY lock thus avoiding clobbering IPC
+  connections and/or task and process state when working in the REPL.
+
+  As a big note currently so called "nested" actor trees (trees with
+  actors having more then one parent/ancestor) are not fully supported
+  since we don't yet have a mechanism to relay the debug mode knowledge
+  "up" the actor tree (for eg. when handling a crash in a leaf actor).
+  As such currently there is a set of tests and known scenarios which will
+  result in process cloberring by the zombie repaing machinery and these
+  have been documented in https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/320.
+
+  The implementation details include:
+
+  - utilizing a custom SIGINT handler which we apply whenever an actor's
+    runtime enters the debug machinery, which we also make sure the
+    stdlib's `pdb` configuration doesn't override (which it does by
+    default without special instance config).
+  - litter the runtime with `maybe_wait_for_debugger()` mostly in spots
+    where the root actor should block before doing embedded nursery
+    teardown ops which both cancel potential-children-in-deubg as well
+    as eventually trigger zombie reaping machinery.
+  - hardening of the TTY locking semantics/API both in terms of IPC
+    terminations and cancellation and lock release determinism from
+    sync debugger instance methods.
+  - factoring of locking infrastructure into a new `._debug.Lock` global
+    which encapsulates all details of the ``trio`` sync primitives and
+    task/actor uid management and tracking.
+
+  We also add `ctrl-c` cases throughout the test suite though these are
+  disabled for py3.9 (`pdbpp` UX differences that don't seem worth
+  compensating for, especially since this will be our last 3.9 supported
+  release) and there are a slew of marked cases that aren't expected to
+  work in CI more generally (as mentioned in the "nested" tree note
+  above) despite seemingly working  when run manually on linux.
+
+- `#304 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/304>`_: Add a new
+  ``to_asyncio.LinkedTaskChannel.subscribe()`` which gives task-oriented
+  broadcast functionality semantically equivalent to
+  ``tractor.MsgStream.subscribe()`` this makes it possible for multiple
+  ``trio``-side tasks to consume ``asyncio``-side task msgs in tandem.
+
+  Further Improvements to the test suite were added in this patch set
+  including a new scenario test for a sub-actor managed "service nursery"
+  (implementing the basics of a "service manager") including use of
+  *infected asyncio* mode. Further we added a lower level
+  ``test_trioisms.py`` to start to track issues we need to work around in
+  ``trio`` itself which in this case included a bug we were trying to
+  solve related to https://github.com/python-trio/trio/issues/2258.
+
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+- `#318 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/318>`_: Fix
+  a previously undetected ``trio``-``asyncio`` task lifetime linking
+  issue with the ``to_asyncio.open_channel_from()`` api where both sides
+  where not properly waiting/signalling termination and it was possible
+  for ``asyncio``-side errors to not propagate due to a race condition.
+
+  The implementation fix summary is:
+  - add state to signal the end of the ``trio`` side task to be
+    read by the ``asyncio`` side and always cancel any ongoing
+    task in such cases.
+  - always wait on the ``asyncio`` task termination from the ``trio``
+    side on error before maybe raising said error.
+  - always close the ``trio`` mem chan on exit to ensure the other
+    side can detect it and follow.
+
+
+Trivial/Internal Changes
+------------------------
+
+- `#248 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/248>`_: Adjust the
+  `tractor._spawn.soft_wait()` strategy to avoid sending an actor cancel
+  request (via `Portal.cancel_actor()`) if either the child process is
+  detected as having terminated or the IPC channel is detected to be
+  closed.
+
+  This ensures (even) more deterministic inter-actor cancellation by
+  avoiding the timeout condition where possible when a whild never
+  sucessfully spawned, crashed, or became un-contactable over IPC.
+
+- `#295 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/295>`_: Add an
+  experimental ``tractor.msg.NamespacePath`` type for passing Python
+  objects by "reference" through a ``str``-subtype message and using the
+  new ``pkgutil.resolve_name()`` for reference loading.
+
+- `#298 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/298>`_: Add a new
+  `tractor.experimental` subpackage for staging new high level APIs and
+  subystems that we might eventually make built-ins.
+
+- `#300 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/300>`_: Update to and
+  pin latest ``msgpack`` (1.0.3) and ``msgspec`` (0.4.0) both of which
+  required adjustments for backwards imcompatible API tweaks.
+
+- `#303 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/303>`_: Fence off
+  ``multiprocessing`` imports until absolutely necessary in an effort to
+  avoid "resource tracker" spawning side effects that seem to have
+  varying degrees of unreliability per Python release. Port to new
+  ``msgspec.DecodeError``.
+
+- `#305 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/305>`_: Add
+  ``tractor.query_actor()`` an addr looker-upper which doesn't deliver
+  a ``Portal`` instance and instead just a socket address ``tuple``.
+
+  Sometimes it's handy to just have a simple way to figure out if
+  a "service" actor is up, so add this discovery helper for that. We'll
+  prolly just leave it undocumented for now until we figure out
+  a longer-term/better discovery system.
+
+- `#316 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/316>`_: Run windows
+  CI jobs on python 3.10 after some hacks for ``pdbpp`` dependency
+  issues.
+
+  Issue was to do with the now deprecated `pyreadline` project which
+  should be changed over to `pyreadline3`.
+
+- `#317 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/317>`_: Drop use of
+  the ``msgpack`` package and instead move fully to the ``msgspec``
+  codec library.
+
+  We've now used ``msgspec`` extensively in production and there's no
+  reason to not use it as default. Further this change preps us for the up
+  and coming typed messaging semantics (#196), dialog-unprotocol system
+  (#297), and caps-based messaging-protocols (#299) planned before our
+  first beta.
+
+
+tractor 0.1.0a4 (2021-12-18)
+============================
+
+Features
+--------
+- `#275 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/275>`_: Re-license
+  code base under AGPLv3. Also see `#274
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/274>`_ for majority
+  contributor consensus on this decision.
+
+- `#121 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/121>`_: Add
+  "infected ``asyncio`` mode; a sub-system to spawn and control
+  ``asyncio`` actors using ``trio``'s guest-mode.
+
+  This gets us the following very interesting functionality:
+
+  - ability to spawn an actor that has a process entry point of
+    ``asyncio.run()`` by passing ``infect_asyncio=True`` to
+    ``Portal.start_actor()`` (and friends).
+  - the ``asyncio`` actor embeds ``trio`` using guest-mode and starts
+    a main ``trio`` task which runs the ``tractor.Actor._async_main()``
+    entry point engages all the normal ``tractor`` runtime IPC/messaging
+    machinery; for all purposes the actor is now running normally on
+    a ``trio.run()``.
+  - the actor can now make one-to-one task spawning requests to the
+    underlying ``asyncio`` event loop using either of:
+
+    * ``to_asyncio.run_task()`` to spawn and run an ``asyncio`` task to
+      completion and block until a return value is delivered.
+    * ``async with to_asyncio.open_channel_from():`` which spawns a task
+      and hands it a pair of "memory channels" to allow for bi-directional
+      streaming between the now SC-linked ``trio`` and ``asyncio`` tasks.
+
+  The output from any call(s) to ``asyncio`` can be handled as normal in
+  ``trio``/``tractor`` task operation with the caveat of the overhead due
+  to guest-mode use.
+
+  For more details see the `original PR
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/121>`_ and `issue
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/120>`_.
+
+- `#257 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/257>`_: Add
+  ``trionics.maybe_open_context()`` an actor-scoped async multi-task
+  context manager resource caching API.
+
+  Adds an SC-safe cacheing async context manager api that only enters on
+  the *first* task entry and only exits on the *last* task exit while in
+  between delivering the same cached value per input key. Keys can be
+  either an explicit ``key`` named arg provided by the user or a
+  hashable ``kwargs`` dict (will be converted to a ``list[tuple]``) which
+  is passed to the underlying manager function as input.
+
+- `#261 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/261>`_: Add
+  cross-actor-task ``Context`` oriented error relay, a new stream
+  overrun error-signal ``StreamOverrun``, and support disabling
+  ``MsgStream`` backpressure as the default before a stream is opened or
+  by choice of the user.
+
+  We added stricter semantics around ``tractor.Context.open_stream():``
+  particularly to do with streams which are only opened at one end.
+  Previously, if only one end opened a stream there was no way for that
+  sender to know if msgs are being received until first, the feeder mem
+  chan on the receiver side hit a backpressure state and then that
+  condition delayed its msg loop processing task to eventually create
+  backpressure on the associated IPC transport. This is non-ideal in the
+  case where the receiver side never opened a stream by mistake since it
+  results in silent block of the sender and no adherence to the underlying
+  mem chan buffer size settings (which is still unsolved btw).
+
+  To solve this we add non-backpressure style message pushing inside
+  ``Actor._push_result()`` by default and only use the backpressure
+  ``trio.MemorySendChannel.send()`` call **iff** the local end of the
+  context has entered ``Context.open_stream():``. This way if the stream
+  was never opened but the mem chan is overrun, we relay back to the
+  sender a (new exception) ``SteamOverrun`` error which is raised in the
+  sender's scope with a special error message about the stream never
+  having been opened. Further, this behaviour (non-backpressure style
+  where senders can expect an error on overruns) can now be enabled with
+  ``.open_stream(backpressure=False)`` and the underlying mem chan size
+  can be specified with a kwarg ``msg_buffer_size: int``.
+
+  Further bug fixes and enhancements in this changeset include:
+
+  - fix a race we were ignoring where if the callee task opened a context
+    it could enter ``Context.open_stream()`` before calling
+    ``.started()``.
+  - Disallow calling ``Context.started()`` more then once.
+  - Enable ``Context`` linked tasks error relaying via the new
+    ``Context._maybe_raise_from_remote_msg()`` which (for now) uses
+    a simple ``trio.Nursery.start_soon()`` to raise the error via closure
+    in the local scope.
+
+- `#267 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/267>`_: This
+  (finally) adds fully acknowledged remote cancellation messaging
+  support for both explicit ``Portal.cancel_actor()`` calls as well as
+  when there is a "runtime-wide" cancellations (eg. during KBI or
+  general actor nursery exception handling which causes a full actor
+  "crash"/termination).
+
+  You can think of this as the most ideal case in 2-generals where the
+  actor requesting the cancel of its child is able to always receive back
+  the ACK to that request. This leads to a more deterministic shutdown of
+  the child where the parent is able to wait for the child to fully
+  respond to the request. On a localhost setup, where the parent can
+  monitor the state of the child through process or other OS APIs instead
+  of solely through IPC messaging, the parent can know whether or not the
+  child decided to cancel with more certainty. In the case of separate
+  hosts, we still rely on a simple timeout approach until such a time
+  where we prefer to get "fancier".
+
+- `#271 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/271>`_: Add a per
+  actor ``debug_mode: bool`` control to our nursery.
+
+  This allows spawning actors via ``ActorNursery.start_actor()`` (and
+  other dependent methods) with a ``debug_mode=True`` flag much like
+  ``tractor.open_nursery():`` such that per process crash handling
+  can be toggled for cases where a user does not need/want all child actors
+  to drop into the debugger on error. This is often useful when you have
+  actor-tasks which are expected to error often (and be re-run) but want
+  to specifically interact with some (problematic) child.
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- `#239 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/239>`_: Fix
+  keyboard interrupt handling in ``Portal.open_context()`` blocks.
+
+  Previously this was not triggering cancellation of the remote task
+  context and could result in hangs if a stream was also opened. This
+  fix is to accept `BaseException` since it is likely any other top
+  level exception other then KBI (even though not expected) should also
+  get this result.
+
+- `#264 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/264>`_: Fix
+  ``Portal.run_in_actor()`` returns ``None`` result.
+
+  ``None`` was being used as the cached result flag and obviously breaks
+  on a ``None`` returned from the remote target task. This would cause an
+  infinite hang if user code ever called ``Portal.result()`` *before* the
+  nursery exit. The simple fix is to use the *return message* as the
+  initial "no-result-received-yet" flag value and, once received, the
+  return value is read from the message to avoid the cache logic error.
+
+- `#266 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/266>`_: Fix
+  graceful cancellation of daemon actors
+
+  Previously, his was a bug where if the soft wait on a sub-process (the
+  ``await .proc.wait()``) in the reaper task teardown was cancelled we
+  would fail over to the hard reaping sequence (meant for culling off any
+  potential zombies via system kill signals). The hard reap has a timeout
+  of 3s (currently though in theory we could make it shorter?) before
+  system signalling kicks in. This means that any daemon actor still
+  running during nursery exit would get hard reaped (3s later) instead of
+  cancelled via IPC message. Now we catch the ``trio.Cancelled``, call
+  ``Portal.cancel_actor()`` on the daemon and expect the child to
+  self-terminate after the runtime cancels and shuts down the process.
+
+- `#278 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/278>`_: Repair
+  inter-actor stream closure semantics to work correctly with
+  ``tractor.trionics.BroadcastReceiver`` task fan out usage.
+
+  A set of previously unknown bugs discovered in `#257
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/257>`_ let graceful stream
+  closure result in hanging consumer tasks that use the broadcast APIs.
+  This adds better internal closure state tracking to the broadcast
+  receiver and message stream APIs and in particular ensures that when an
+  underlying stream/receive-channel (a broadcast receiver is receiving
+  from) is closed, all consumer tasks waiting on that underlying channel
+  are woken so they can receive the ``trio.EndOfChannel`` signal and
+  promptly terminate.
+
+
+tractor 0.1.0a3 (2021-11-02)
+============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Switch to using the ``trio`` process spawner by default on windows. (#166)
+
+  This gets windows users debugger support (manually tested) and in
+  general a more resilient (nested) actor tree implementation.
+
+- Add optional `msgspec <https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/>`_ support
+  as an alernative, faster MessagePack codec. (#214)
+
+  Provides us with a path toward supporting typed IPC message contracts. Further,
+  ``msgspec`` structs may be a valid tool to start for formalizing our
+  "SC dialog un-protocol" messages as described in `#36
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/36>`_.
+
+- Introduce a new ``tractor.trionics`` `sub-package`_ that exposes
+  a selection of our relevant high(er) level trio primitives and
+  goodies. (#241)
+
+  At outset we offer a ``gather_contexts()`` context manager for
+  concurrently entering a sequence of async context managers (much like
+  a version of ``asyncio.gather()`` but for context managers) and use it
+  in a new ``tractor.open_actor_cluster()`` manager-helper that can be
+  entered to concurrently spawn a flat actor pool. We also now publicly
+  expose our "broadcast channel" APIs (``open_broadcast_receiver()``)
+  from here.
+
+.. _sub-package: ../tractor/trionics
+
+- Change the core message loop to handle task and actor-runtime cancel
+  requests immediately instead of scheduling them as is done for rpc-task
+  requests. (#245)
+
+  In order to obtain more reliable teardown mechanics for (complex) actor
+  trees it's important that we specially treat cancel requests as having
+  higher priority. Previously, it was possible that task cancel requests
+  could actually also themselves be cancelled if a "actor-runtime" cancel
+  request was received (can happen during messy multi actor crashes that
+  propagate). Instead cancels now block the msg loop until serviced and
+  a response is relayed back to the requester. This also allows for
+  improved debugger support since we have determinism guarantees about
+  which processes must wait before hard killing their children.
+
+- (`#248 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/248>`_) Drop Python
+  3.8 support in favour of rolling with two latest releases for the time
+  being.
+
+
+Misc
+----
+
+- (`#243 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/243>`_) add a distinct
+  ``'CANCEL'`` log level to allow the runtime to emit details about
+  cancellation machinery statuses.
+
+
+tractor 0.1.0a2 (2021-09-07)
+============================
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Add `tokio-style broadcast channels
+  <https://docs.rs/tokio/1.11.0/tokio/sync/broadcast/index.html>`_ as
+  a solution for `#204 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/204>`_ and
+  discussed thoroughly in `trio/#987
+  <https://github.com/python-trio/trio/issues/987>`_.
+
+  This gives us local task broadcast functionality using a new
+  ``BroadcastReceiver`` type which can wrap ``trio.ReceiveChannel``  and
+  provide fan-out copies of a stream of data to every subscribed consumer.
+  We use this new machinery to provide a ``ReceiveMsgStream.subscribe()``
+  async context manager which can be used by actor-local concumers tasks
+  to easily pull from a shared and dynamic IPC stream. (`#229
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/229>`_)
+
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Handle broken channel/stream faults where the root's tty lock is left
+  acquired by some child actor who went MIA and the root ends up hanging
+  indefinitely. (`#234 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/234>`_)
+
+  There's two parts here: we no longer shield wait on the lock and,
+  now always do our best to release the lock on the expected worst
+  case connection faults.
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Drop stream "shielding" support which was originally added to sidestep
+  a cancelled call to ``.receive()``
+
+  In the original api design a stream instance was returned directly from
+  a call to ``Portal.run()`` and thus there was no "exit phase" to handle
+  cancellations and errors which would trigger implicit closure. Now that
+  we have said enter/exit semantics with ``Portal.open_stream_from()`` and
+  ``Context.open_stream()`` we can drop this implicit (and arguably
+  confusing) behavior. (`#230 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/230>`_)
+
+- Drop Python 3.7 support in preparation for supporting 3.9+ syntax.
+  (`#232 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/232>`_)
+
+
+tractor 0.1.0a1 (2021-08-01)
+============================
+
+Features
+--------
+- Updated our uni-directional streaming API (`#206
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/206>`_) to require a context
+  manager style ``async with Portal.open_stream_from(target) as stream:``
+  which explicitly determines when to stop a stream in the calling (aka
+  portal opening) actor much like ``async_generator.aclosing()``
+  enforcement.
+
+- Improved the ``multiprocessing`` backend sub-actor reaping (`#208
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/208>`_) during actor nursery
+  exit, particularly during cancellation scenarios that previously might
+  result in hard to debug hangs.
+
+- Added initial bi-directional streaming support in `#219
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/219>`_ with follow up debugger
+  improvements via `#220 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/220>`_
+  using the new ``tractor.Context`` cross-actor task syncing system.
+  The debugger upgrades add an edge triggered last-in-tty-lock semaphore
+  which allows the root process for a tree to avoid clobbering children
+  who have queued to acquire the ``pdb`` repl by waiting to cancel
+  sub-actors until the lock is known to be released **and** has no
+  pending waiters.
+
+
+Experiments and WIPs
+--------------------
+- Initial optional ``msgspec`` serialization support in `#214
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/214>`_ which should hopefully
+  land by next release.
+
+- Improved "infect ``asyncio``" cross-loop task cancellation and error
+  propagation by vastly simplifying the cross-loop-task streaming approach. 
+  We may end up just going with a use of ``anyio`` in the medium term to
+  avoid re-doing work done by their cross-event-loop portals.  See the
+  ``infect_asyncio`` for details.
+
+
+Improved Documentation
+----------------------
+- `Updated our readme <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/211>`_ to
+  include more (and better) `examples
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor#run-a-func-in-a-process>`_ (with
+  matching multi-terminal process monitoring shell commands) as well as
+  added many more examples to the `repo set
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/tree/master/examples>`_.
+
+- Added a readme `"actors under the hood" section
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor#under-the-hood>`_ in an effort to
+  guard against suggestions for changing the API away from ``trio``'s
+  *tasks-as-functions* style.
+
+- Moved to using the `sphinx book theme
+  <https://sphinx-book-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>`_
+  though it needs some heavy tweaking and doesn't seem to show our logo
+  on rtd :(
+
+
+Trivial/Internal Changes
+------------------------
+- Added a new ``TransportClosed`` internal exception/signal (`#215
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/215>`_ for catching TCP
+  channel gentle closes instead of silently falling through the message
+  handler loop via an async generator ``return``.
+
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+- Dropped support for invoking sync functions (`#205
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/205>`_) in other
+  actors/processes since you can always wrap a sync function from an
+  async one.  Users can instead consider using ``trio-parallel`` which
+  is a project specifically geared for purely synchronous calls in
+  sub-processes.
+
+- Deprecated our ``tractor.run()`` entrypoint `#197
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/197>`_; the runtime is now
+  either started implicitly in first actor nursery use or via an
+  explicit call to ``tractor.open_root_actor()``. Full removal of
+  ``tractor.run()`` will come by beta release.
+
+
+tractor 0.1.0a0 (2021-02-28)
+============================
+
+..
+    TODO: fill out more of the details of the initial feature set in some TLDR form
+
+Summary
+-------
+- ``trio`` based process spawner (using ``subprocess``)
+- initial multi-process debugging with ``pdb++``
+- windows support using both ``trio`` and ``multiprocessing`` spawners
+- "portal" api for cross-process, structured concurrent, (streaming) IPC

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@@ -1,65 +1,632 @@
-tractor
-=======
-A `structured concurrent`_, async-native "`actor model`_" built on trio_ and multiprocessing_.
+|logo| ``tractor``: next-gen Python parallelism
 
 |gh_actions|
 |docs|
 
-.. _actor model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
-.. _trio: https://github.com/python-trio/trio
-.. _multiprocessing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing
-.. _trionic: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design.html#high-level-design-principles
-.. _async sandwich: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#async-sandwich
-.. _structured concurrent: https://trio.discourse.group/t/concise-definition-of-structured-concurrency/228
+``tractor`` is a `structured concurrent`_, multi-processing_ runtime
+built on trio_.
 
+Fundamentally, ``tractor`` gives you parallelism via
+``trio``-"*actors*": independent Python processes (aka
+non-shared-memory threads) which maintain structured
+concurrency (SC) *end-to-end* inside a *supervision tree*.
 
-``tractor`` is an attempt to bring trionic_ `structured concurrency`_ to
-distributed multi-core Python; it aims to be the Python multi-processing
-framework *you always wanted*.
+Cross-process (and thus cross-host) SC is accomplished through the
+combined use of our "actor nurseries_" and an "SC-transitive IPC
+protocol" constructed on top of multiple Pythons each running a ``trio``
+scheduled runtime - a call to ``trio.run()``.
 
-``tractor`` lets you spawn ``trio`` *"actors"*: processes which each run
-a ``trio`` scheduled task tree (also known as an `async sandwich`_).
-*Actors* communicate by exchanging asynchronous messages_ and avoid
-sharing any state. This model allows for highly distributed software
-architecture which works just as well on multiple cores as it does over
-many hosts.
+We believe the system adheres to the `3 axioms`_ of an "`actor model`_"
+but likely *does not* look like what *you* probably think an "actor
+model" looks like, and that's *intentional*.
 
 The first step to grok ``tractor`` is to get the basics of ``trio`` down.
 A great place to start is the `trio docs`_ and this `blog post`_.
 
-.. _messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing
-.. _trio docs: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
-.. _blog post: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
-.. _structured concurrency: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
-.. _3 axioms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Fundamental_concepts
-.. _unrequirements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Direct_communication_and_asynchrony
-.. _async generators: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0525/
+
+Features
+--------
+- **It's just** a ``trio`` API
+- *Infinitely nesteable* process trees
+- Builtin IPC streaming APIs with task fan-out broadcasting
+- A "native" multi-core debugger REPL using `pdbp`_ (a fork & fix of
+  `pdb++`_ thanks to @mdmintz!)
+- Support for a swappable, OS specific, process spawning layer
+- A modular transport stack, allowing for custom serialization (eg. with
+  `msgspec`_), communications protocols, and environment specific IPC
+  primitives
+- Support for spawning process-level-SC, inter-loop one-to-one-task oriented
+  ``asyncio`` actors via "infected ``asyncio``" mode
+- `structured chadcurrency`_ from the ground up
+
+
+Run a func in a process
+-----------------------
+Use ``trio``'s style of focussing on *tasks as functions*:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    """
+    Run with a process monitor from a terminal using::
+
+        $TERM -e watch -n 0.1  "pstree -a $$" \
+            & python examples/parallelism/single_func.py \
+            && kill $!
+
+    """
+    import os
+
+    import tractor
+    import trio
+
+
+    async def burn_cpu():
+
+        pid = os.getpid()
+
+        # burn a core @ ~ 50kHz
+        for _ in range(50000):
+            await trio.sleep(1/50000/50)
+
+        return os.getpid()
+
+
+    async def main():
+
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+            portal = await n.run_in_actor(burn_cpu)
+
+            #  burn rubber in the parent too
+            await burn_cpu()
+
+            # wait on result from target function
+            pid = await portal.result()
+
+        # end of nursery block
+        print(f"Collected subproc {pid}")
+
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+This runs ``burn_cpu()`` in a new process and reaps it on completion
+of the nursery block.
+
+If you only need to run a sync function and retreive a single result, you
+might want to check out `trio-parallel`_.
+
+
+Zombie safe: self-destruct a process tree
+-----------------------------------------
+``tractor`` tries to protect you from zombies, no matter what.
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    """
+    Run with a process monitor from a terminal using::
+
+        $TERM -e watch -n 0.1  "pstree -a $$" \
+            & python examples/parallelism/we_are_processes.py \
+            && kill $!
+
+    """
+    from multiprocessing import cpu_count
+    import os
+
+    import tractor
+    import trio
+
+
+    async def target():
+        print(
+            f"Yo, i'm '{tractor.current_actor().name}' "
+            f"running in pid {os.getpid()}"
+        )
+
+        await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+    async def main():
+
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+            for i in range(cpu_count()):
+                await n.run_in_actor(target, name=f'worker_{i}')
+
+            print('This process tree will self-destruct in 1 sec...')
+            await trio.sleep(1)
+
+            # raise an error in root actor/process and trigger
+            # reaping of all minions
+            raise Exception('Self Destructed')
+
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        try:
+            trio.run(main)
+        except Exception:
+            print('Zombies Contained')
+
+
+If you can create zombie child processes (without using a system signal)
+it **is a bug**.
+
+
+"Native" multi-process debugging
+--------------------------------
+Using the magic of `pdbp`_ and our internal IPC, we've
+been able to create a native feeling debugging experience for
+any (sub-)process in your ``tractor`` tree.
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from os import getpid
+
+    import tractor
+    import trio
+
+
+    async def breakpoint_forever():
+        "Indefinitely re-enter debugger in child actor."
+        while True:
+            yield 'yo'
+            await tractor.breakpoint()
+
+
+    async def name_error():
+        "Raise a ``NameError``"
+        getattr(doggypants)
+
+
+    async def main():
+        """Test breakpoint in a streaming actor.
+        """
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            debug_mode=True,
+            loglevel='error',
+        ) as n:
+
+            p0 = await n.start_actor('bp_forever', enable_modules=[__name__])
+            p1 = await n.start_actor('name_error', enable_modules=[__name__])
+
+            # retreive results
+            stream = await p0.run(breakpoint_forever)
+            await p1.run(name_error)
+
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+You can run this with::
+
+    >>> python examples/debugging/multi_daemon_subactors.py
+
+And, yes, there's a built-in crash handling mode B)
+
+We're hoping to add a respawn-from-repl system soon!
+
+
+SC compatible bi-directional streaming
+--------------------------------------
+Yes, you saw it here first; we provide 2-way streams
+with reliable, transitive setup/teardown semantics.
+
+Our nascent api is remniscent of ``trio.Nursery.start()``
+style invocation:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    import trio
+    import tractor
+
+
+    @tractor.context
+    async def simple_rpc(
+
+        ctx: tractor.Context,
+        data: int,
+
+    ) -> None:
+        '''Test a small ping-pong 2-way streaming server.
+
+        '''
+        # signal to parent that we're up much like
+        # ``trio_typing.TaskStatus.started()``
+        await ctx.started(data + 1)
+
+        async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+            count = 0
+            async for msg in stream:
+
+                assert msg == 'ping'
+                await stream.send('pong')
+                count += 1
+
+            else:
+                assert count == 10
+
+
+    async def main() -> None:
+
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
+                'rpc_server',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+
+            # XXX: this syntax requires py3.9
+            async with (
+
+                portal.open_context(
+                    simple_rpc,
+                    data=10,
+                ) as (ctx, sent),
+
+                ctx.open_stream() as stream,
+            ):
+
+                assert sent == 11
+
+                count = 0
+                # receive msgs using async for style
+                await stream.send('ping')
+
+                async for msg in stream:
+                    assert msg == 'pong'
+                    await stream.send('ping')
+                    count += 1
+
+                    if count >= 9:
+                        break
+
+
+            # explicitly teardown the daemon-actor
+            await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+See original proposal and discussion in `#53`_ as well
+as follow up improvements in `#223`_ that we'd love to
+hear your thoughts on!
+
+.. _#53: https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/53
+.. _#223: https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/223
+
+
+Worker poolz are easy peasy
+---------------------------
+The initial ask from most new users is *"how do I make a worker
+pool thing?"*.
+
+``tractor`` is built to handle any SC (structured concurrent) process
+tree you can imagine; a "worker pool" pattern is a trivial special
+case.
+
+We have a `full worker pool re-implementation`_ of the std-lib's
+``concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor`` example for reference.
+
+You can run it like so (from this dir) to see the process tree in
+real time::
+
+    $TERM -e watch -n 0.1  "pstree -a $$" \
+        & python examples/parallelism/concurrent_actors_primes.py \
+        && kill $!
+
+This uses no extra threads, fancy semaphores or futures; all we need
+is ``tractor``'s IPC!
+
+"Infected ``asyncio``" mode
+---------------------------
+Have a bunch of ``asyncio`` code you want to force to be SC at the process level?
+
+Check out our experimental system for `guest-mode`_ controlled
+``asyncio`` actors:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    import asyncio
+    from statistics import mean
+    import time
+
+    import trio
+    import tractor
+
+
+    async def aio_echo_server(
+        to_trio: trio.MemorySendChannel,
+        from_trio: asyncio.Queue,
+    ) -> None:
+
+        # a first message must be sent **from** this ``asyncio``
+        # task or the ``trio`` side will never unblock from
+        # ``tractor.to_asyncio.open_channel_from():``
+        to_trio.send_nowait('start')
+
+        # XXX: this uses an ``from_trio: asyncio.Queue`` currently but we
+        # should probably offer something better.
+        while True:
+            # echo the msg back
+            to_trio.send_nowait(await from_trio.get())
+            await asyncio.sleep(0)
+
+
+    @tractor.context
+    async def trio_to_aio_echo_server(
+        ctx: tractor.Context,
+    ):
+        # this will block until the ``asyncio`` task sends a "first"
+        # message.
+        async with tractor.to_asyncio.open_channel_from(
+            aio_echo_server,
+        ) as (first, chan):
+
+            assert first == 'start'
+            await ctx.started(first)
+
+            async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                async for msg in stream:
+                    await chan.send(msg)
+
+                    out = await chan.receive()
+                    # echo back to parent actor-task
+                    await stream.send(out)
+
+
+    async def main():
+
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            p = await n.start_actor(
+                'aio_server',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+            async with p.open_context(
+                trio_to_aio_echo_server,
+            ) as (ctx, first):
+
+                assert first == 'start'
+
+                count = 0
+                async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                    delays = []
+                    send = time.time()
+
+                    await stream.send(count)
+                    async for msg in stream:
+                        recv = time.time()
+                        delays.append(recv - send)
+                        assert msg == count
+                        count += 1
+                        send = time.time()
+                        await stream.send(count)
+
+                        if count >= 1e3:
+                            break
+
+            print(f'mean round trip rate (Hz): {1/mean(delays)}')
+            await p.cancel_actor()
+
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+Yes, we spawn a python process, run ``asyncio``, start ``trio`` on the
+``asyncio`` loop, then send commands to the ``trio`` scheduled tasks to
+tell ``asyncio`` tasks what to do XD
+
+We need help refining the `asyncio`-side channel API to be more
+`trio`-like. Feel free to sling your opinion in `#273`_!
+
+
+.. _#273: https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/273
+
+
+Higher level "cluster" APIs
+---------------------------
+To be extra terse the ``tractor`` devs have started hacking some "higher
+level" APIs for managing actor trees/clusters. These interfaces should
+generally be condsidered provisional for now but we encourage you to try
+them and provide feedback. Here's a new API that let's you quickly
+spawn a flat cluster:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    import trio
+    import tractor
+
+
+    async def sleepy_jane():
+        uid = tractor.current_actor().uid
+        print(f'Yo i am actor {uid}')
+        await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+    async def main():
+        '''
+        Spawn a flat actor cluster, with one process per
+        detected core.
+
+        '''
+        portal_map: dict[str, tractor.Portal]
+        results: dict[str, str]
+
+        # look at this hip new syntax!
+        async with (
+
+            tractor.open_actor_cluster(
+                modules=[__name__]
+            ) as portal_map,
+
+            trio.open_nursery() as n,
+        ):
+
+            for (name, portal) in portal_map.items():
+                n.start_soon(portal.run, sleepy_jane)
+
+            await trio.sleep(0.5)
+
+            # kill the cluster with a cancel
+            raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+
+    if __name__ == '__main__':
+        try:
+            trio.run(main)
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            pass
+
+
+.. _full worker pool re-implementation: https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/blob/master/examples/parallelism/concurrent_actors_primes.py
 
 
 Install
 -------
-No PyPi release yet!
+From PyPi::
 
-::
+    pip install tractor
+
+
+From git::
 
     pip install git+git://github.com/goodboy/tractor.git
 
 
+Under the hood
+--------------
+``tractor`` is an attempt to pair trionic_ `structured concurrency`_ with
+distributed Python. You can think of it as a ``trio``
+*-across-processes* or simply as an opinionated replacement for the
+stdlib's ``multiprocessing`` but built on async programming primitives
+from the ground up.
+
+Don't be scared off by this description. ``tractor`` **is just** ``trio``
+but with nurseries for process management and cancel-able streaming IPC.
+If you understand how to work with ``trio``, ``tractor`` will give you
+the parallelism you may have been needing.
+
+
+Wait, huh?! I thought "actors" have messages, and mailboxes and stuff?!
+***********************************************************************
+Let's stop and ask how many canon actor model papers have you actually read ;)
+
+From our experience many "actor systems" aren't really "actor models"
+since they **don't adhere** to the `3 axioms`_ and pay even less
+attention to the problem of *unbounded non-determinism* (which was the
+whole point for creation of the model in the first place).
+
+From the author's mouth, **the only thing required** is `adherance to`_
+the `3 axioms`_, *and that's it*.
+
+``tractor`` adheres to said base requirements of an "actor model"::
+
+    In response to a message, an actor may:
+
+    - send a finite number of new messages
+    - create a finite number of new actors
+    - designate a new behavior to process subsequent messages
+
+
+**and** requires *no further api changes* to accomplish this.
+
+If you want do debate this further please feel free to chime in on our
+chat or discuss on one of the following issues *after you've read
+everything in them*:
+
+- https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/210
+- https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/18
+
+
+Let's clarify our parlance
+**************************
+Whether or not ``tractor`` has "actors" underneath should be mostly
+irrelevant to users other then for referring to the interactions of our
+primary runtime primitives: each Python process + ``trio.run()``
++ surrounding IPC machinery. These are our high level, base
+*runtime-units-of-abstraction* which both *are* (as much as they can
+be in Python) and will be referred to as our *"actors"*.
+
+The main goal of ``tractor`` is is to allow for highly distributed
+software that, through the adherence to *structured concurrency*,
+results in systems which fail in predictable, recoverable and maybe even
+understandable ways; being an "actor model" is just one way to describe
+properties of the system.
+
+
+What's on the TODO:
+-------------------
+Help us push toward the future of distributed `Python`.
+
+- Erlang-style supervisors via composed context managers (see `#22
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/22>`_)
+- Typed messaging protocols (ex. via ``msgspec.Struct``, see `#36
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/36>`_)
+- Typed capability-based (dialog) protocols ( see `#196
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/196>`_ with draft work
+  started in `#311 <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/311>`_)
+- We **recently disabled CI-testing on windows** and need help getting
+  it running again! (see `#327
+  <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/327>`_). **We do have windows
+  support** (and have for quite a while) but since no active hacker
+  exists in the user-base to help test on that OS, for now we're not
+  actively maintaining testing due to the added hassle and general
+  latency..
+
+
 Feel like saying hi?
 --------------------
 This project is very much coupled to the ongoing development of
 ``trio`` (i.e. ``tractor`` gets most of its ideas from that brilliant
 community). If you want to help, have suggestions or just want to
-say hi, please feel free to reach us on in our `matrix channel`_.  If
+say hi, please feel free to reach us in our `matrix channel`_.  If
 matrix seems too hip, we're also mostly all in the the `trio gitter
 channel`_!
 
+.. _structured concurrent: https://trio.discourse.group/t/concise-definition-of-structured-concurrency/228
+.. _multi-processing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing
+.. _trio: https://github.com/python-trio/trio
+.. _nurseries: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/#nurseries-a-structured-replacement-for-go-statements
+.. _actor model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
+.. _trionic: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design.html#high-level-design-principles
+.. _async sandwich: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#async-sandwich
+.. _3 axioms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo&t=162s
+.. .. _3 axioms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Fundamental_concepts
+.. _adherance to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo&t=1821s
 .. _trio gitter channel: https://gitter.im/python-trio/general
 .. _matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/!tractor:matrix.org
+.. _pdbp: https://github.com/mdmintz/pdbp
+.. _pdb++: https://github.com/pdbpp/pdbpp
+.. _guest mode: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference-lowlevel.html?highlight=guest%20mode#using-guest-mode-to-run-trio-on-top-of-other-event-loops
+.. _messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing
+.. _trio docs: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+.. _blog post: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
+.. _structured concurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_concurrency
+.. _structured chadcurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_concurrency
+.. _structured concurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_concurrency
+.. _unrequirements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Direct_communication_and_asynchrony
+.. _async generators: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0525/
+.. _trio-parallel: https://github.com/richardsheridan/trio-parallel
+.. _msgspec: https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/
+.. _guest-mode: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference-lowlevel.html?highlight=guest%20mode#using-guest-mode-to-run-trio-on-top-of-other-event-loops
 
 
 .. |gh_actions| image:: https://img.shields.io/endpoint.svg?url=https%3A%2F%2Factions-badge.atrox.dev%2Fgoodboy%2Ftractor%2Fbadge&style=popout-square
     :target: https://actions-badge.atrox.dev/goodboy/tractor/goto
+
 .. |docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/tractor/badge/?version=latest
     :target: https://tractor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
     :alt: Documentation Status
+
+.. |logo| image:: _static/tractor_logo_side.svg
+    :width: 250
+    :align: middle

docs/conf.py

@@ -54,28 +54,44 @@ exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store']
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
 # a list of builtin themes.
 #
-html_theme = 'sphinx_typlog_theme'
+html_theme = 'sphinx_book_theme'
 
-pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+pygments_style = 'algol_nu'
 
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
 # documentation.
 html_theme_options = {
-    'logo': 'tractor_logo_side.svg',
-    'description': 'Structured concurrent "actors"',
-    'github_user': 'goodboy',
-    'github_repo': 'tractor',
+    # 'logo': 'tractor_logo_side.svg',
+    # 'description': 'Structured concurrent "actors"',
+    "repository_url": "https://github.com/goodboy/tractor",
+    "use_repository_button": True,
+    "home_page_in_toc": False,
+    "show_toc_level": 1,
+    "path_to_docs": "docs",
+
 }
 html_sidebars = {
     "**": [
-        'logo.html',
-        'github.html',
-        'relations.html',
-        'searchbox.html'
-    ]
+        "sbt-sidebar-nav.html",
+        # "sidebar-search-bs.html",
+        # 'localtoc.html',
+    ],
+    #     'logo.html',
+    #     'github.html',
+    #     'relations.html',
+    #     'searchbox.html'
+    # ]
 }
 
+# doesn't seem to work?
+# extra_navbar = "<p>nextttt-gennnnn</p>"
+
+html_title = ''
+html_logo = '_static/tractor_logo_side.svg'
+html_favicon = '_static/tractor_logo_side.svg'
+# show_navbar_depth = 1
+
 # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
 # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
 # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".

docs/dev_tips.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+Hot tips for ``tractor`` hackers
+================================
+
+This is a WIP guide for newcomers to the project mostly to do with
+dev, testing, CI and release gotchas, reminders and best practises.
+
+``tractor`` is a fairly novel project compared to most since it is
+effectively a new way of doing distributed computing in Python and is
+much closer to working with an "application level runtime" (like erlang
+OTP or scala's akka project) then it is a traditional Python library.
+As such, having an arsenal of tools and recipes for figuring out the
+right way to debug problems when they do arise is somewhat of
+a necessity.
+
+
+Making a Release
+----------------
+We currently do nothing special here except the traditional
+PyPa release recipe as in `documented by twine`_. I personally
+create sub-dirs within the generated `dist/` with an explicit
+release name such as `alpha3/` when there's been a sequence of
+releases I've made, but it really is up to you how you like to
+organize generated sdists locally.
+
+The resulting build cmds are approximately:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+    python setup.py sdist -d ./dist/XXX.X/
+
+    twine upload -r testpypi dist/XXX.X/*
+
+    twine upload dist/XXX.X/*
+
+
+
+.. _documented by twine: https://twine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#using-twine
+
+
+Debugging and monitoring actor trees
+------------------------------------
+TODO: but there are tips in the readme for some terminal commands
+which can be used to see the process trees easily on Linux.
+
+
+Using the log system to trace `trio` task flow
+----------------------------------------------
+TODO: the logging system is meant to be oriented around
+stack "layers" of the runtime such that you can track
+"logical abstraction layers" in the code such as errors, cancellation,
+IPC and streaming, and the low level transport and wire protocols.

docs/github_readme/_sphinx_readme.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+tractor
+=======
+The Python async-native multi-core system *you always wanted*.
+
+
+|gh_actions|
+|docs|
+
+.. _actor model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
+.. _trio: https://github.com/python-trio/trio
+.. _multi-processing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing
+.. _trionic: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design.html#high-level-design-principles
+.. _async sandwich: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#async-sandwich
+.. _structured concurrent: https://trio.discourse.group/t/concise-definition-of-structured-concurrency/228
+
+
+``tractor`` is a `structured concurrent`_ "`actor model`_" built on trio_ and multi-processing_.
+
+It is an attempt to pair trionic_ `structured concurrency`_ with
+distributed Python. You can think of it as a ``trio``
+*-across-processes* or simply as an opinionated replacement for the
+stdlib's ``multiprocessing`` but built on async programming primitives
+from the ground up.
+
+Don't be scared off by this description. ``tractor`` **is just ``trio``**
+but with nurseries for process management and cancel-able IPC.
+If you understand how to work with ``trio``, ``tractor`` will give you
+the parallelism you've been missing.
+
+``tractor``'s nurseries let you spawn ``trio`` *"actors"*: new Python
+processes which each run a ``trio`` scheduled task tree (also known as
+an `async sandwich`_ - a call to ``trio.run()``). That is, each
+"*Actor*" is a new process plus a ``trio`` runtime.
+
+"Actors" communicate by exchanging asynchronous messages_ and avoid
+sharing state. The intention of this model is to allow for highly
+distributed software that, through the adherence to *structured
+concurrency*, results in systems which fail in predictable and
+recoverable ways.
+
+The first step to grok ``tractor`` is to get the basics of ``trio`` down.
+A great place to start is the `trio docs`_ and this `blog post`_.
+
+.. _messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing
+.. _trio docs: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+.. _blog post: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
+.. _structured concurrency: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
+.. _3 axioms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Fundamental_concepts
+.. _unrequirements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Direct_communication_and_asynchrony
+.. _async generators: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0525/
+
+
+Install
+-------
+No PyPi release yet!
+
+::
+
+    pip install git+git://github.com/goodboy/tractor.git
+
+
+Alluring Features
+-----------------
+- **It's just** ``trio``, but with SC applied to processes (aka "actors")
+- Infinitely nesteable process trees
+- Built-in API for inter-process streaming
+- A (first ever?) "native" multi-core debugger for Python using `pdb++`_
+- (Soon to land) ``asyncio`` support allowing for "infected" actors where
+  `trio` drives the `asyncio` scheduler via the astounding "`guest mode`_"
+
+
+Example: self-destruct a process tree
+-------------------------------------
+.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/parallelism/we_are_processes.py
+    :language: python
+
+
+The example you're probably after...
+------------------------------------
+It seems the initial query from most new users is "how do I make a worker
+pool thing?".
+
+``tractor`` is built to handle any SC process tree you can
+imagine; the "worker pool" pattern is a trivial special case:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/parallelism/concurrent_actors_primes.py
+    :language: python
+
+
+Feel like saying hi?
+--------------------
+This project is very much coupled to the ongoing development of
+``trio`` (i.e. ``tractor`` gets most of its ideas from that brilliant
+community). If you want to help, have suggestions or just want to
+say hi, please feel free to reach us in our `matrix channel`_.  If
+matrix seems too hip, we're also mostly all in the the `trio gitter
+channel`_!
+
+.. _trio gitter channel: https://gitter.im/python-trio/general
+.. _matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/!tractor:matrix.org
+.. _pdb++: https://github.com/pdbpp/pdbpp
+.. _guest mode: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference-lowlevel.html?highlight=guest%20mode#using-guest-mode-to-run-trio-on-top-of-other-event-loops
+
+
+.. |gh_actions| image:: https://img.shields.io/endpoint.svg?url=https%3A%2F%2Factions-badge.atrox.dev%2Fgoodboy%2Ftractor%2Fbadge&style=popout-square
+    :target: https://actions-badge.atrox.dev/goodboy/tractor/goto
+.. |docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/tractor/badge/?version=latest
+    :target: https://tractor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
+    :alt: Documentation Status

docs/github_readme/conf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
+
+# this config is for the rst generation extension and thus
+# requires only basic settings:
+# https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/restbuilder
+
+# -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+# import os
+# import sys
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# Warn about all references to unknown targets
+nitpicky = True
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = '_sphinx_readme'
+
+# -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+
+project = 'tractor'
+copyright = '2018, Tyler Goodlet'
+author = 'Tyler Goodlet'
+
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
+release = '0.0.0a0.dev0'
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    'sphinx.ext.intersphinx',
+    'sphinx.ext.todo',
+    'sphinxcontrib.restbuilder',
+
+]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store']

docs/index.rst

@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@
    You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
    contain the root `toctree` directive.
 
-tractor
-=======
+``tractor``
+===========
+
 A `structured concurrent`_, async-native "`actor model`_" built on trio_ and multiprocessing_.
 
 .. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 2
+   :maxdepth: 1
    :caption: Contents:
 
 .. _actor model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
@@ -58,8 +59,6 @@ say hi, please feel free to ping me on the `trio gitter channel`_!
 .. _trio gitter channel: https://gitter.im/python-trio/general
 
 
-.. contents::
-
 
 Philosophy
 ----------
@@ -145,7 +144,7 @@ and use the ``run_in_actor()`` method:
 
 What's going on?
 
-- an initial *actor* is started with ``tractor.run()`` and told to execute
+- an initial *actor* is started with ``trio.run()`` and told to execute
   its main task_: ``main()``
 
 - inside ``main()`` an actor is *spawned* using an ``ActorNusery`` and is told
@@ -182,7 +181,7 @@ Here is a similar example using the latter method:
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../examples/actor_spawning_and_causality_with_daemon.py
 
-The ``rpc_module_paths`` `kwarg` above is a list of module path
+The ``enable_modules`` `kwarg` above is a list of module path
 strings that will be loaded and made accessible for execution in the
 remote actor through a call to ``Portal.run()``. For now this is
 a simple mechanism to restrict the functionality of the remote
@@ -397,7 +396,7 @@ tasks spawned via multiple RPC calls to an actor can modify
 
 
         # a per process cache
-        _actor_cache: Dict[str, bool] = {}
+        _actor_cache: dict[str, bool] = {}
 
 
         def ping_endpoints(endpoints: List[str]):
@@ -458,7 +457,7 @@ find an actor's socket address by name use the ``find_actor()`` function:
 .. literalinclude:: ../examples/service_discovery.py
 
 The ``name`` value you should pass to ``find_actor()`` is the one you passed as the
-*first* argument to either ``tractor.run()`` or ``ActorNursery.start_actor()``.
+*first* argument to either ``trio.run()`` or ``ActorNursery.start_actor()``.
 
 
 Running actors standalone
@@ -472,7 +471,17 @@ need to hop into a debugger. You just need to pass the existing
 
 .. code:: python
 
-    tractor.run(main, arbiter_addr=('192.168.0.10', 1616))
+    import trio
+    import tractor
+
+    async def main():
+
+        async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+            arbiter_addr=('192.168.0.10', 1616)
+        ):
+            await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+    trio.run(main)
 
 
 Choosing a process spawning backend
@@ -480,7 +489,7 @@ Choosing a process spawning backend
 ``tractor`` is architected to support multiple actor (sub-process)
 spawning backends. Specific defaults are chosen based on your system
 but you can also explicitly select a backend of choice at startup
-via a ``start_method`` kwarg to ``tractor.run()``.
+via a ``start_method`` kwarg to ``tractor.open_nursery()``.
 
 Currently the options available are:
 
@@ -536,13 +545,14 @@ main python module of the program:
 .. code:: python
 
     # application/__main__.py
+    import trio
     import tractor
     import multiprocessing
     from . import tractor_app
 
     if __name__ == '__main__':
         multiprocessing.freeze_support()
-        tractor.run(tractor_app.main)
+        trio.run(tractor_app.main)
 
 And execute as::
 

docs/mk_gh_readme.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+sphinx-build -b rst ./github_readme ./
+
+mv _sphinx_readme.rst _README.rst

examples/__main__.py

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     # temporary dir and name it test_example.py. We import that script
     # module here and invoke it's ``main()``.
     from . import test_example
-    test_example.tractor.run(test_example.main, start_method='spawn')
+    test_example.trio.run(test_example.main)

examples/a_trynamic_first_scene.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 _this_module = __name__
@@ -40,4 +41,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/actor_spawning_and_causality.py

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
-def cellar_door():
+async def cellar_door():
     assert not tractor.is_root_process()
     return "Dang that's beautiful"
 
@@ -23,4 +24,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/actor_spawning_and_causality_with_daemon.py

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
-def movie_theatre_question():
+async def movie_theatre_question():
     """A question asked in a dark theatre, in a tangent
     (errr, I mean different) process.
     """
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ async def main():
         portal = await n.start_actor(
             'frank',
             # enable the actor to run funcs from this current module
-            rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
         )
 
         print(await portal.run(movie_theatre_question))
@@ -30,4 +31,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/advanced_faults/ipc_failure_during_stream.py

@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+'''
+Complex edge case where during real-time streaming the IPC tranport
+channels are wiped out (purposely in this example though it could have
+been an outage) and we want to ensure that despite being in debug mode
+(or not) the user can sent SIGINT once they notice the hang and the
+actor tree will eventually be cancelled without leaving any zombies.
+
+'''
+import trio
+from tractor import (
+    open_nursery,
+    context,
+    Context,
+    MsgStream,
+)
+
+
+async def break_channel_silently_then_error(
+    stream: MsgStream,
+):
+    async for msg in stream:
+        await stream.send(msg)
+
+        # XXX: close the channel right after an error is raised
+        # purposely breaking the IPC transport to make sure the parent
+        # doesn't get stuck in debug or hang on the connection join.
+        # this more or less simulates an infinite msg-receive hang on
+        # the other end.
+        await stream._ctx.chan.send(None)
+        assert 0
+
+
+async def close_stream_and_error(
+    stream: MsgStream,
+):
+    async for msg in stream:
+        await stream.send(msg)
+
+        # wipe out channel right before raising
+        await stream._ctx.chan.send(None)
+        await stream.aclose()
+        assert 0
+
+
+@context
+async def recv_and_spawn_net_killers(
+
+    ctx: Context,
+    break_ipc_after: bool | int = False,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Receive stream msgs and spawn some IPC killers mid-stream.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+    async with (
+        ctx.open_stream() as stream,
+        trio.open_nursery() as n,
+    ):
+        async for i in stream:
+            print(f'child echoing {i}')
+            await stream.send(i)
+            if (
+                break_ipc_after
+                and i > break_ipc_after
+            ):
+                '#################################\n'
+                'Simulating child-side IPC BREAK!\n'
+                '#################################'
+                n.start_soon(break_channel_silently_then_error, stream)
+                n.start_soon(close_stream_and_error, stream)
+
+
+async def main(
+    debug_mode: bool = False,
+    start_method: str = 'trio',
+
+    # by default we break the parent IPC first (if configured to break
+    # at all), but this can be changed so the child does first (even if
+    # both are set to break).
+    break_parent_ipc_after: int | bool = False,
+    break_child_ipc_after: int | bool = False,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    async with (
+        open_nursery(
+            start_method=start_method,
+
+            # NOTE: even debugger is used we shouldn't get
+            # a hang since it never engages due to broken IPC
+            debug_mode=debug_mode,
+            loglevel='warning',
+
+        ) as an,
+    ):
+        portal = await an.start_actor(
+            'chitty_hijo',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+
+        async with portal.open_context(
+            recv_and_spawn_net_killers,
+            break_ipc_after=break_child_ipc_after,
+
+        ) as (ctx, sent):
+            async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+                for i in range(1000):
+
+                    if (
+                        break_parent_ipc_after
+                        and i > break_parent_ipc_after
+                    ):
+                        print(
+                            '#################################\n'
+                            'Simulating parent-side IPC BREAK!\n'
+                            '#################################'
+                        )
+                        await stream._ctx.chan.send(None)
+
+                    # it actually breaks right here in the
+                    # mp_spawn/forkserver backends and thus the zombie
+                    # reaper never even kicks in?
+                    print(f'parent sending {i}')
+                    await stream.send(i)
+
+                    with trio.move_on_after(2) as cs:
+
+                        # NOTE: in the parent side IPC failure case this
+                        # will raise an ``EndOfChannel`` after the child
+                        # is killed and sends a stop msg back to it's
+                        # caller/this-parent.
+                        rx = await stream.receive()
+
+                        print(f"I'm a happy user and echoed to me is {rx}")
+
+                    if cs.cancelled_caught:
+                        # pretend to be a user seeing no streaming action
+                        # thinking it's a hang, and then hitting ctl-c..
+                        print("YOO i'm a user anddd thingz hangin..")
+
+                print(
+                    "YOO i'm mad send side dun but thingz hangin..\n"
+                    'MASHING CTlR-C Ctl-c..'
+                )
+                raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/asynchronous_generators.py

@@ -1,36 +1,42 @@
+from typing import AsyncIterator
 from itertools import repeat
+
 import trio
 import tractor
 
-tractor.log.get_console_log("INFO")
 
+async def stream_forever() -> AsyncIterator[int]:
 
-async def stream_forever():
     for i in repeat("I can see these little future bubble things"):
-        # each yielded value is sent over the ``Channel`` to the
-        # parent actor
+        # each yielded value is sent over the ``Channel`` to the parent actor
         yield i
         await trio.sleep(0.01)
 
 
 async def main():
-    # stream for at most 1 seconds
-    with trio.move_on_after(1) as cancel_scope:
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
-            portal = await n.start_actor(
-                f'donny',
-                rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
-            )
 
-            # this async for loop streams values from the above
-            # async generator running in a separate process
-            async for letter in await portal.run(stream_forever):
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            'donny',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+
+        # this async for loop streams values from the above
+        # async generator running in a separate process
+        async with portal.open_stream_from(stream_forever) as stream:
+            count = 0
+            async for letter in stream:
                 print(letter)
+                count += 1
 
-    # we support trio's cancellation system
-    assert cancel_scope.cancelled_caught
-    assert n.cancelled
+                if count > 50:
+                    break
+
+        print('stream terminated')
+
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/fast_error_in_root_after_spawn.py

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+'''
+Fast fail test with a context.
+
+Ensure the partially initialized sub-actor process
+doesn't cause a hang on error/cancel of the parent
+nursery.
+
+'''
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def sleep(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+):
+    await trio.sleep(0.5)
+    await ctx.started()
+    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+async def open_ctx(
+    n: tractor._supervise.ActorNursery
+):
+
+    # spawn both actors
+    portal = await n.start_actor(
+        name='sleeper',
+        enable_modules=[__name__],
+    )
+
+    async with portal.open_context(
+        sleep,
+    ) as (ctx, first):
+        assert first is None
+
+
+async def main():
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+        loglevel='runtime',
+    ) as an:
+
+        async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+            n.start_soon(open_ctx, an)
+
+            await trio.sleep(0.2)
+            await trio.sleep(0.1)
+            assert 0
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/multi_daemon_subactors.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ async def breakpoint_forever():
 
 async def name_error():
     "Raise a ``NameError``"
-    getattr(doggypants)
+    getattr(doggypants)  # noqa
 
 
 async def main():
@@ -26,8 +26,19 @@ async def main():
         p1 = await n.start_actor('name_error', enable_modules=[__name__])
 
         # retreive results
-        stream = await p0.run(breakpoint_forever)
-        await p1.run(name_error)
+        async with p0.open_stream_from(breakpoint_forever) as stream:
+
+            # triggers the first name error
+            try:
+                await p1.run(name_error)
+            except tractor.RemoteActorError as rae:
+                assert rae.type is NameError
+
+            async for i in stream:
+
+                # a second time try the failing subactor and this tie
+                # let error propagate up to the parent/nursery.
+                await p1.run(name_error)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':

examples/debugging/multi_nested_subactors_error_up_through_nurseries.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import tractor
 
 async def name_error():
     "Raise a ``NameError``"
-    getattr(doggypants)
+    getattr(doggypants)  # noqa
 
 
 async def breakpoint_forever():
@@ -12,18 +12,31 @@ async def breakpoint_forever():
     while True:
         await tractor.breakpoint()
 
+        # NOTE: if the test never sent 'q'/'quit' commands
+        # on the pdb repl, without this checkpoint line the
+        # repl would spin in this actor forever.
+        # await trio.sleep(0)
+
 
 async def spawn_until(depth=0):
     """"A nested nursery that triggers another ``NameError``.
     """
     async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
         if depth < 1:
-            # await n.run_in_actor('breakpoint_forever', breakpoint_forever)
-            await n.run_in_actor(
+
+            await n.run_in_actor(breakpoint_forever)
+
+            p = await n.run_in_actor(
                 name_error,
                 name='name_error'
             )
+            await trio.sleep(0.5)
+            # rx and propagate error from child
+            await p.result()
+
         else:
+            # recusrive call to spawn another process branching layer of
+            # the tree
             depth -= 1
             await n.run_in_actor(
                 spawn_until,
@@ -53,6 +66,7 @@ async def main():
     """
     async with tractor.open_nursery(
         debug_mode=True,
+        # loglevel='cancel',
     ) as n:
 
         # spawn both actors
@@ -67,8 +81,16 @@ async def main():
             name='spawner1',
         )
 
+        # TODO: test this case as well where the parent don't see
+        # the sub-actor errors by default and instead expect a user
+        # ctrl-c to kill the root.
+        with trio.move_on_after(3):
+            await trio.sleep_forever()
+
         # gah still an issue here.
         await portal.result()
+
+        # should never get here
         await portal1.result()
 
 

examples/debugging/multi_subactor_root_errors.py

@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
+'''
+Test that a nested nursery will avoid clobbering
+the debugger latched by a broken child.
+
+'''
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
 async def name_error():
     "Raise a ``NameError``"
-    getattr(doggypants)
+    getattr(doggypants)  # noqa
 
 
 async def spawn_error():
@@ -32,7 +38,10 @@ async def main():
         - root actor should then fail on assert
         - program termination
     """
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+        # loglevel='cancel',
+    ) as n:
 
         # spawn both actors
         portal = await n.run_in_actor(
@@ -54,4 +63,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/multi_subactors.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ async def breakpoint_forever():
 
 async def name_error():
     "Raise a ``NameError``"
-    getattr(doggypants)
+    getattr(doggypants)  # noqa
 
 
 async def spawn_error():
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ async def main():
     `-python -m tractor._child --uid ('spawn_error', '52ee14a5 ...)
        `-python -m tractor._child --uid ('name_error', '3391222c ...)
     """
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ) as n:
 
         # Spawn both actors, don't bother with collecting results
         # (would result in a different debugger outcome due to parent's
@@ -47,4 +49,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/open_ctx_modnofound.py

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def just_sleep(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    **kwargs,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Start and sleep.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+async def main() -> None:
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ) as n:
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            'ctx_child',
+
+            # XXX: we don't enable the current module in order
+            # to trigger `ModuleNotFound`.
+            enable_modules=[],
+        )
+
+        async with portal.open_context(
+            just_sleep,  # taken from pytest parameterization
+        ) as (ctx, sent):
+            raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/per_actor_debug.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+async def die():
+    raise RuntimeError
+
+
+async def main():
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
+
+        debug_actor = await tn.start_actor(
+            'debugged_boi',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+            debug_mode=True,
+        )
+        crash_boi = await tn.start_actor(
+            'crash_boi',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+            # debug_mode=True,
+        )
+
+        async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+            n.start_soon(debug_actor.run, die)
+            n.start_soon(crash_boi.run, die)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/restore_builtin_breakpoint.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import os
+import sys
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+async def main() -> None:
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(debug_mode=True) as an:
+
+        assert os.environ['PYTHONBREAKPOINT'] == 'tractor._debug._set_trace'
+
+        # TODO: an assert that verifies the hook has indeed been, hooked
+        # XD
+        assert sys.breakpointhook is not tractor._debug._set_trace
+
+        breakpoint()
+
+    # TODO: an assert that verifies the hook is unhooked..
+    assert sys.breakpointhook
+    breakpoint()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/root_actor_breakpoint.py

@@ -4,12 +4,16 @@ import tractor
 
 async def main():
 
-    await trio.sleep(0.1)
+    async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ):
 
-    await tractor.breakpoint()
+        await trio.sleep(0.1)
 
-    await trio.sleep(0.1)
+        await tractor.breakpoint()
+
+        await trio.sleep(0.1)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/root_actor_breakpoint_forever.py

@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
 async def main():
 
-    while True:
-        await tractor.breakpoint()
+    async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ):
+        while True:
+            await tractor.breakpoint()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/root_actor_error.py

@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
 async def main():
-    assert 0
+    async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ):
+        assert 0
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/root_cancelled_but_child_is_in_tty_lock.py

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
 async def name_error():
     "Raise a ``NameError``"
-    getattr(doggypants)
+    getattr(doggypants)  # noqa
 
 
 async def spawn_until(depth=0):
@@ -37,7 +38,10 @@ async def main():
        └─ python -m tractor._child --uid ('name_error', '6c2733b8 ...)
 
     """
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+        loglevel='warning'
+    ) as n:
 
         # spawn both actors
         portal = await n.run_in_actor(
@@ -58,4 +62,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True, loglevel='warning')
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/root_timeout_while_child_crashed.py

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+async def key_error():
+    "Raise a ``NameError``"
+    return {}['doggy']
+
+
+async def main():
+    """Root dies 
+
+    """
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+        loglevel='debug'
+    ) as n:
+
+        # spawn both actors
+        portal = await n.run_in_actor(key_error)
+
+        # XXX: originally a bug caused by this is where root would enter
+        # the debugger and clobber the tty used by the repl even though
+        # child should have it locked.
+        with trio.fail_after(1):
+            await trio.Event().wait()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/subactor_bp_in_ctx.py

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import tractor
+import trio
+
+
+async def gen():
+    yield 'yo'
+    await tractor.breakpoint()
+    yield 'yo'
+    await tractor.breakpoint()
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def just_bp(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+) -> None:
+
+    await ctx.started()
+    await tractor.breakpoint()
+
+    # TODO: bps and errors in this call..
+    async for val in gen():
+        print(val)
+
+    # await trio.sleep(0.5)
+
+    # prematurely destroy the connection
+    await ctx.chan.aclose()
+
+    # THIS CAUSES AN UNRECOVERABLE HANG
+    # without latest ``pdbpp``:
+    assert 0
+
+
+
+async def main():
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ) as n:
+        p = await n.start_actor(
+            'bp_boi',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+        async with p.open_context(
+            just_bp,
+        ) as (ctx, first):
+            await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/subactor_breakpoint.py

@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ async def breakpoint_forever():
 
 async def main():
 
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ) as n:
 
         portal = await n.run_in_actor(
             breakpoint_forever,
@@ -21,4 +23,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/debugging/subactor_error.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
@@ -6,11 +7,13 @@ async def name_error():
 
 
 async def main():
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        debug_mode=True,
+    ) as n:
 
         portal = await n.run_in_actor(name_error)
         await portal.result()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, debug_mode=True)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/full_fledged_streaming_service.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import tractor
 async def stream_data(seed):
     for i in range(seed):
         yield i
-        await trio.sleep(0)  # trigger scheduler
+        await trio.sleep(0.0001)  # trigger scheduler
 
 
 # this is the third actor; the aggregator
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ async def aggregate(seed):
             # fork point
             portal = await nursery.start_actor(
                 name=f'streamer_{i}',
-                rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
             )
 
             portals.append(portal)
@@ -29,10 +29,13 @@ async def aggregate(seed):
         send_chan, recv_chan = trio.open_memory_channel(500)
 
         async def push_to_chan(portal, send_chan):
+
+            # TODO: https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/207
             async with send_chan:
-                async for value in await portal.run(stream_data, seed=seed):
-                    # leverage trio's built-in backpressure
-                    await send_chan.send(value)
+                async with portal.open_stream_from(stream_data, seed=seed) as stream:
+                    async for value in stream:
+                        # leverage trio's built-in backpressure
+                        await send_chan.send(value)
 
             print(f"FINISHED ITERATING {portal.channel.uid}")
 
@@ -65,24 +68,31 @@ async def aggregate(seed):
 # this is the main actor and *arbiter*
 async def main():
     # a nursery which spawns "actors"
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        arbiter_addr=('127.0.0.1', 1616)
+    ) as nursery:
 
         seed = int(1e3)
-        import time
         pre_start = time.time()
 
-        portal = await nursery.run_in_actor(
-            aggregate,
+        portal = await nursery.start_actor(
             name='aggregator',
-            seed=seed,
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
         )
 
-        start = time.time()
-        # the portal call returns exactly what you'd expect
-        # as if the remote "aggregate" function was called locally
-        result_stream = []
-        async for value in await portal.result():
-            result_stream.append(value)
+        async with portal.open_stream_from(
+            aggregate,
+            seed=seed,
+        ) as stream:
+
+            start = time.time()
+            # the portal call returns exactly what you'd expect
+            # as if the remote "aggregate" function was called locally
+            result_stream = []
+            async for value in stream:
+                result_stream.append(value)
+
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
 
         print(f"STREAM TIME = {time.time() - start}")
         print(f"STREAM + SPAWN TIME = {time.time() - pre_start}")
@@ -91,4 +101,4 @@ async def main():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    final_stream = tractor.run(main, arbiter_addr=('127.0.0.1', 1616))
+    final_stream = trio.run(main)

examples/infected_asyncio_echo_server.py

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+'''
+An SC compliant infected ``asyncio`` echo server.
+
+'''
+import asyncio
+from statistics import mean
+import time
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+async def aio_echo_server(
+    to_trio: trio.MemorySendChannel,
+    from_trio: asyncio.Queue,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    # a first message must be sent **from** this ``asyncio``
+    # task or the ``trio`` side will never unblock from
+    # ``tractor.to_asyncio.open_channel_from():``
+    to_trio.send_nowait('start')
+
+    # XXX: this uses an ``from_trio: asyncio.Queue`` currently but we
+    # should probably offer something better.
+    while True:
+        # echo the msg back
+        to_trio.send_nowait(await from_trio.get())
+        await asyncio.sleep(0)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def trio_to_aio_echo_server(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+):
+    # this will block until the ``asyncio`` task sends a "first"
+    # message.
+    async with tractor.to_asyncio.open_channel_from(
+        aio_echo_server,
+    ) as (first, chan):
+
+        assert first == 'start'
+        await ctx.started(first)
+
+        async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+            async for msg in stream:
+                await chan.send(msg)
+
+                out = await chan.receive()
+                # echo back to parent actor-task
+                await stream.send(out)
+
+
+async def main():
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+        p = await n.start_actor(
+            'aio_server',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+            infect_asyncio=True,
+        )
+        async with p.open_context(
+            trio_to_aio_echo_server,
+        ) as (ctx, first):
+
+            assert first == 'start'
+
+            count = 0
+            async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                delays = []
+                send = time.time()
+
+                await stream.send(count)
+                async for msg in stream:
+                    recv = time.time()
+                    delays.append(recv - send)
+                    assert msg == count
+                    count += 1
+                    send = time.time()
+                    await stream.send(count)
+
+                    if count >= 1e3:
+                        break
+
+        print(f'mean round trip rate (Hz): {1/mean(delays)}')
+        await p.cancel_actor()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/integration/open_context_and_sleep.py

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import trio
+import click
+import tractor
+import pydantic
+# from multiprocessing import shared_memory
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def just_sleep(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    **kwargs,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Test a small ping-pong 2-way streaming server.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+async def main() -> None:
+
+    proc = await trio.open_process( (
+        'python',
+        '-c',
+        'import trio; trio.run(trio.sleep_forever)',
+    ))
+    await proc.wait()
+    # await trio.sleep_forever()
+    # async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+    #     portal = await n.start_actor(
+    #         'rpc_server',
+    #         enable_modules=[__name__],
+    #     )
+
+    #     async with portal.open_context(
+    #         just_sleep,  # taken from pytest parameterization
+    #     ) as (ctx, sent):
+    #         await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import time
+    # time.sleep(999)
+    trio.run(main)

examples/multiple_streams_one_portal.py

@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ async def stream_data(seed=10):
 
 async def stream_from_portal(p, consumed):
 
-    async for item in await p.run(stream_data):
-        if item in consumed:
-            consumed.remove(item)
-        else:
-            consumed.append(item)
+    async with p.open_stream_from(stream_data) as stream:
+        async for item in stream:
+            if item in consumed:
+                consumed.remove(item)
+            else:
+                consumed.append(item)
 
 
 async def main():

examples/parallelism/_concurrent_futures_primes.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ PRIMES = [
     115797848077099,
     1099726899285419]
 
+
 def is_prime(n):
     if n < 2:
         return False
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ def is_prime(n):
             return False
     return True
 
+
 def main():
     with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
         start = time.time()
@@ -33,6 +35,7 @@ def main():
 
         print(f'processing took {time.time() - start} seconds')
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     start = time.time()

examples/parallelism/concurrent_actors_primes.py

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ Demonstration of the prime number detector example from the
 
 https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#processpoolexecutor-example
 
-This uses no extra threads, fancy semaphores or futures; all we need 
+This uses no extra threads, fancy semaphores or futures; all we need
 is ``tractor``'s channels.
 
 """
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
-from typing import List, Callable
+from typing import Callable
 import itertools
 import math
 import time
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ PRIMES = [
 ]
 
 
-def is_prime(n):
+async def is_prime(n):
     if n < 2:
         return False
     if n == 2:
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ async def worker_pool(workers=4):
 
         async def _map(
             worker_func: Callable[[int], bool],
-            sequence: List[int]
-        ) -> List[bool]:
+            sequence: list[int]
+        ) -> list[bool]:
 
             # define an async (local) task to collect results from workers
             async def send_result(func, value, portal):

examples/parallelism/single_func.py

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+"""
+Run with a process monitor from a terminal using::
+
+    $TERM -e watch -n 0.1  "pstree -a $$" \
+        & python examples/parallelism/single_func.py \
+        && kill $!
+
+"""
+import os
+
+import tractor
+import trio
+
+
+async def burn_cpu():
+
+    pid = os.getpid()
+
+    # burn a core @ ~ 50kHz
+    for _ in range(50000):
+        await trio.sleep(1/50000/50)
+
+    return os.getpid()
+
+
+async def main():
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        portal = await n.run_in_actor(burn_cpu)
+
+        #  burn rubber in the parent too
+        await burn_cpu()
+
+        # wait on result from target function
+        pid = await portal.result()
+
+    # end of nursery block
+    print(f"Collected subproc {pid}")
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/parallelism/we_are_processes.py

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 """
-Run with a process monitor from a terminal using:
-$TERM -e watch -n 0.1  "pstree -a $$" & python examples/parallelism/we_are_processes.py && kill $!
+Run with a process monitor from a terminal using::
+
+    $TERM -e watch -n 0.1  "pstree -a $$" \
+        & python examples/parallelism/we_are_processes.py \
+        && kill $!
 
 """
 from multiprocessing import cpu_count
@@ -11,8 +14,11 @@ import trio
 
 
 async def target():
-    print(f"Yo, i'm '{tractor.current_actor().name}' "
-          f"running in pid {os.getpid()}")
+    print(
+        f"Yo, i'm '{tractor.current_actor().name}' "
+        f"running in pid {os.getpid()}"
+    )
+
     await trio.sleep_forever()
 
 

examples/quick_cluster.py

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+async def sleepy_jane():
+    uid = tractor.current_actor().uid
+    print(f'Yo i am actor {uid}')
+    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+async def main():
+    '''
+    Spawn a flat actor cluster, with one process per
+    detected core.
+
+    '''
+    portal_map: dict[str, tractor.Portal]
+    results: dict[str, str]
+
+    # look at this hip new syntax!
+    async with (
+
+        tractor.open_actor_cluster(
+            modules=[__name__]
+        ) as portal_map,
+
+        trio.open_nursery() as n,
+    ):
+
+        for (name, portal) in portal_map.items():
+            n.start_soon(portal.run, sleepy_jane)
+
+        await trio.sleep(0.5)
+
+        # kill the cluster with a cancel
+        raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    try:
+        trio.run(main)
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        pass

examples/remote_error_propagation.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ async def main():
         for i in range(3):
             real_actors.append(await n.start_actor(
                 f'actor_{i}',
-                rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
             ))
 
         # start one actor that will fail immediately
@@ -24,6 +25,6 @@ async def main():
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     try:
         # also raises
-        tractor.run(main)
+        trio.run(main)
     except tractor.RemoteActorError:
         print("Look Maa that actor failed hard, hehhh!")

examples/rpc_bidir_streaming.py

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def simple_rpc(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    data: int,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''Test a small ping-pong 2-way streaming server.
+
+    '''
+    # signal to parent that we're up much like
+    # ``trio_typing.TaskStatus.started()``
+    await ctx.started(data + 1)
+
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+        count = 0
+        async for msg in stream:
+
+            assert msg == 'ping'
+            await stream.send('pong')
+            count += 1
+
+        else:
+            assert count == 10
+
+
+async def main() -> None:
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            'rpc_server',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+
+        # XXX: syntax requires py3.9
+        async with (
+
+            portal.open_context(
+                simple_rpc,  # taken from pytest parameterization
+                data=10,
+
+            ) as (ctx, sent),
+
+            ctx.open_stream() as stream,
+        ):
+
+            assert sent == 11
+
+            count = 0
+            # receive msgs using async for style
+            await stream.send('ping')
+
+            async for msg in stream:
+                assert msg == 'pong'
+                await stream.send('ping')
+                count += 1
+
+                if count >= 9:
+                    break
+
+        # explicitly teardown the daemon-actor
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    trio.run(main)

examples/service_discovery.py

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+import trio
 import tractor
 
 tractor.log.get_console_log("INFO")
 
+
 async def main(service_name):
 
     async with tractor.open_nursery() as an:
@@ -17,4 +19,4 @@ async def main(service_name):
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    tractor.run(main, 'some_actor_name')
+    trio.run(main, 'some_actor_name')

nooz/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+!.gitignore

nooz/322.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Strictly support Python 3.10+, start runtime machinery reorg
+
+Since we want to push forward using the new `match:` syntax for our
+internal RPC-msg loops, we officially drop 3.9 support for the next
+release which should coincide well with the first release of 3.11.
+
+This patch set also officially removes the ``tractor.run()`` API (which
+has been deprecated for some time) as well as starts an initial re-org
+of the internal runtime core by:
+- renaming ``tractor._actor`` -> ``._runtime``
+- moving the ``._runtime.ActorActor._process_messages()`` and
+  ``._async_main()`` to be module level singleton-task-functions since
+  they are only started once for each connection and actor spawn
+  respectively; this internal API thus looks more similar to (at the
+  time of writing) the ``trio``-internals in ``trio._core._run``.
+- officially remove ``tractor.run()``, now deprecated for some time.

nooz/324.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Only set `._debug.Lock.local_pdb_complete` if has been created.
+
+This can be triggered by a very rare race condition (and thus we have no
+working test yet) but it is known to exist in (a) consumer project(s).

nooz/333.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Add support for ``trio >= 0.22`` and support for the new Python 3.11
+``[Base]ExceptionGroup`` from `pep 654`_ via the backported
+`exceptiongroup`_ package and some final fixes to the debug mode
+subsystem.
+
+This port ended up driving some (hopefully) final fixes to our debugger
+subsystem including the solution to all lingering stdstreams locking
+race-conditions and deadlock scenarios. This includes extending the
+debugger tests suite as well as cancellation and ``asyncio`` mode cases.
+Some of the notable details:
+
+- always reverting to the ``trio`` SIGINT handler when leaving debug
+  mode.
+- bypassing child attempts to acquire the debug lock when detected
+  to be amdist actor-runtime-cancellation.
+- allowing the root actor to cancel local but IPC-stale subactor
+  requests-tasks for the debug lock when in a "no IPC peers" state.
+
+Further we refined our ``ActorNursery`` semantics to be more similar to
+``trio`` in the sense that parent task errors are always packed into the
+actor-nursery emitted exception group and adjusted all tests and
+examples accordingly.
+
+.. _pep 654: https://peps.python.org/pep-0654/#handling-exception-groups
+.. _exceptiongroup: https://github.com/python-trio/exceptiongroup

nooz/335.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Establish an explicit "backend spawning" method table; use it from CI
+
+More clearly lays out the current set of (3) backends: ``['trio',
+'mp_spawn', 'mp_forkserver']`` and adjusts the ``._spawn.py`` internals
+as well as the test suite to accommodate.

nooz/336.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Add ``key: Callable[..., Hashable]`` support to ``.trionics.maybe_open_context()``
+
+Gives users finer grained control over cache hit behaviour using
+a callable which receives the input ``kwargs: dict``.

nooz/337.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Add support for debug-lock blocking using a ``._debug.Lock._blocked:
+set[tuple]`` and add ids when no-more IPC connections with the
+root actor are detected.
+
+This is an enhancement which (mostly) solves a lingering debugger
+locking race case we needed to handle:
+
+- child crashes acquires TTY lock in root and attaches to ``pdb``
+- child IPC goes down such that all channels to the root are broken
+  / non-functional.
+- root is stuck thinking the child is still in debug even though it
+  can't be contacted and the child actor machinery hasn't been
+  cancelled by its parent.
+- root get's stuck in deadlock with child since it won't send a cancel
+  request until the child is finished debugging (to avoid clobbering
+  a child that is actually using the debugger), but the child can't
+  unlock the debugger bc IPC is down and it can't contact the root.
+
+To avoid this scenario add debug lock blocking list via
+`._debug.Lock._blocked: set[tuple]` which holds actor uids for any actor
+that is detected by the root as having no transport channel connections
+(of which at least one should exist if this sub-actor at some point
+acquired the debug lock). The root consequently checks this list for any
+actor that tries to (re)acquire the lock and blocks with
+a ``ContextCancelled``. Further, when a debug condition is tested in
+``._runtime._invoke``, the context's ``._enter_debugger_on_cancel`` is
+set to `False` if the actor was put on the block list then all
+post-mortem / crash handling will be bypassed for that task.
+
+In theory this approach to block list management may cause problems
+where some nested child actor acquires and releases the lock multiple
+times and it gets stuck on the block list after the first use? If this
+turns out to be an issue we can try changing the strat so blocks are
+only added when the root has zero IPC peers left?
+
+Further, this adds a root-locking-task side cancel scope,
+``Lock._root_local_task_cs_in_debug``, which can be ``.cancel()``-ed by the root
+runtime when a stale lock is detected during the IPC channel testing.
+However, right now we're NOT using this since it seems to cause test
+failures likely due to causing pre-mature cancellation and maybe needs
+a bit more experimenting?

nooz/343.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Rework our ``.trionics.BroadcastReceiver`` internals to avoid method
+recursion and approach a design and interface closer to ``trio``'s
+``MemoryReceiveChannel``.
+
+The details of the internal changes include:
+
+- implementing a ``BroadcastReceiver.receive_nowait()`` and using it
+  within the async ``.receive()`` thus avoiding recursion from
+  ``.receive()``.
+- failing over to an internal ``._receive_from_underlying()`` when the
+  ``_nowait()`` call raises ``trio.WouldBlock``
+- adding ``BroadcastState.statistics()`` for debugging and testing both
+  internals and by users.
+- add an internal ``BroadcastReceiver._raise_on_lag: bool`` which can be
+  set to avoid ``Lagged`` raising for possible use cases where a user
+  wants to choose between a [cheap or nasty
+  pattern](https://zguide.zeromq.org/docs/chapter7/#The-Cheap-or-Nasty-Pattern)
+  the the particular stream (we use this in ``piker``'s dark clearing
+  engine to avoid fast feeds breaking during HFT periods).

nooz/344.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Always ``list``-cast the ``mngrs`` input to
+``.trionics.gather_contexts()`` and ensure its size otherwise raise
+a ``ValueError``.
+
+Turns out that trying to pass an inline-style generator comprehension
+doesn't seem to work inside the ``async with`` expression? Further, in
+such a case we can get a hang waiting on the all-entered event
+completion when the internal mngrs iteration is a noop. Instead we
+always greedily check a size and error on empty input; the lazy
+iteration of a generator input is not beneficial anyway since we're
+entering all manager instances in concurrent tasks.

nooz/346.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Fixes to ensure IPC (channel) breakage doesn't result in hung actor
+trees; the zombie reaping and general supervision machinery will always
+clean up and terminate.
+
+This includes not only the (mostly minor) fixes to solve these cases but
+also a new extensive test suite in `test_advanced_faults.py` with an
+accompanying highly configurable example module-script in
+`examples/advanced_faults/ipc_failure_during_stream.py`. Tests ensure we
+never get hang or zombies despite operating in debug mode and attempt to
+simulate all possible IPC transport failure cases for a local-host actor
+tree.
+
+Further we simplify `Context.open_stream.__aexit__()` to just call
+`MsgStream.aclose()` directly more or less avoiding a pure duplicate
+code path.

nooz/349.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Always redraw the `pdbpp` prompt on `SIGINT` during REPL use.
+
+There was recent changes todo with Python 3.10 that required us to pin
+to a specific commit in `pdbpp` which have recently been fixed minus
+this last issue with `SIGINT` shielding: not clobbering or not
+showing the `(Pdb++)` prompt on ctlr-c by the user. This repairs all
+that by firstly removing the standard KBI intercepting of the std lib's
+`pdb.Pdb._cmdloop()` as well as ensuring that only the actor with REPL
+control ever reports `SIGINT` handler log msgs and prompt redraws. With
+this we move back to using pypi `pdbpp` release.

nooz/356.trivial.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Drop `trio.Process.aclose()` usage, copy into our spawning code.
+
+The details are laid out in https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/330.
+`trio` changed is process running quite some time ago, this just copies
+out the small bit we needed (from the old `.aclose()`) for hard kills
+where a soft runtime cancel request fails and our "zombie killer"
+implementation kicks in.

nooz/358.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Switch to using the fork & fix of `pdb++`, `pdbp`:
+https://github.com/mdmintz/pdbp
+
+Allows us to sidestep a variety of issues that aren't being maintained
+in the upstream project thanks to the hard work of @mdmintz!
+
+We also include some default settings adjustments as per recent
+development on the fork:
+
+- sticky mode is still turned on by default but now activates when
+  a using the `ll` repl command.
+- turn off line truncation by default to avoid inter-line gaps when
+  resizing the terimnal during use.
+- when using the backtrace cmd either by `w` or `bt`, the config
+  automatically switches to non-sticky mode.

nooz/HOWTO.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+See both the `towncrier docs`_ and the `pluggy release readme`_ for hot
+tips. We basically have the most minimal setup and release process right
+now and use the default `fragment set`_.
+
+
+.. _towncrier docs: https://github.com/twisted/towncrier#quick-start
+.. _pluggy release readme: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pluggy/blob/main/changelog/README.rst
+.. _fragment set: https://github.com/twisted/towncrier#news-fragments

nooz/_template.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{% for section in sections %}
+{% set underline = "-" %}
+{% if section %}
+{{section}}
+{{ underline * section|length }}{% set underline = "~" %}
+
+{% endif %}
+{% if sections[section] %}
+{% for category, val in definitions.items() if category in sections[section] %}
+
+{{ definitions[category]['name'] }}
+{{ underline * definitions[category]['name']|length }}
+
+{% if definitions[category]['showcontent'] %}
+{% for text, values in sections[section][category]|dictsort(by='value') %}
+{% set issue_joiner = joiner(', ') %}
+- {% for value in values|sort %}{{ issue_joiner() }}`{{ value }} <https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/{{ value[1:] }}>`_{% endfor %}: {{ text }}
+
+{% endfor %}
+{% else %}
+- {{ sections[section][category]['']|sort|join(', ') }}
+
+
+{% endif %}
+{% if sections[section][category]|length == 0 %}
+
+No significant changes.
+
+{% else %}
+{% endif %}
+{% endfor %}
+{% else %}
+
+No significant changes.
+
+{% endif %}
+{% endfor %}

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[tool.towncrier]
+package = "tractor"
+filename = "NEWS.rst"
+directory = "nooz/"
+version = "0.1.0a6"
+title_format = "tractor {version} ({project_date})"
+template = "nooz/_template.rst"
+all_bullets = true
+
+  [[tool.towncrier.type]]
+  directory = "feature"
+  name = "Features"
+  showcontent = true
+
+  [[tool.towncrier.type]]
+  directory = "bugfix"
+  name = "Bug Fixes"
+  showcontent = true
+
+  [[tool.towncrier.type]]
+  directory = "doc"
+  name = "Improved Documentation"
+  showcontent = true
+
+  [[tool.towncrier.type]]
+  directory = "trivial"
+  name = "Trivial/Internal Changes"
+  showcontent = true

requirements-docs.txt

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 sphinx
-sphinx_typlog_theme
+sphinx_book_theme

requirements-test.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 pytest
 pytest-trio
-pdbpp
+pytest-timeout
+pdbp
 mypy
 trio_typing
 pexpect
+towncrier

setup.py

@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 #
-# tractor: a trionic actor model built on `multiprocessing` and `trio`
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2018-2020  Tyler Goodlet
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 # (at your option) any later version.
 
 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 from setuptools import setup
 
 with open('docs/README.rst', encoding='utf-8') as f:
@@ -24,39 +25,73 @@ with open('docs/README.rst', encoding='utf-8') as f:
 
 setup(
     name="tractor",
-    version='0.1.0.alpha0',
-    description='A trionic actor model built on `multiprocessing` and `trio`',
+    version='0.1.0a6dev0',  # alpha zone
+    description='structured concurrrent `trio`-"actors"',
     long_description=readme,
-    license='GPLv3',
+    license='AGPLv3',
     author='Tyler Goodlet',
     maintainer='Tyler Goodlet',
-    maintainer_email='jgbt@protonmail.com',
+    maintainer_email='goodboy_foss@protonmail.com',
     url='https://github.com/goodboy/tractor',
     platforms=['linux', 'windows'],
     packages=[
         'tractor',
-        'tractor.testing',
+        'tractor.experimental',
+        'tractor.trionics',
     ],
     install_requires=[
-        'msgpack', 'trio>0.8', 'async_generator', 'colorlog', 'wrapt',
-        'trio_typing', 'pdbpp',
+
+        # trio related
+        # proper range spec:
+        # https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/discussions/install-requires-vs-requirements/#id5
+        'trio >= 0.22',
+        'async_generator',
+        'trio_typing',
+        'exceptiongroup',
+
+        # tooling
+        'tricycle',
+        'trio_typing',
+        'colorlog',
+        'wrapt',
+
+        # IPC serialization
+        'msgspec',
+
+        # debug mode REPL
+        'pdbp',
+
+        # pip ref docs on these specs:
+        # https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/requirement-specifiers/#examples
+        # and pep:
+        # https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/#version-specifiers
+
+        # windows deps workaround for ``pdbpp``
+        # https://github.com/pdbpp/pdbpp/issues/498
+        # https://github.com/pdbpp/fancycompleter/issues/37
+        'pyreadline3 ; platform_system == "Windows"',
+
     ],
     tests_require=['pytest'],
-    python_requires=">=3.7",
+    python_requires=">=3.10",
     keywords=[
-        "async", "concurrency", "actor model", "distributed",
-        'trio', 'multiprocessing'
+        'trio',
+        'async',
+        'concurrency',
+        'structured concurrency',
+        'actor model',
+        'distributed',
+        'multiprocessing'
     ],
     classifiers=[
-        'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
-        'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)'
-        'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux',
+        "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+        "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
+        "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
         "Framework :: Trio",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
         "Intended Audience :: Developers",
         "Topic :: System :: Distributed Computing",

tests/conftest.py

@@ -7,16 +7,91 @@ import os
 import random
 import signal
 import platform
+import pathlib
 import time
+import inspect
+from functools import partial, wraps
 
 import pytest
+import trio
 import tractor
 
-# export for tests
-from tractor.testing import tractor_test  # noqa
-
-
 pytest_plugins = ['pytester']
+
+
+def tractor_test(fn):
+    """
+    Use:
+
+    @tractor_test
+    async def test_whatever():
+        await ...
+
+    If fixtures:
+
+        - ``arb_addr`` (a socket addr tuple where arbiter is listening)
+        - ``loglevel`` (logging level passed to tractor internals)
+        - ``start_method`` (subprocess spawning backend)
+
+    are defined in the `pytest` fixture space they will be automatically
+    injected to tests declaring these funcargs.
+    """
+    @wraps(fn)
+    def wrapper(
+        *args,
+        loglevel=None,
+        arb_addr=None,
+        start_method=None,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        # __tracebackhide__ = True
+
+        if 'arb_addr' in inspect.signature(fn).parameters:
+            # injects test suite fixture value to test as well
+            # as `run()`
+            kwargs['arb_addr'] = arb_addr
+
+        if 'loglevel' in inspect.signature(fn).parameters:
+            # allows test suites to define a 'loglevel' fixture
+            # that activates the internal logging
+            kwargs['loglevel'] = loglevel
+
+        if start_method is None:
+            if platform.system() == "Windows":
+                start_method = 'trio'
+
+        if 'start_method' in inspect.signature(fn).parameters:
+            # set of subprocess spawning backends
+            kwargs['start_method'] = start_method
+
+        if kwargs:
+
+            # use explicit root actor start
+
+            async def _main():
+                async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+                    # **kwargs,
+                    arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+                    loglevel=loglevel,
+                    start_method=start_method,
+
+                    # TODO: only enable when pytest is passed --pdb
+                    # debug_mode=True,
+
+                ):
+                    await fn(*args, **kwargs)
+
+            main = _main
+
+        else:
+            # use implicit root actor start
+            main = partial(fn, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        return trio.run(main)
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
 _arb_addr = '127.0.0.1', random.randint(1000, 9999)
 
 
@@ -39,20 +114,27 @@ no_windows = pytest.mark.skipif(
 )
 
 
-def repodir():
-    """Return the abspath to the repo directory.
-    """
-    dirname = os.path.dirname
-    dirpath = os.path.abspath(
-        dirname(dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
-        )
-    return dirpath
+def repodir() -> pathlib.Path:
+    '''
+    Return the abspath to the repo directory.
+
+    '''
+    # 2 parents up to step up through tests/<repo_dir>
+    return pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent.absolute()
+
+
+def examples_dir() -> pathlib.Path:
+    '''
+    Return the abspath to the examples directory as `pathlib.Path`.
+
+    '''
+    return repodir() / 'examples'
 
 
 def pytest_addoption(parser):
     parser.addoption(
         "--ll", action="store", dest='loglevel',
-        default=None, help="logging level to set when testing"
+        default='ERROR', help="logging level to set when testing"
     )
 
     parser.addoption(
@@ -64,31 +146,31 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
 
 def pytest_configure(config):
     backend = config.option.spawn_backend
-
-    if backend == 'mp':
-        tractor._spawn.try_set_start_method('spawn')
-    elif backend == 'trio':
-        tractor._spawn.try_set_start_method(backend)
+    tractor._spawn.try_set_start_method(backend)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope='session', autouse=True)
 def loglevel(request):
     orig = tractor.log._default_loglevel
     level = tractor.log._default_loglevel = request.config.option.loglevel
+    tractor.log.get_console_log(level)
     yield level
     tractor.log._default_loglevel = orig
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope='session')
-def spawn_backend(request):
+def spawn_backend(request) -> str:
     return request.config.option.spawn_backend
 
 
+_ci_env: bool = os.environ.get('CI', False)
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(scope='session')
 def ci_env() -> bool:
     """Detect CI envoirment.
     """
-    return os.environ.get('TRAVIS', False) or os.environ.get('CI', False)
+    return _ci_env
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope='session')
@@ -98,24 +180,24 @@ def arb_addr():
 
 def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
     spawn_backend = metafunc.config.option.spawn_backend
+
     if not spawn_backend:
         # XXX some weird windows bug with `pytest`?
-        spawn_backend = 'mp'
-    assert spawn_backend in ('mp', 'trio')
+        spawn_backend = 'trio'
 
+    # TODO: maybe just use the literal `._spawn.SpawnMethodKey`?
+    assert spawn_backend in (
+        'mp_spawn',
+        'mp_forkserver',
+        'trio',
+    )
+
+    # NOTE: used to be used to dyanmically parametrize tests for when
+    # you just passed --spawn-backend=`mp` on the cli, but now we expect
+    # that cli input to be manually specified, BUT, maybe we'll do
+    # something like this again in the future?
     if 'start_method' in metafunc.fixturenames:
-        if spawn_backend == 'mp':
-            from multiprocessing import get_all_start_methods
-            methods = get_all_start_methods()
-            if 'fork' in methods:
-                # fork not available on windows, so check before
-                # removing XXX: the fork method is in general
-                # incompatible with trio's global scheduler state
-                methods.remove('fork')
-        elif spawn_backend == 'trio':
-            methods = ['trio']
-
-        metafunc.parametrize("start_method", methods, scope='module')
+        metafunc.parametrize("start_method", [spawn_backend], scope='module')
 
 
 def sig_prog(proc, sig):
@@ -131,16 +213,22 @@ def sig_prog(proc, sig):
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def daemon(loglevel, testdir, arb_addr):
-    """Run a daemon actor as a "remote arbiter".
-    """
+def daemon(
+    loglevel: str,
+    testdir,
+    arb_addr: tuple[str, int],
+):
+    '''
+    Run a daemon actor as a "remote arbiter".
+
+    '''
     if loglevel in ('trace', 'debug'):
         # too much logging will lock up the subproc (smh)
         loglevel = 'info'
 
     cmdargs = [
         sys.executable, '-c',
-        "import tractor; tractor.run_daemon([], arbiter_addr={}, loglevel={})"
+        "import tractor; tractor.run_daemon([], registry_addr={}, loglevel={})"
         .format(
             arb_addr,
             "'{}'".format(loglevel) if loglevel else None)

tests/test_2way.py

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+"""
+Bidirectional streaming.
+
+"""
+import pytest
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def simple_rpc(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    data: int,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Test a small ping-pong server.
+
+    '''
+    # signal to parent that we're up
+    await ctx.started(data + 1)
+
+    print('opening stream in callee')
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+        count = 0
+        while True:
+            try:
+                await stream.receive() == 'ping'
+            except trio.EndOfChannel:
+                assert count == 10
+                break
+            else:
+                print('pong')
+                await stream.send('pong')
+                count += 1
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def simple_rpc_with_forloop(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    data: int,
+
+) -> None:
+    """Same as previous test but using ``async for`` syntax/api.
+
+    """
+
+    # signal to parent that we're up
+    await ctx.started(data + 1)
+
+    print('opening stream in callee')
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+        count = 0
+        async for msg in stream:
+
+            assert msg == 'ping'
+            print('pong')
+            await stream.send('pong')
+            count += 1
+
+        else:
+            assert count == 10
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'use_async_for',
+    [True, False],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'server_func',
+    [simple_rpc, simple_rpc_with_forloop],
+)
+def test_simple_rpc(server_func, use_async_for):
+    '''
+    The simplest request response pattern.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
+                'rpc_server',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+
+            async with portal.open_context(
+                server_func,  # taken from pytest parameterization
+                data=10,
+            ) as (ctx, sent):
+
+                assert sent == 11
+
+                async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                    if use_async_for:
+
+                        count = 0
+                        # receive msgs using async for style
+                        print('ping')
+                        await stream.send('ping')
+
+                        async for msg in stream:
+                            assert msg == 'pong'
+                            print('ping')
+                            await stream.send('ping')
+                            count += 1
+
+                            if count >= 9:
+                                break
+
+                    else:
+                        # classic send/receive style
+                        for _ in range(10):
+
+                            print('ping')
+                            await stream.send('ping')
+                            assert await stream.receive() == 'pong'
+
+                # stream should terminate here
+
+            # final context result(s) should be consumed here in __aexit__()
+
+            await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+    trio.run(main)

tests/test_advanced_faults.py

@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+'''
+Sketchy network blackoutz, ugly byzantine gens, puedes eschuchar la
+cancelacion?..
+
+'''
+from functools import partial
+
+import pytest
+from _pytest.pathlib import import_path
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+from conftest import (
+    examples_dir,
+)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'debug_mode',
+    [False, True],
+    ids=['no_debug_mode', 'debug_mode'],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'ipc_break',
+    [
+        # no breaks
+        {
+            'break_parent_ipc_after': False,
+            'break_child_ipc_after': False,
+        },
+
+        # only parent breaks
+        {
+            'break_parent_ipc_after': 500,
+            'break_child_ipc_after': False,
+        },
+
+        # only child breaks
+        {
+            'break_parent_ipc_after': False,
+            'break_child_ipc_after': 500,
+        },
+
+        # both: break parent first
+        {
+            'break_parent_ipc_after': 500,
+            'break_child_ipc_after': 800,
+        },
+        # both: break child first
+        {
+            'break_parent_ipc_after': 800,
+            'break_child_ipc_after': 500,
+        },
+
+    ],
+    ids=[
+        'no_break',
+        'break_parent',
+        'break_child',
+        'break_both_parent_first',
+        'break_both_child_first',
+    ],
+)
+def test_ipc_channel_break_during_stream(
+    debug_mode: bool,
+    spawn_backend: str,
+    ipc_break: dict | None,
+):
+    '''
+    Ensure we can have an IPC channel break its connection during
+    streaming and it's still possible for the (simulated) user to kill
+    the actor tree using SIGINT.
+
+    We also verify the type of connection error expected in the parent
+    depending on which side if the IPC breaks first.
+
+    '''
+    if spawn_backend != 'trio':
+        if debug_mode:
+            pytest.skip('`debug_mode` only supported on `trio` spawner')
+
+        # non-`trio` spawners should never hit the hang condition that
+        # requires the user to do ctl-c to cancel the actor tree.
+        expect_final_exc = trio.ClosedResourceError
+
+    mod = import_path(
+        examples_dir() / 'advanced_faults' / 'ipc_failure_during_stream.py',
+        root=examples_dir(),
+    )
+
+    expect_final_exc = KeyboardInterrupt
+
+    # when ONLY the child breaks we expect the parent to get a closed
+    # resource error on the next `MsgStream.receive()` and then fail out
+    # and cancel the child from there.
+    if (
+
+        # only child breaks
+        (
+            ipc_break['break_child_ipc_after']
+            and ipc_break['break_parent_ipc_after'] is False
+        )
+
+        # both break but, parent breaks first
+        or (
+            ipc_break['break_child_ipc_after'] is not False
+            and (
+                ipc_break['break_parent_ipc_after']
+                > ipc_break['break_child_ipc_after']
+            )
+        )
+
+    ):
+        expect_final_exc = trio.ClosedResourceError
+
+    # when the parent IPC side dies (even if the child's does as well
+    # but the child fails BEFORE the parent) we expect the channel to be
+    # sent a stop msg from the child at some point which will signal the
+    # parent that the stream has been terminated.
+    # NOTE: when the parent breaks "after" the child you get this same
+    # case as well, the child breaks the IPC channel with a stop msg
+    # before any closure takes place.
+    elif (
+        # only parent breaks
+        (
+            ipc_break['break_parent_ipc_after']
+            and ipc_break['break_child_ipc_after'] is False
+        )
+
+        # both break but, child breaks first
+        or (
+            ipc_break['break_parent_ipc_after'] is not False
+            and (
+                ipc_break['break_child_ipc_after']
+                > ipc_break['break_parent_ipc_after']
+            )
+        )
+    ):
+        expect_final_exc = trio.EndOfChannel
+
+    with pytest.raises(expect_final_exc):
+        trio.run(
+            partial(
+                mod.main,
+                debug_mode=debug_mode,
+                start_method=spawn_backend,
+                **ipc_break,
+            )
+        )
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def break_ipc_after_started(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+) -> None:
+    await ctx.started()
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+        await stream.aclose()
+        await trio.sleep(0.2)
+        await ctx.chan.send(None)
+        print('child broke IPC and terminating')
+
+
+def test_stream_closed_right_after_ipc_break_and_zombie_lord_engages():
+    '''
+    Verify that is a subactor's IPC goes down just after bringing up a stream
+    the parent can trigger a SIGINT and the child will be reaped out-of-IPC by
+    the localhost process supervision machinery: aka "zombie lord".
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
+                'ipc_breaker',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+
+            with trio.move_on_after(1):
+                async with (
+                    portal.open_context(
+                        break_ipc_after_started
+                    ) as (ctx, sent),
+                ):
+                    async with ctx.open_stream():
+                        await trio.sleep(0.5)
+
+                    print('parent waiting on context')
+
+            print('parent exited context')
+            raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+    with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
+        trio.run(main)

tests/test_advanced_streaming.py

@@ -0,0 +1,380 @@
+'''
+Advanced streaming patterns using bidirectional streams and contexts.
+
+'''
+from collections import Counter
+import itertools
+import platform
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+def is_win():
+    return platform.system() == 'Windows'
+
+
+_registry: dict[str, set[tractor.MsgStream]] = {
+    'even': set(),
+    'odd': set(),
+}
+
+
+async def publisher(
+
+    seed: int = 0,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    global _registry
+
+    def is_even(i):
+        return i % 2 == 0
+
+    for val in itertools.count(seed):
+
+        sub = 'even' if is_even(val) else 'odd'
+
+        for sub_stream in _registry[sub].copy():
+            await sub_stream.send(val)
+
+        # throttle send rate to ~1kHz
+        # making it readable to a human user
+        await trio.sleep(1/1000)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def subscribe(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    global _registry
+
+    # syn caller
+    await ctx.started(None)
+
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+        # update subs list as consumer requests
+        async for new_subs in stream:
+
+            new_subs = set(new_subs)
+            remove = new_subs - _registry.keys()
+
+            print(f'setting sub to {new_subs} for {ctx.chan.uid}')
+
+            # remove old subs
+            for sub in remove:
+                _registry[sub].remove(stream)
+
+            # add new subs for consumer
+            for sub in new_subs:
+                _registry[sub].add(stream)
+
+
+async def consumer(
+
+    subs: list[str],
+
+) -> None:
+
+    uid = tractor.current_actor().uid
+
+    async with tractor.wait_for_actor('publisher') as portal:
+        async with portal.open_context(subscribe) as (ctx, first):
+            async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                # flip between the provided subs dynamically
+                if len(subs) > 1:
+
+                    for sub in itertools.cycle(subs):
+                        print(f'setting dynamic sub to {sub}')
+                        await stream.send([sub])
+
+                        count = 0
+                        async for value in stream:
+                            print(f'{uid} got: {value}')
+                            if count > 5:
+                                break
+                            count += 1
+
+                else:  # static sub
+
+                    await stream.send(subs)
+                    async for value in stream:
+                        print(f'{uid} got: {value}')
+
+
+def test_dynamic_pub_sub():
+
+    global _registry
+
+    from multiprocessing import cpu_count
+    cpus = cpu_count()
+
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+            # name of this actor will be same as target func
+            await n.run_in_actor(publisher)
+
+            for i, sub in zip(
+                range(cpus - 2),
+                itertools.cycle(_registry.keys())
+            ):
+                await n.run_in_actor(
+                    consumer,
+                    name=f'consumer_{sub}',
+                    subs=[sub],
+                )
+
+            # make one dynamic subscriber
+            await n.run_in_actor(
+                consumer,
+                name='consumer_dynamic',
+                subs=list(_registry.keys()),
+            )
+
+            # block until cancelled by user
+            with trio.fail_after(3):
+                await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+    try:
+        trio.run(main)
+    except trio.TooSlowError:
+        pass
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def one_task_streams_and_one_handles_reqresp(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    await ctx.started()
+
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+        async def pingpong():
+            '''Run a simple req/response service.
+
+            '''
+            async for msg in stream:
+                print('rpc server ping')
+                assert msg == 'ping'
+                print('rpc server pong')
+                await stream.send('pong')
+
+        async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+            n.start_soon(pingpong)
+
+            for _ in itertools.count():
+                await stream.send('yo')
+                await trio.sleep(0.01)
+
+
+def test_reqresp_ontopof_streaming():
+    '''
+    Test a subactor that both streams with one task and
+    spawns another which handles a small requests-response
+    dialogue over the same bidir-stream.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+
+        # flat to make sure we get at least one pong
+        got_pong: bool = False
+        timeout: int = 2
+
+        if is_win():  # smh
+            timeout = 4
+
+        with trio.move_on_after(timeout):
+            async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+                # name of this actor will be same as target func
+                portal = await n.start_actor(
+                    'dual_tasks',
+                    enable_modules=[__name__]
+                )
+
+                async with portal.open_context(
+                    one_task_streams_and_one_handles_reqresp,
+
+                ) as (ctx, first):
+
+                    assert first is None
+
+                    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                        await stream.send('ping')
+
+                        async for msg in stream:
+                            print(f'client received: {msg}')
+
+                            assert msg in {'pong', 'yo'}
+
+                            if msg == 'pong':
+                                got_pong = True
+                                await stream.send('ping')
+                                print('client sent ping')
+
+        assert got_pong
+
+    try:
+        trio.run(main)
+    except trio.TooSlowError:
+        pass
+
+
+async def async_gen_stream(sequence):
+    for i in sequence:
+        yield i
+        await trio.sleep(0.1)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def echo_ctx_stream(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+) -> None:
+    await ctx.started()
+
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+        async for msg in stream:
+            await stream.send(msg)
+
+
+def test_sigint_both_stream_types():
+    '''Verify that running a bi-directional and recv only stream
+    side-by-side will cancel correctly from SIGINT.
+
+    '''
+    timeout: float = 2
+    if is_win():  # smh
+        timeout += 1
+
+    async def main():
+        with trio.fail_after(timeout):
+            async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+                # name of this actor will be same as target func
+                portal = await n.start_actor(
+                    '2_way',
+                    enable_modules=[__name__]
+                )
+
+                async with portal.open_context(echo_ctx_stream) as (ctx, _):
+                    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+                        async with portal.open_stream_from(
+                            async_gen_stream,
+                            sequence=list(range(1)),
+                        ) as gen_stream:
+
+                            msg = await gen_stream.receive()
+                            await stream.send(msg)
+                            resp = await stream.receive()
+                            assert resp == msg
+                            raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+    try:
+        trio.run(main)
+        assert 0, "Didn't receive KBI!?"
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        pass
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def inf_streamer(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Stream increasing ints until terminated with a 'done' msg.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+
+    async with (
+        ctx.open_stream() as stream,
+        trio.open_nursery() as n,
+    ):
+        async def bail_on_sentinel():
+            async for msg in stream:
+                if msg == 'done':
+                    await stream.aclose()
+                else:
+                    print(f'streamer received {msg}')
+
+        # start termination detector
+        n.start_soon(bail_on_sentinel)
+
+        for val in itertools.count():
+            try:
+                await stream.send(val)
+            except trio.ClosedResourceError:
+                # close out the stream gracefully
+                break
+
+    print('terminating streamer')
+
+
+def test_local_task_fanout_from_stream():
+    '''
+    Single stream with multiple local consumer tasks using the
+    ``MsgStream.subscribe()` api.
+
+    Ensure all tasks receive all values after stream completes sending.
+
+    '''
+    consumers = 22
+
+    async def main():
+
+        counts = Counter()
+
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
+            p = await tn.start_actor(
+                'inf_streamer',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+            async with (
+                p.open_context(inf_streamer) as (ctx, _),
+                ctx.open_stream() as stream,
+            ):
+
+                async def pull_and_count(name: str):
+                    # name = trio.lowlevel.current_task().name
+                    async with stream.subscribe() as recver:
+                        assert isinstance(
+                            recver,
+                            tractor.trionics.BroadcastReceiver
+                        )
+                        async for val in recver:
+                            # print(f'{name}: {val}')
+                            counts[name] += 1
+
+                        print(f'{name} bcaster ended')
+
+                    print(f'{name} completed')
+
+                with trio.fail_after(3):
+                    async with trio.open_nursery() as nurse:
+                        for i in range(consumers):
+                            nurse.start_soon(pull_and_count, i)
+
+                        await trio.sleep(0.5)
+                        print('\nterminating')
+                        await stream.send('done')
+
+            print('closed stream connection')
+
+            assert len(counts) == consumers
+            mx = max(counts.values())
+            # make sure each task received all stream values
+            assert all(val == mx for val in counts.values())
+
+            await p.cancel_actor()
+
+    trio.run(main)

tests/test_cancellation.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """
 Cancellation and error propagation
+
 """
 import os
 import signal
@@ -7,6 +8,10 @@ import platform
 import time
 from itertools import repeat
 
+from exceptiongroup import (
+    BaseExceptionGroup,
+    ExceptionGroup,
+)
 import pytest
 import trio
 import tractor
@@ -14,6 +19,10 @@ import tractor
 from conftest import tractor_test, no_windows
 
 
+def is_win():
+    return platform.system() == 'Windows'
+
+
 async def assert_err(delay=0):
     await trio.sleep(delay)
     assert 0
@@ -47,31 +56,57 @@ def test_remote_error(arb_addr, args_err):
     args, errtype = args_err
 
     async def main():
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        ) as nursery:
 
-            portal = await nursery.run_in_actor(assert_err, name='errorer', **args)
+            # on a remote type error caused by bad input args
+            # this should raise directly which means we **don't** get
+            # an exception group outside the nursery since the error
+            # here and the far end task error are one in the same?
+            portal = await nursery.run_in_actor(
+                assert_err, name='errorer', **args
+            )
 
             # get result(s) from main task
             try:
+                # this means the root actor will also raise a local
+                # parent task error and thus an eg will propagate out
+                # of this actor nursery.
                 await portal.result()
             except tractor.RemoteActorError as err:
                 assert err.type == errtype
                 print("Look Maa that actor failed hard, hehh")
                 raise
 
-    with pytest.raises(tractor.RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
-        tractor.run(main, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+    # ensure boxed errors
+    if args:
+        with pytest.raises(tractor.RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+            trio.run(main)
 
-    # ensure boxed error is correct
-    assert excinfo.value.type == errtype
+        assert excinfo.value.type == errtype
+
+    else:
+        # the root task will also error on the `.result()` call
+        # so we expect an error from there AND the child.
+        with pytest.raises(BaseExceptionGroup) as excinfo:
+            trio.run(main)
+
+        # ensure boxed errors
+        for exc in excinfo.value.exceptions:
+            assert exc.type == errtype
 
 
 def test_multierror(arb_addr):
-    """Verify we raise a ``trio.MultiError`` out of a nursery where
+    '''
+    Verify we raise a ``BaseExceptionGroup`` out of a nursery where
     more then one actor errors.
-    """
+
+    '''
     async def main():
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        ) as nursery:
 
             await nursery.run_in_actor(assert_err, name='errorer1')
             portal2 = await nursery.run_in_actor(assert_err, name='errorer2')
@@ -84,11 +119,11 @@ def test_multierror(arb_addr):
                 print("Look Maa that first actor failed hard, hehh")
                 raise
 
-        # here we should get a `trio.MultiError` containing exceptions
+        # here we should get a ``BaseExceptionGroup`` containing exceptions
         # from both subactors
 
-    with pytest.raises(trio.MultiError):
-        tractor.run(main, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+    with pytest.raises(BaseExceptionGroup):
+        trio.run(main)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('delay', (0, 0.5))
@@ -96,12 +131,15 @@ def test_multierror(arb_addr):
     'num_subactors', range(25, 26),
 )
 def test_multierror_fast_nursery(arb_addr, start_method, num_subactors, delay):
-    """Verify we raise a ``trio.MultiError`` out of a nursery where
+    """Verify we raise a ``BaseExceptionGroup`` out of a nursery where
     more then one actor errors and also with a delay before failure
     to test failure during an ongoing spawning.
     """
     async def main():
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        ) as nursery:
+
             for i in range(num_subactors):
                 await nursery.run_in_actor(
                     assert_err,
@@ -109,18 +147,30 @@ def test_multierror_fast_nursery(arb_addr, start_method, num_subactors, delay):
                     delay=delay
                 )
 
-    with pytest.raises(trio.MultiError) as exc_info:
-        tractor.run(main, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+    # with pytest.raises(trio.MultiError) as exc_info:
+    with pytest.raises(BaseExceptionGroup) as exc_info:
+        trio.run(main)
 
-    assert exc_info.type == tractor.MultiError
+    assert exc_info.type == ExceptionGroup
     err = exc_info.value
-    assert len(err.exceptions) == num_subactors
-    for exc in err.exceptions:
+    exceptions = err.exceptions
+
+    if len(exceptions) == 2:
+        # sometimes oddly now there's an embedded BrokenResourceError ?
+        for exc in exceptions:
+            excs = getattr(exc, 'exceptions', None)
+            if excs:
+                exceptions = excs
+                break
+
+    assert len(exceptions) == num_subactors
+
+    for exc in exceptions:
         assert isinstance(exc, tractor.RemoteActorError)
         assert exc.type == AssertionError
 
 
-def do_nothing():
+async def do_nothing():
     pass
 
 
@@ -132,10 +182,12 @@ def test_cancel_single_subactor(arb_addr, mechanism):
     async def spawn_actor():
         """Spawn an actor that blocks indefinitely.
         """
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        ) as nursery:
 
             portal = await nursery.start_actor(
-                'nothin', rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                'nothin', enable_modules=[__name__],
             )
             assert (await portal.run(do_nothing)) is None
 
@@ -146,10 +198,10 @@ def test_cancel_single_subactor(arb_addr, mechanism):
                 raise mechanism
 
     if mechanism == 'nursery_cancel':
-        tractor.run(spawn_actor, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+        trio.run(spawn_actor)
     else:
         with pytest.raises(mechanism):
-            tractor.run(spawn_actor, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+            trio.run(spawn_actor)
 
 
 async def stream_forever():
@@ -168,13 +220,14 @@ async def test_cancel_infinite_streamer(start_method):
         async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
             portal = await n.start_actor(
                 'donny',
-                rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
             )
 
             # this async for loop streams values from the above
             # async generator running in a separate process
-            async for letter in await portal.run(stream_forever):
-                print(letter)
+            async with portal.open_stream_from(stream_forever) as stream:
+                async for letter in stream:
+                    print(letter)
 
     # we support trio's cancellation system
     assert cancel_scope.cancelled_caught
@@ -186,8 +239,8 @@ async def test_cancel_infinite_streamer(start_method):
     [
         # daemon actors sit idle while single task actors error out
         (1, tractor.RemoteActorError, AssertionError, (assert_err, {}), None),
-        (2, tractor.MultiError, AssertionError, (assert_err, {}), None),
-        (3, tractor.MultiError, AssertionError, (assert_err, {}), None),
+        (2, BaseExceptionGroup, AssertionError, (assert_err, {}), None),
+        (3, BaseExceptionGroup, AssertionError, (assert_err, {}), None),
 
         # 1 daemon actor errors out while single task actors sleep forever
         (3, tractor.RemoteActorError, AssertionError, (sleep_forever, {}),
@@ -198,7 +251,7 @@ async def test_cancel_infinite_streamer(start_method):
          (do_nuthin, {}), (assert_err, {'delay': 1}, True)),
         # daemon complete quickly delay while single task
         # actors error after brief delay
-        (3, tractor.MultiError, AssertionError,
+        (3, BaseExceptionGroup, AssertionError,
          (assert_err, {'delay': 1}), (do_nuthin, {}, False)),
     ],
     ids=[
@@ -226,7 +279,7 @@ async def test_some_cancels_all(num_actors_and_errs, start_method, loglevel):
             for i in range(num_actors):
                 dactor_portals.append(await n.start_actor(
                     f'deamon_{i}',
-                    rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                    enable_modules=[__name__],
                 ))
 
             func, kwargs = ria_func
@@ -265,7 +318,7 @@ async def test_some_cancels_all(num_actors_and_errs, start_method, loglevel):
         # should error here with a ``RemoteActorError`` or ``MultiError``
 
     except first_err as err:
-        if isinstance(err, tractor.MultiError):
+        if isinstance(err, BaseExceptionGroup):
             assert len(err.exceptions) == num_actors
             for exc in err.exceptions:
                 if isinstance(exc, tractor.RemoteActorError):
@@ -308,10 +361,12 @@ async def spawn_and_error(breadth, depth) -> None:
 
 @tractor_test
 async def test_nested_multierrors(loglevel, start_method):
-    """Test that failed actor sets are wrapped in `trio.MultiError`s.
-    This test goes only 2 nurseries deep but we should eventually have tests
+    '''
+    Test that failed actor sets are wrapped in `BaseExceptionGroup`s. This
+    test goes only 2 nurseries deep but we should eventually have tests
     for arbitrary n-depth actor trees.
-    """
+
+    '''
     if start_method == 'trio':
         depth = 3
         subactor_breadth = 2
@@ -335,25 +390,37 @@ async def test_nested_multierrors(loglevel, start_method):
                         breadth=subactor_breadth,
                         depth=depth,
                     )
-        except trio.MultiError as err:
+        except BaseExceptionGroup as err:
             assert len(err.exceptions) == subactor_breadth
             for subexc in err.exceptions:
 
                 # verify first level actor errors are wrapped as remote
-                if platform.system() == 'Windows':
+                if is_win():
 
                     # windows is often too slow and cancellation seems
                     # to happen before an actor is spawned
                     if isinstance(subexc, trio.Cancelled):
                         continue
-                    else:
+
+                    elif isinstance(subexc, tractor.RemoteActorError):
                         # on windows it seems we can't exactly be sure wtf
                         # will happen..
                         assert subexc.type in (
                             tractor.RemoteActorError,
                             trio.Cancelled,
-                            trio.MultiError
+                            BaseExceptionGroup,
                         )
+
+                    elif isinstance(subexc, BaseExceptionGroup):
+                        for subsub in subexc.exceptions:
+
+                            if subsub in (tractor.RemoteActorError,):
+                                subsub = subsub.type
+
+                            assert type(subsub) in (
+                                trio.Cancelled,
+                                BaseExceptionGroup,
+                            )
                 else:
                     assert isinstance(subexc, tractor.RemoteActorError)
 
@@ -361,14 +428,21 @@ async def test_nested_multierrors(loglevel, start_method):
                     # XXX not sure what's up with this..
                     # on windows sometimes spawning is just too slow and
                     # we get back the (sent) cancel signal instead
-                    if platform.system() == 'Windows':
-                        assert (subexc.type is trio.MultiError) or (
-                            subexc.type is tractor.RemoteActorError)
+                    if is_win():
+                        if isinstance(subexc, tractor.RemoteActorError):
+                            assert subexc.type in (
+                                BaseExceptionGroup,
+                                tractor.RemoteActorError
+                            )
+                        else:
+                            assert isinstance(subexc, BaseExceptionGroup)
                     else:
-                        assert subexc.type is trio.MultiError
+                        assert subexc.type is ExceptionGroup
                 else:
-                    assert (subexc.type is tractor.RemoteActorError) or (
-                        subexc.type is trio.Cancelled)
+                    assert subexc.type in (
+                        tractor.RemoteActorError,
+                        trio.Cancelled
+                    )
 
 
 @no_windows
@@ -386,13 +460,13 @@ def test_cancel_via_SIGINT(
         with trio.fail_after(2):
             async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
                 await tn.start_actor('sucka')
-                if spawn_backend == 'mp':
+                if 'mp' in spawn_backend:
                     time.sleep(0.1)
                 os.kill(pid, signal.SIGINT)
                 await trio.sleep_forever()
 
     with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
-        tractor.run(main)
+        trio.run(main)
 
 
 @no_windows
@@ -406,6 +480,9 @@ def test_cancel_via_SIGINT_other_task(
     from a seperate ``trio`` child  task.
     """
     pid = os.getpid()
+    timeout: float = 2
+    if is_win():  # smh
+        timeout += 1
 
     async def spawn_and_sleep_forever(task_status=trio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED):
         async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
@@ -419,16 +496,15 @@ def test_cancel_via_SIGINT_other_task(
 
     async def main():
         # should never timeout since SIGINT should cancel the current program
-        with trio.fail_after(2):
+        with trio.fail_after(timeout):
             async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
                 await n.start(spawn_and_sleep_forever)
-                if spawn_backend == 'mp':
+                if 'mp' in spawn_backend:
                     time.sleep(0.1)
                 os.kill(pid, signal.SIGINT)
 
     with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
-        tractor.run(main)
-
+        trio.run(main)
 
 
 async def spin_for(period=3):
@@ -438,7 +514,7 @@ async def spin_for(period=3):
 
 async def spawn():
     async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
-        portal = await tn.run_in_actor(
+        await tn.run_in_actor(
             spin_for,
             name='sleeper',
         )
@@ -460,7 +536,7 @@ def test_cancel_while_childs_child_in_sync_sleep(
     async def main():
         with trio.fail_after(2):
             async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
-                portal = await tn.run_in_actor(
+                await tn.run_in_actor(
                     spawn,
                     name='spawn',
                 )
@@ -468,4 +544,58 @@ def test_cancel_while_childs_child_in_sync_sleep(
                 assert 0
 
     with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
-        tractor.run(main)
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_fast_graceful_cancel_when_spawn_task_in_soft_proc_wait_for_daemon(
+    start_method,
+):
+    '''
+    This is a very subtle test which demonstrates how cancellation
+    during process collection can result in non-optimal teardown
+    performance on daemon actors. The fix for this test was to handle
+    ``trio.Cancelled`` specially in the spawn task waiting in
+    `proc.wait()` such that ``Portal.cancel_actor()`` is called before
+    executing the "hard reap" sequence (which has an up to 3 second
+    delay currently).
+
+    In other words, if we can cancel the actor using a graceful remote
+    cancellation, and it's faster, we might as well do it.
+
+    '''
+    kbi_delay = 0.5
+    timeout: float = 2.9
+
+    if is_win():  # smh
+        timeout += 1
+
+    async def main():
+        start = time.time()
+        try:
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as nurse:
+                async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
+                    p = await tn.start_actor(
+                        'fast_boi',
+                        enable_modules=[__name__],
+                    )
+
+                    async def delayed_kbi():
+                        await trio.sleep(kbi_delay)
+                        print(f'RAISING KBI after {kbi_delay} s')
+                        raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+                    # start task which raises a kbi **after**
+                    # the actor nursery ``__aexit__()`` has
+                    # been run.
+                    nurse.start_soon(delayed_kbi)
+
+                    await p.run(do_nuthin)
+        finally:
+            duration = time.time() - start
+            if duration > timeout:
+                raise trio.TooSlowError(
+                    'daemon cancel was slower then necessary..'
+                )
+
+    with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
+        trio.run(main)

tests/test_child_manages_service_nursery.py

@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+'''
+Test a service style daemon that maintains a nursery for spawning
+"remote async tasks" including both spawning other long living
+sub-sub-actor daemons.
+
+'''
+from typing import Optional
+import asyncio
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager as acm
+
+import pytest
+import trio
+from trio_typing import TaskStatus
+import tractor
+from tractor import RemoteActorError
+from async_generator import aclosing
+
+
+async def aio_streamer(
+    from_trio: asyncio.Queue,
+    to_trio: trio.abc.SendChannel,
+) -> trio.abc.ReceiveChannel:
+
+    # required first msg to sync caller
+    to_trio.send_nowait(None)
+
+    from itertools import cycle
+    for i in cycle(range(10)):
+        to_trio.send_nowait(i)
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
+
+
+async def trio_streamer():
+    from itertools import cycle
+    for i in cycle(range(10)):
+        yield i
+        await trio.sleep(0.01)
+
+
+async def trio_sleep_and_err(delay: float = 0.5):
+    await trio.sleep(delay)
+    # name error
+    doggy()  # noqa
+
+
+_cached_stream: Optional[
+    trio.abc.ReceiveChannel
+] = None
+
+
+@acm
+async def wrapper_mngr(
+):
+    from tractor.trionics import broadcast_receiver
+    global _cached_stream
+    in_aio = tractor.current_actor().is_infected_aio()
+
+    if in_aio:
+        if _cached_stream:
+
+            from_aio = _cached_stream
+
+            # if we already have a cached feed deliver a rx side clone
+            # to consumer
+            async with broadcast_receiver(from_aio, 6) as from_aio:
+                yield from_aio
+                return
+        else:
+            async with tractor.to_asyncio.open_channel_from(
+                aio_streamer,
+            ) as (first, from_aio):
+                assert not first
+
+                # cache it so next task uses broadcast receiver
+                _cached_stream = from_aio
+
+                yield from_aio
+    else:
+        async with aclosing(trio_streamer()) as stream:
+            # cache it so next task uses broadcast receiver
+            _cached_stream = stream
+            yield stream
+
+
+_nursery: trio.Nursery = None
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def trio_main(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+):
+    # sync
+    await ctx.started()
+
+    # stash a "service nursery" as "actor local" (aka a Python global)
+    global _nursery
+    n = _nursery
+    assert n
+
+    async def consume_stream():
+        async with wrapper_mngr() as stream:
+            async for msg in stream:
+                print(msg)
+
+    # run 2 tasks to ensure broadcaster chan use
+    n.start_soon(consume_stream)
+    n.start_soon(consume_stream)
+
+    n.start_soon(trio_sleep_and_err)
+
+    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def open_actor_local_nursery(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+):
+    global _nursery
+    async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+        _nursery = n
+        await ctx.started()
+        await trio.sleep(10)
+        # await trio.sleep(1)
+
+        # XXX: this causes the hang since
+        # the caller does not unblock from its own
+        # ``trio.sleep_forever()``.
+
+        # TODO: we need to test a simple ctx task starting remote tasks
+        # that error and then blocking on a ``Nursery.start()`` which
+        # never yields back.. aka a scenario where the
+        # ``tractor.context`` task IS NOT in the service n's cancel
+        # scope.
+        n.cancel_scope.cancel()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'asyncio_mode',
+    [True, False],
+    ids='asyncio_mode={}'.format,
+)
+def test_actor_managed_trio_nursery_task_error_cancels_aio(
+    asyncio_mode: bool,
+    arb_addr
+):
+    '''
+    Verify that a ``trio`` nursery created managed in a child actor
+    correctly relays errors to the parent actor when one of its spawned
+    tasks errors even when running in infected asyncio mode and using
+    broadcast receivers for multi-task-per-actor subscription.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+
+        # cancel the nursery shortly after boot
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            p = await n.start_actor(
+                'nursery_mngr',
+                infect_asyncio=asyncio_mode,
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+            async with (
+                p.open_context(open_actor_local_nursery) as (ctx, first),
+                p.open_context(trio_main) as (ctx, first),
+            ):
+                await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+    with pytest.raises(RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+    # verify boxed error
+    err = excinfo.value
+    assert isinstance(err.type(), NameError)

tests/test_clustering.py

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+import itertools
+
+import pytest
+import trio
+import tractor
+from tractor import open_actor_cluster
+from tractor.trionics import gather_contexts
+
+from conftest import tractor_test
+
+
+MESSAGE = 'tractoring at full speed'
+
+
+def test_empty_mngrs_input_raises() -> None:
+
+    async def main():
+        with trio.fail_after(1):
+            async with (
+                open_actor_cluster(
+                    modules=[__name__],
+
+                    # NOTE: ensure we can passthrough runtime opts
+                    loglevel='info',
+                    # debug_mode=True,
+
+                ) as portals,
+
+                gather_contexts(
+                    # NOTE: it's the use of inline-generator syntax
+                    # here that causes the empty input.
+                    mngrs=(
+                        p.open_context(worker) for p in portals.values()
+                    ),
+                ),
+            ):
+                assert 0
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def worker(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    await ctx.started()
+
+    async with ctx.open_stream(
+        backpressure=True,
+    ) as stream:
+
+        # TODO: this with the below assert causes a hang bug?
+        # with trio.move_on_after(1):
+
+        async for msg in stream:
+            # do something with msg
+            print(msg)
+            assert msg == MESSAGE
+
+        # TODO: does this ever cause a hang
+        # assert 0
+
+
+@tractor_test
+async def test_streaming_to_actor_cluster() -> None:
+
+    async with (
+        open_actor_cluster(modules=[__name__]) as portals,
+
+        gather_contexts(
+            mngrs=[p.open_context(worker) for p in portals.values()],
+        ) as contexts,
+
+        gather_contexts(
+            mngrs=[ctx[0].open_stream() for ctx in contexts],
+        ) as streams,
+
+    ):
+        with trio.move_on_after(1):
+            for stream in itertools.cycle(streams):
+                await stream.send(MESSAGE)

tests/test_context_stream_semantics.py

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+'''
+``async with ():`` inlined context-stream cancellation testing.
+
+Verify the we raise errors when streams are opened prior to sync-opening
+a ``tractor.Context`` beforehand.
+
+'''
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager as acm
+from itertools import count
+import platform
+from typing import Optional
+
+import pytest
+import trio
+import tractor
+from tractor._exceptions import StreamOverrun
+
+from conftest import tractor_test
+
+# ``Context`` semantics are as follows,
+#  ------------------------------------
+
+# - standard setup/teardown:
+#   ``Portal.open_context()`` starts a new
+#   remote task context in another actor. The target actor's task must
+#   call ``Context.started()`` to unblock this entry on the caller side.
+#   the callee task executes until complete and returns a final value
+#   which is delivered to the caller side and retreived via
+#   ``Context.result()``.
+
+# - cancel termination:
+#   context can be cancelled on either side where either end's task can
+#   call ``Context.cancel()`` which raises a local ``trio.Cancelled``
+#   and sends a task cancel request to the remote task which in turn
+#   raises a ``trio.Cancelled`` in that scope, catches it, and re-raises
+#   as ``ContextCancelled``. This is then caught by
+#   ``Portal.open_context()``'s exit and we get a graceful termination
+#   of the linked tasks.
+
+# - error termination:
+#   error is caught after all context-cancel-scope tasks are cancelled
+#   via regular ``trio`` cancel scope semantics, error is sent to other
+#   side and unpacked as a `RemoteActorError`.
+
+
+# ``Context.open_stream() as stream: MsgStream:`` msg semantics are:
+#  -----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# - either side can ``.send()`` which emits a 'yield' msgs and delivers
+#   a value to the a ``MsgStream.receive()`` call.
+
+# - stream closure: one end relays a 'stop' message which terminates an
+#   ongoing ``MsgStream`` iteration.
+
+# - cancel/error termination: as per the context semantics above but
+#   with implicit stream closure on the cancelling end.
+
+
+_state: bool = False
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def too_many_starteds(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Call ``Context.started()`` more then once (an error).
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+    try:
+        await ctx.started()
+    except RuntimeError:
+        raise
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def not_started_but_stream_opened(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Enter ``Context.open_stream()`` without calling ``.started()``.
+
+    '''
+    try:
+        async with ctx.open_stream():
+            assert 0
+    except RuntimeError:
+        raise
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'target',
+    [too_many_starteds, not_started_but_stream_opened],
+    ids='misuse_type={}'.format,
+)
+def test_started_misuse(target):
+
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
+                target.__name__,
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+
+            async with portal.open_context(target) as (ctx, sent):
+                await trio.sleep(1)
+
+    with pytest.raises(tractor.RemoteActorError):
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def simple_setup_teardown(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    data: int,
+    block_forever: bool = False,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    # startup phase
+    global _state
+    _state = True
+
+    # signal to parent that we're up
+    await ctx.started(data + 1)
+
+    try:
+        if block_forever:
+            # block until cancelled
+            await trio.sleep_forever()
+        else:
+            return 'yo'
+    finally:
+        _state = False
+
+
+async def assert_state(value: bool):
+    global _state
+    assert _state == value
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'error_parent',
+    [False, ValueError, KeyboardInterrupt],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'callee_blocks_forever',
+    [False, True],
+    ids=lambda item: f'callee_blocks_forever={item}'
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'pointlessly_open_stream',
+    [False, True],
+    ids=lambda item: f'open_stream={item}'
+)
+def test_simple_context(
+    error_parent,
+    callee_blocks_forever,
+    pointlessly_open_stream,
+):
+
+    timeout = 1.5 if not platform.system() == 'Windows' else 4
+
+    async def main():
+
+        with trio.fail_after(timeout):
+            async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
+
+                portal = await nursery.start_actor(
+                    'simple_context',
+                    enable_modules=[__name__],
+                )
+
+                try:
+                    async with portal.open_context(
+                        simple_setup_teardown,
+                        data=10,
+                        block_forever=callee_blocks_forever,
+                    ) as (ctx, sent):
+
+                        assert sent == 11
+
+                        if callee_blocks_forever:
+                            await portal.run(assert_state, value=True)
+                        else:
+                            assert await ctx.result() == 'yo'
+
+                        if not error_parent:
+                            await ctx.cancel()
+
+                        if pointlessly_open_stream:
+                            async with ctx.open_stream():
+                                if error_parent:
+                                    raise error_parent
+
+                                if callee_blocks_forever:
+                                    await ctx.cancel()
+                                else:
+                                    # in this case the stream will send a
+                                    # 'stop' msg to the far end which needs
+                                    # to be ignored
+                                    pass
+                        else:
+                            if error_parent:
+                                raise error_parent
+
+                finally:
+
+                    # after cancellation
+                    if not error_parent:
+                        await portal.run(assert_state, value=False)
+
+                    # shut down daemon
+                    await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+    if error_parent:
+        try:
+            trio.run(main)
+        except error_parent:
+            pass
+        except trio.MultiError as me:
+            # XXX: on windows it seems we may have to expect the group error
+            from tractor._exceptions import is_multi_cancelled
+            assert is_multi_cancelled(me)
+    else:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+# basic stream terminations:
+# - callee context closes without using stream
+# - caller context closes without using stream
+# - caller context calls `Context.cancel()` while streaming
+#   is ongoing resulting in callee being cancelled
+# - callee calls `Context.cancel()` while streaming and caller
+#   sees stream terminated in `RemoteActorError`
+
+# TODO: future possible features
+# - restart request: far end raises `ContextRestart`
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def close_ctx_immediately(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    await ctx.started()
+    global _state
+
+    async with ctx.open_stream():
+        pass
+
+
+@tractor_test
+async def test_callee_closes_ctx_after_stream_open():
+    'callee context closes without using stream'
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            'fast_stream_closer',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+
+        with trio.fail_after(2):
+            async with portal.open_context(
+                close_ctx_immediately,
+
+                # flag to avoid waiting the final result
+                # cancel_on_exit=True,
+
+            ) as (ctx, sent):
+
+                assert sent is None
+
+                with trio.fail_after(0.5):
+                    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                        # should fall through since ``StopAsyncIteration``
+                        # should be raised through translation of
+                        # a ``trio.EndOfChannel`` by
+                        # ``trio.abc.ReceiveChannel.__anext__()``
+                        async for _ in stream:
+                            assert 0
+                        else:
+
+                            # verify stream is now closed
+                            try:
+                                await stream.receive()
+                            except trio.EndOfChannel:
+                                pass
+
+                # TODO: should be just raise the closed resource err
+                # directly here to enforce not allowing a re-open
+                # of a stream to the context (at least until a time of
+                # if/when we decide that's a good idea?)
+                try:
+                    with trio.fail_after(0.5):
+                        async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+                            pass
+                except trio.ClosedResourceError:
+                    pass
+
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def expect_cancelled(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+    global _state
+    _state = True
+
+    await ctx.started()
+
+    try:
+        async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+            async for msg in stream:
+                await stream.send(msg)  # echo server
+
+    except trio.Cancelled:
+        # expected case
+        _state = False
+        raise
+
+    else:
+        assert 0, "Wasn't cancelled!?"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'use_ctx_cancel_method',
+    [False, True],
+)
+@tractor_test
+async def test_caller_closes_ctx_after_callee_opens_stream(
+    use_ctx_cancel_method: bool,
+):
+    'caller context closes without using stream'
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            'ctx_cancelled',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+
+        async with portal.open_context(
+            expect_cancelled,
+        ) as (ctx, sent):
+            await portal.run(assert_state, value=True)
+
+            assert sent is None
+
+            # call cancel explicitly
+            if use_ctx_cancel_method:
+
+                await ctx.cancel()
+
+                try:
+                    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+                        async for msg in stream:
+                            pass
+
+                except tractor.ContextCancelled:
+                    raise  # XXX: must be propagated to __aexit__
+
+                else:
+                    assert 0, "Should have context cancelled?"
+
+                # channel should still be up
+                assert portal.channel.connected()
+
+                # ctx is closed here
+                await portal.run(assert_state, value=False)
+
+            else:
+                try:
+                    with trio.fail_after(0.2):
+                        await ctx.result()
+                        assert 0, "Callee should have blocked!?"
+                except trio.TooSlowError:
+                    await ctx.cancel()
+        try:
+            async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+                async for msg in stream:
+                    pass
+        except tractor.ContextCancelled:
+            pass
+        else:
+            assert 0, "Should have received closed resource error?"
+
+        # ctx is closed here
+        await portal.run(assert_state, value=False)
+
+        # channel should not have been destroyed yet, only the
+        # inter-actor-task context
+        assert portal.channel.connected()
+
+        # teardown the actor
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+@tractor_test
+async def test_multitask_caller_cancels_from_nonroot_task():
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            'ctx_cancelled',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+
+        async with portal.open_context(
+            expect_cancelled,
+        ) as (ctx, sent):
+
+            await portal.run(assert_state, value=True)
+            assert sent is None
+
+            async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+                async def send_msg_then_cancel():
+                    await stream.send('yo')
+                    await portal.run(assert_state, value=True)
+                    await ctx.cancel()
+                    await portal.run(assert_state, value=False)
+
+                async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+                    n.start_soon(send_msg_then_cancel)
+
+                    try:
+                        async for msg in stream:
+                            assert msg == 'yo'
+
+                    except tractor.ContextCancelled:
+                        raise  # XXX: must be propagated to __aexit__
+
+                # channel should still be up
+                assert portal.channel.connected()
+
+                # ctx is closed here
+                await portal.run(assert_state, value=False)
+
+        # channel should not have been destroyed yet, only the
+        # inter-actor-task context
+        assert portal.channel.connected()
+
+        # teardown the actor
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def cancel_self(
+
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+    global _state
+    _state = True
+
+    await ctx.cancel()
+
+    # should inline raise immediately
+    try:
+        async with ctx.open_stream():
+            pass
+    except tractor.ContextCancelled:
+        # suppress for now so we can do checkpoint tests below
+        pass
+    else:
+        raise RuntimeError('Context didnt cancel itself?!')
+
+    # check a real ``trio.Cancelled`` is raised on a checkpoint
+    try:
+        with trio.fail_after(0.1):
+            await trio.sleep_forever()
+    except trio.Cancelled:
+        raise
+
+    except trio.TooSlowError:
+        # should never get here
+        assert 0
+
+
+@tractor_test
+async def test_callee_cancels_before_started():
+    '''
+    Callee calls `Context.cancel()` while streaming and caller
+    sees stream terminated in `ContextCancelled`.
+
+    '''
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            'cancels_self',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+        try:
+
+            async with portal.open_context(
+                cancel_self,
+            ) as (ctx, sent):
+                async with ctx.open_stream():
+
+                    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+        # raises a special cancel signal
+        except tractor.ContextCancelled as ce:
+            ce.type == trio.Cancelled
+
+            # the traceback should be informative
+            assert 'cancelled itself' in ce.msgdata['tb_str']
+
+        # teardown the actor
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def never_open_stream(
+
+    ctx:  tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Context which never opens a stream and blocks.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def keep_sending_from_callee(
+
+    ctx:  tractor.Context,
+    msg_buffer_size: Optional[int] = None,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Send endlessly on the calleee stream.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+    async with ctx.open_stream(
+        msg_buffer_size=msg_buffer_size,
+    ) as stream:
+        for msg in count():
+            print(f'callee sending {msg}')
+            await stream.send(msg)
+            await trio.sleep(0.01)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'overrun_by',
+    [
+        ('caller', 1, never_open_stream),
+        ('cancel_caller_during_overrun', 1, never_open_stream),
+        ('callee', 0, keep_sending_from_callee),
+    ],
+    ids='overrun_condition={}'.format,
+)
+def test_one_end_stream_not_opened(overrun_by):
+    '''
+    This should exemplify the bug from:
+    https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/265
+
+    '''
+    overrunner, buf_size_increase, entrypoint = overrun_by
+    from tractor._runtime import Actor
+    buf_size = buf_size_increase + Actor.msg_buffer_size
+
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
+                entrypoint.__name__,
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+
+            async with portal.open_context(
+                entrypoint,
+            ) as (ctx, sent):
+                assert sent is None
+
+                if 'caller' in overrunner:
+
+                    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+                        for i in range(buf_size):
+                            print(f'sending {i}')
+                            await stream.send(i)
+
+                        if 'cancel' in overrunner:
+                            # without this we block waiting on the child side
+                            await ctx.cancel()
+
+                        else:
+                            # expect overrun error to be relayed back
+                            # and this sleep interrupted
+                            await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+                else:
+                    # callee overruns caller case so we do nothing here
+                    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+            await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+    # 2 overrun cases and the no overrun case (which pushes right up to
+    # the msg limit)
+    if overrunner == 'caller' or 'cance' in overrunner:
+        with pytest.raises(tractor.RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+            trio.run(main)
+
+        assert excinfo.value.type == StreamOverrun
+
+    elif overrunner == 'callee':
+        with pytest.raises(tractor.RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+            trio.run(main)
+
+        # TODO: embedded remote errors so that we can verify the source
+        # error? the callee delivers an error which is an overrun
+        # wrapped in a remote actor error.
+        assert excinfo.value.type == tractor.RemoteActorError
+
+    else:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def echo_back_sequence(
+
+    ctx:  tractor.Context,
+    seq: list[int],
+    msg_buffer_size: Optional[int] = None,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Send endlessly on the calleee stream.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+    async with ctx.open_stream(
+        msg_buffer_size=msg_buffer_size,
+    ) as stream:
+
+        seq = list(seq)  # bleh, `msgpack`...
+        count = 0
+        while count < 3:
+            batch = []
+            async for msg in stream:
+                batch.append(msg)
+                if batch == seq:
+                    break
+
+            for msg in batch:
+                print(f'callee sending {msg}')
+                await stream.send(msg)
+
+            count += 1
+
+        return 'yo'
+
+
+def test_stream_backpressure():
+    '''
+    Demonstrate small overruns of each task back and forth
+    on a stream not raising any errors by default.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
+                'callee_sends_forever',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+            seq = list(range(3))
+            async with portal.open_context(
+                echo_back_sequence,
+                seq=seq,
+                msg_buffer_size=1,
+            ) as (ctx, sent):
+                assert sent is None
+
+                async with ctx.open_stream(msg_buffer_size=1) as stream:
+                    count = 0
+                    while count < 3:
+                        for msg in seq:
+                            print(f'caller sending {msg}')
+                            await stream.send(msg)
+                            await trio.sleep(0.1)
+
+                        batch = []
+                        async for msg in stream:
+                            batch.append(msg)
+                            if batch == seq:
+                                break
+
+                        count += 1
+
+            # here the context should return
+            assert await ctx.result() == 'yo'
+
+            # cancel the daemon
+            await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def sleep_forever(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+) -> None:
+    await ctx.started()
+    async with ctx.open_stream():
+        await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+@acm
+async def attach_to_sleep_forever():
+    '''
+    Cancel a context **before** any underlying error is raised in order
+    to trigger a local reception of a ``ContextCancelled`` which **should not**
+    be re-raised in the local surrounding ``Context`` *iff* the cancel was
+    requested by **this** side of the context.
+
+    '''
+    async with tractor.wait_for_actor('sleeper') as p2:
+        async with (
+            p2.open_context(sleep_forever) as (peer_ctx, first),
+            peer_ctx.open_stream(),
+        ):
+            try:
+                yield
+            finally:
+                # XXX: previously this would trigger local
+                # ``ContextCancelled`` to be received and raised in the
+                # local context overriding any local error due to
+                # logic inside ``_invoke()`` which checked for
+                # an error set on ``Context._error`` and raised it in
+                # under a cancellation scenario.
+
+                # The problem is you can have a remote cancellation
+                # that is part of a local error and we shouldn't raise
+                # ``ContextCancelled`` **iff** we weren't the side of
+                # the context to initiate it, i.e.
+                # ``Context._cancel_called`` should **NOT** have been
+                # set. The special logic to handle this case is now
+                # inside ``Context._may_raise_from_remote_msg()`` XD
+                await peer_ctx.cancel()
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def error_before_started(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    This simulates exactly an original bug discovered in:
+    https://github.com/pikers/piker/issues/244
+
+    '''
+    async with attach_to_sleep_forever():
+        # send an unserializable type which should raise a type error
+        # here and **NOT BE SWALLOWED** by the surrounding acm!!?!
+        await ctx.started(object())
+
+
+def test_do_not_swallow_error_before_started_by_remote_contextcancelled():
+    '''
+    Verify that an error raised in a remote context which itself opens another
+    remote context, which it cancels, does not ovverride the original error that
+    caused the cancellation of the secondardy context.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
+                'errorer',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+            await n.start_actor(
+                'sleeper',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+            )
+
+            async with (
+                portal.open_context(
+                    error_before_started
+                ) as (ctx, sent),
+            ):
+                await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+    with pytest.raises(tractor.RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+    assert excinfo.value.type == TypeError

tests/test_discovery.py

@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ async def test_reg_then_unreg(arb_addr):
     assert actor.is_arbiter
     assert len(actor._registry) == 1  # only self is registered
 
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
-        portal = await n.start_actor('actor', rpc_module_paths=[__name__])
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+    ) as n:
+
+        portal = await n.start_actor('actor', enable_modules=[__name__])
         uid = portal.channel.uid
 
         async with tractor.get_arbiter(*arb_addr) as aportal:
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ async def test_reg_then_unreg(arb_addr):
 
         await trio.sleep(0.1)
         assert uid not in aportal.actor._registry
-        sockaddrs = actor._registry[uid]
+        sockaddrs = actor._registry.get(uid)
         assert not sockaddrs
 
 
@@ -66,7 +69,7 @@ async def say_hello_use_wait(other_actor):
 
 @tractor_test
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('func', [say_hello, say_hello_use_wait])
-async def test_trynamic_trio(func, start_method):
+async def test_trynamic_trio(func, start_method, arb_addr):
     """Main tractor entry point, the "master" process (for now
     acts as the "director").
     """
@@ -108,8 +111,23 @@ async def cancel(use_signal, delay=0):
 
 
 async def stream_from(portal):
-    async for value in await portal.result():
-        print(value)
+    async with portal.open_stream_from(stream_forever) as stream:
+        async for value in stream:
+            print(value)
+
+
+async def unpack_reg(actor_or_portal):
+    '''
+    Get and unpack a "registry" RPC request from the "arbiter" registry
+    system.
+
+    '''
+    if getattr(actor_or_portal, 'get_registry', None):
+        msg = await actor_or_portal.get_registry()
+    else:
+        msg = await actor_or_portal.run_from_ns('self', 'get_registry')
+
+    return {tuple(key.split('.')): val for key, val in msg.items()}
 
 
 async def spawn_and_check_registry(
@@ -117,73 +135,77 @@ async def spawn_and_check_registry(
     use_signal: bool,
     remote_arbiter: bool = False,
     with_streaming: bool = False,
+
 ) -> None:
-    actor = tractor.current_actor()
 
-    if remote_arbiter:
-        assert not actor.is_arbiter
+    async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+    ):
+        async with tractor.get_arbiter(*arb_addr) as portal:
+            # runtime needs to be up to call this
+            actor = tractor.current_actor()
 
-    async with tractor.get_arbiter(*arb_addr) as portal:
+            if remote_arbiter:
+                assert not actor.is_arbiter
 
-        if actor.is_arbiter:
+            if actor.is_arbiter:
+                extra = 1  # arbiter is local root actor
+                get_reg = partial(unpack_reg, actor)
 
-            async def get_reg():
-                return actor._registry
+            else:
+                get_reg = partial(unpack_reg, portal)
+                extra = 2  # local root actor + remote arbiter
 
-            extra = 1  # arbiter is local root actor
-        else:
-            get_reg = partial(portal.run_from_ns, 'self', 'get_registry')
-            extra = 2  # local root actor + remote arbiter
+            # ensure current actor is registered
+            registry = await get_reg()
+            assert actor.uid in registry
 
-        # ensure current actor is registered
-        registry = await get_reg()
-        assert actor.uid in registry
-
-        if with_streaming:
-            to_run = stream_forever
-        else:
-            to_run = trio.sleep_forever
-
-        async with trio.open_nursery() as trion:
             try:
                 async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
-                    portals = {}
-                    for i in range(3):
-                        name = f'a{i}'
-                        portals[name] = await n.run_in_actor(to_run, name=name)
+                    async with trio.open_nursery() as trion:
 
-                    # wait on last actor to come up
-                    async with tractor.wait_for_actor(name):
-                        registry = await get_reg()
-                        for uid in n._children:
-                            assert uid in registry
+                        portals = {}
+                        for i in range(3):
+                            name = f'a{i}'
+                            if with_streaming:
+                                portals[name] = await n.start_actor(
+                                    name=name, enable_modules=[__name__])
 
-                    assert len(portals) + extra == len(registry)
+                            else:  # no streaming
+                                portals[name] = await n.run_in_actor(
+                                    trio.sleep_forever, name=name)
 
-                    if with_streaming:
-                        await trio.sleep(0.1)
+                        # wait on last actor to come up
+                        async with tractor.wait_for_actor(name):
+                            registry = await get_reg()
+                            for uid in n._children:
+                                assert uid in registry
 
-                        pts = list(portals.values())
-                        for p in pts[:-1]:
-                            trion.start_soon(stream_from, p)
+                        assert len(portals) + extra == len(registry)
 
-                        # stream for 1 sec
-                        trion.start_soon(cancel, use_signal, 1)
+                        if with_streaming:
+                            await trio.sleep(0.1)
 
-                        last_p = pts[-1]
-                        async for value in await last_p.result():
-                            print(value)
-                    else:
-                        await cancel(use_signal)
+                            pts = list(portals.values())
+                            for p in pts[:-1]:
+                                trion.start_soon(stream_from, p)
+
+                            # stream for 1 sec
+                            trion.start_soon(cancel, use_signal, 1)
+
+                            last_p = pts[-1]
+                            await stream_from(last_p)
+
+                        else:
+                            await cancel(use_signal)
 
             finally:
-                with trio.CancelScope(shield=True):
-                    await trio.sleep(0.5)
+                await trio.sleep(0.5)
 
-                    # all subactors should have de-registered
-                    registry = await get_reg()
-                    assert len(registry) == extra
-                    assert actor.uid in registry
+                # all subactors should have de-registered
+                registry = await get_reg()
+                assert len(registry) == extra
+                assert actor.uid in registry
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('use_signal', [False, True])
@@ -198,7 +220,7 @@ def test_subactors_unregister_on_cancel(
     deregistering themselves with the arbiter.
     """
     with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
-        tractor.run(
+        trio.run(
             partial(
                 spawn_and_check_registry,
                 arb_addr,
@@ -206,7 +228,6 @@ def test_subactors_unregister_on_cancel(
                 remote_arbiter=False,
                 with_streaming=with_streaming,
             ),
-            arbiter_addr=arb_addr
         )
 
 
@@ -224,7 +245,7 @@ def test_subactors_unregister_on_cancel_remote_daemon(
     tree) arbiter.
     """
     with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
-        tractor.run(
+        trio.run(
             partial(
                 spawn_and_check_registry,
                 arb_addr,
@@ -232,8 +253,6 @@ def test_subactors_unregister_on_cancel_remote_daemon(
                 remote_arbiter=True,
                 with_streaming=with_streaming,
             ),
-            # XXX: required to use remote daemon!
-            arbiter_addr=arb_addr
         )
 
 
@@ -255,47 +274,55 @@ async def close_chans_before_nursery(
     else:
         entries_at_end = 1
 
-    async with tractor.get_arbiter(*arb_addr) as aportal:
-        try:
-            get_reg = partial(aportal.run_from_ns, 'self', 'get_registry')
+    async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+    ):
+        async with tractor.get_arbiter(*arb_addr) as aportal:
+            try:
+                get_reg = partial(unpack_reg, aportal)
 
-            async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
-                portal1 = await tn.run_in_actor(
-                    stream_forever,
-                    name='consumer1',
-                )
-                agen1 = await portal1.result()
+                async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
+                    portal1 = await tn.start_actor(
+                        name='consumer1', enable_modules=[__name__])
+                    portal2 = await tn.start_actor(
+                        'consumer2', enable_modules=[__name__])
 
-                portal2 = await tn.start_actor('consumer2', rpc_module_paths=[__name__])
-                agen2 = await portal2.run(stream_forever)
+                    # TODO: compact this back as was in last commit once
+                    # 3.9+, see https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/207
+                    async with portal1.open_stream_from(
+                        stream_forever
+                    ) as agen1:
+                        async with portal2.open_stream_from(
+                            stream_forever
+                        ) as agen2:
+                            async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+                                n.start_soon(streamer, agen1)
+                                n.start_soon(cancel, use_signal, .5)
+                                try:
+                                    await streamer(agen2)
+                                finally:
+                                    # Kill the root nursery thus resulting in
+                                    # normal arbiter channel ops to fail during
+                                    # teardown. It doesn't seem like this is
+                                    # reliably triggered by an external SIGINT.
+                                    # tractor.current_actor()._root_nursery.cancel_scope.cancel()
 
-                async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
-                    n.start_soon(streamer, agen1)
-                    n.start_soon(cancel, use_signal, .5)
-                    try:
-                        await streamer(agen2)
-                    finally:
-                        # Kill the root nursery thus resulting in
-                        # normal arbiter channel ops to fail during
-                        # teardown. It doesn't seem like this is
-                        # reliably triggered by an external SIGINT.
-                        # tractor.current_actor()._root_nursery.cancel_scope.cancel()
+                                    # XXX: THIS IS THE KEY THING that
+                                    # happens **before** exiting the
+                                    # actor nursery block
 
-                        # XXX: THIS IS THE KEY THING that happens
-                        # **before** exiting the actor nursery block
+                                    # also kill off channels cuz why not
+                                    await agen1.aclose()
+                                    await agen2.aclose()
+            finally:
+                with trio.CancelScope(shield=True):
+                    await trio.sleep(1)
 
-                        # also kill off channels cuz why not
-                        await agen1.aclose()
-                        await agen2.aclose()
-        finally:
-            with trio.CancelScope(shield=True):
-                await trio.sleep(.5)
-
-                # all subactors should have de-registered
-                registry = await get_reg()
-                assert portal1.channel.uid not in registry
-                assert portal2.channel.uid not in registry
-                assert len(registry) == entries_at_end
+                    # all subactors should have de-registered
+                    registry = await get_reg()
+                    assert portal1.channel.uid not in registry
+                    assert portal2.channel.uid not in registry
+                    assert len(registry) == entries_at_end
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('use_signal', [False, True])
@@ -309,15 +336,13 @@ def test_close_channel_explicit(
     results in subactor(s) deregistering from the arbiter.
     """
     with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
-        tractor.run(
+        trio.run(
             partial(
                 close_chans_before_nursery,
                 arb_addr,
                 use_signal,
                 remote_arbiter=False,
             ),
-            # XXX: required to use remote daemon!
-            arbiter_addr=arb_addr
         )
 
 
@@ -333,13 +358,11 @@ def test_close_channel_explicit_remote_arbiter(
     results in subactor(s) deregistering from the arbiter.
     """
     with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
-        tractor.run(
+        trio.run(
             partial(
                 close_chans_before_nursery,
                 arb_addr,
                 use_signal,
                 remote_arbiter=True,
             ),
-            # XXX: required to use remote daemon!
-            arbiter_addr=arb_addr
         )

tests/test_docs_examples.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-"""
+'''
 Let's make sure them docs work yah?
-"""
+
+'''
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 import itertools
 import os
@@ -11,17 +12,17 @@ import shutil
 
 import pytest
 
-from conftest import repodir
-
-
-def examples_dir():
-    """Return the abspath to the examples directory.
-    """
-    return os.path.join(repodir(), 'examples')
+from conftest import (
+    examples_dir,
+)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def run_example_in_subproc(loglevel, testdir, arb_addr):
+def run_example_in_subproc(
+    loglevel: str,
+    testdir,
+    arb_addr: tuple[str, int],
+):
 
     @contextmanager
     def run(script_code):
@@ -31,8 +32,8 @@ def run_example_in_subproc(loglevel, testdir, arb_addr):
             # on windows we need to create a special __main__.py which will
             # be executed with ``python -m <modulename>`` on windows..
             shutil.copyfile(
-                os.path.join(examples_dir(), '__main__.py'),
-                os.path.join(str(testdir), '__main__.py')
+                examples_dir() / '__main__.py',
+                str(testdir / '__main__.py'),
             )
 
             # drop the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` guard onwards from
@@ -80,12 +81,16 @@ def run_example_in_subproc(loglevel, testdir, arb_addr):
     'example_script',
 
     # walk yields: (dirpath, dirnames, filenames)
-    [(p[0], f) for p in os.walk(examples_dir()) for f in p[2]
+    [
+        (p[0], f) for p in os.walk(examples_dir()) for f in p[2]
 
         if '__' not in f
         and f[0] != '_'
         and 'debugging' not in p[0]
+        and 'integration' not in p[0]
+        and 'advanced_faults' not in p[0]
     ],
+
     ids=lambda t: t[1],
 )
 def test_example(run_example_in_subproc, example_script):
@@ -98,6 +103,10 @@ def test_example(run_example_in_subproc, example_script):
     test_example``.
     """
     ex_file = os.path.join(*example_script)
+
+    if 'rpc_bidir_streaming' in ex_file and sys.version_info < (3, 9):
+        pytest.skip("2-way streaming example requires py3.9 async with syntax")
+
     with open(ex_file, 'r') as ex:
         code = ex.read()
 
@@ -108,9 +117,19 @@ def test_example(run_example_in_subproc, example_script):
             # print(f'STDOUT: {out}')
 
             # if we get some gnarly output let's aggregate and raise
-            errmsg = err.decode()
-            errlines = errmsg.splitlines()
-            if err and 'Error' in errlines[-1]:
-                raise Exception(errmsg)
+            if err:
+                errmsg = err.decode()
+                errlines = errmsg.splitlines()
+                last_error = errlines[-1]
+                if (
+                    'Error' in last_error
+
+                    # XXX: currently we print this to console, but maybe
+                    # shouldn't eventually once we figure out what's
+                    # a better way to be explicit about aio side
+                    # cancels?
+                    and 'asyncio.exceptions.CancelledError' not in last_error
+                ):
+                    raise Exception(errmsg)
 
             assert proc.returncode == 0

tests/test_infected_asyncio.py

@@ -0,0 +1,564 @@
+'''
+The hipster way to force SC onto the stdlib's "async": 'infection mode'.
+
+'''
+from typing import Optional, Iterable, Union
+import asyncio
+import builtins
+import itertools
+import importlib
+
+from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup
+import pytest
+import trio
+import tractor
+from tractor import (
+    to_asyncio,
+    RemoteActorError,
+)
+from tractor.trionics import BroadcastReceiver
+
+
+async def sleep_and_err(
+    sleep_for: float = 0.1,
+
+    # just signature placeholders for compat with
+    # ``to_asyncio.open_channel_from()``
+    to_trio: Optional[trio.MemorySendChannel] = None,
+    from_trio: Optional[asyncio.Queue] = None,
+
+):
+    if to_trio:
+        to_trio.send_nowait('start')
+
+    await asyncio.sleep(sleep_for)
+    assert 0
+
+
+async def sleep_forever():
+    await asyncio.sleep(float('inf'))
+
+
+async def trio_cancels_single_aio_task():
+
+    # spawn an ``asyncio`` task to run a func and return result
+    with trio.move_on_after(.2):
+        await tractor.to_asyncio.run_task(sleep_forever)
+
+
+def test_trio_cancels_aio_on_actor_side(arb_addr):
+    '''
+    Spawn an infected actor that is cancelled by the ``trio`` side
+    task using std cancel scope apis.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr
+        ) as n:
+            await n.run_in_actor(
+                trio_cancels_single_aio_task,
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+async def asyncio_actor(
+
+    target: str,
+    expect_err: Optional[Exception] = None
+
+) -> None:
+
+    assert tractor.current_actor().is_infected_aio()
+    target = globals()[target]
+
+    if '.' in expect_err:
+        modpath, _, name = expect_err.rpartition('.')
+        mod = importlib.import_module(modpath)
+        error_type = getattr(mod, name)
+
+    else:  # toplevel builtin error type
+        error_type = builtins.__dict__.get(expect_err)
+
+    try:
+        # spawn an ``asyncio`` task to run a func and return result
+        await tractor.to_asyncio.run_task(target)
+
+    except BaseException as err:
+        if expect_err:
+            assert isinstance(err, error_type)
+
+        raise
+
+
+def test_aio_simple_error(arb_addr):
+    '''
+    Verify a simple remote asyncio error propagates back through trio
+    to the parent actor.
+
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr
+        ) as n:
+            await n.run_in_actor(
+                asyncio_actor,
+                target='sleep_and_err',
+                expect_err='AssertionError',
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+
+    with pytest.raises(RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+    err = excinfo.value
+    assert isinstance(err, RemoteActorError)
+    assert err.type == AssertionError
+
+
+def test_tractor_cancels_aio(arb_addr):
+    '''
+    Verify we can cancel a spawned asyncio task gracefully.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.run_in_actor(
+                asyncio_actor,
+                target='sleep_forever',
+                expect_err='trio.Cancelled',
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+            # cancel the entire remote runtime
+            await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_trio_cancels_aio(arb_addr):
+    '''
+    Much like the above test with ``tractor.Portal.cancel_actor()``
+    except we just use a standard ``trio`` cancellation api.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+
+        with trio.move_on_after(1):
+            # cancel the nursery shortly after boot
+
+            async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+                await n.run_in_actor(
+                    asyncio_actor,
+                    target='sleep_forever',
+                    expect_err='trio.Cancelled',
+                    infect_asyncio=True,
+                )
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def trio_ctx(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+):
+
+    await ctx.started('start')
+
+    # this will block until the ``asyncio`` task sends a "first"
+    # message.
+    with trio.fail_after(2):
+        async with (
+            trio.open_nursery() as n,
+
+            tractor.to_asyncio.open_channel_from(
+                sleep_and_err,
+            ) as (first, chan),
+        ):
+
+            assert first == 'start'
+
+            # spawn another asyncio task for the cuck of it.
+            n.start_soon(
+                tractor.to_asyncio.run_task,
+                sleep_forever,
+            )
+            await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'parent_cancels', [False, True],
+    ids='parent_actor_cancels_child={}'.format
+)
+def test_context_spawns_aio_task_that_errors(
+    arb_addr,
+    parent_cancels: bool,
+):
+    '''
+    Verify that spawning a task via an intertask channel ctx mngr that
+    errors correctly propagates the error back from the `asyncio`-side
+    task.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+
+        with trio.fail_after(2):
+            async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+                p = await n.start_actor(
+                    'aio_daemon',
+                    enable_modules=[__name__],
+                    infect_asyncio=True,
+                    # debug_mode=True,
+                    loglevel='cancel',
+                )
+                async with p.open_context(
+                    trio_ctx,
+                ) as (ctx, first):
+
+                    assert first == 'start'
+
+                    if parent_cancels:
+                        await p.cancel_actor()
+
+                    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+    with pytest.raises(RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+    err = excinfo.value
+    assert isinstance(err, RemoteActorError)
+    if parent_cancels:
+        assert err.type == trio.Cancelled
+    else:
+        assert err.type == AssertionError
+
+
+async def aio_cancel():
+    ''''
+    Cancel urself boi.
+
+    '''
+    await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
+    task = asyncio.current_task()
+
+    # cancel and enter sleep
+    task.cancel()
+    await sleep_forever()
+
+
+def test_aio_cancelled_from_aio_causes_trio_cancelled(arb_addr):
+
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            await n.run_in_actor(
+                asyncio_actor,
+                target='aio_cancel',
+                expect_err='tractor.to_asyncio.AsyncioCancelled',
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+
+    with pytest.raises(RemoteActorError) as excinfo:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+    # ensure boxed error is correct
+    assert excinfo.value.type == to_asyncio.AsyncioCancelled
+
+
+# TODO: verify open_channel_from will fail on this..
+async def no_to_trio_in_args():
+    pass
+
+
+async def push_from_aio_task(
+
+    sequence: Iterable,
+    to_trio: trio.abc.SendChannel,
+    expect_cancel: False,
+    fail_early: bool,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    try:
+        # sync caller ctx manager
+        to_trio.send_nowait(True)
+
+        for i in sequence:
+            print(f'asyncio sending {i}')
+            to_trio.send_nowait(i)
+            await asyncio.sleep(0.001)
+
+            if i == 50 and fail_early:
+                raise Exception
+
+        print('asyncio streamer complete!')
+
+    except asyncio.CancelledError:
+        if not expect_cancel:
+            pytest.fail("aio task was cancelled unexpectedly")
+        raise
+    else:
+        if expect_cancel:
+            pytest.fail("aio task wasn't cancelled as expected!?")
+
+
+async def stream_from_aio(
+
+    exit_early: bool = False,
+    raise_err: bool = False,
+    aio_raise_err: bool = False,
+    fan_out: bool = False,
+
+) -> None:
+    seq = range(100)
+    expect = list(seq)
+
+    try:
+        pulled = []
+
+        async with to_asyncio.open_channel_from(
+            push_from_aio_task,
+            sequence=seq,
+            expect_cancel=raise_err or exit_early,
+            fail_early=aio_raise_err,
+        ) as (first, chan):
+
+            assert first is True
+
+            async def consume(
+                chan: Union[
+                    to_asyncio.LinkedTaskChannel,
+                    BroadcastReceiver,
+                ],
+            ):
+                async for value in chan:
+                    print(f'trio received {value}')
+                    pulled.append(value)
+
+                    if value == 50:
+                        if raise_err:
+                            raise Exception
+                        elif exit_early:
+                            break
+
+            if fan_out:
+                # start second task that get's the same stream value set.
+                async with (
+
+                    # NOTE: this has to come first to avoid
+                    # the channel being closed before the nursery
+                    # tasks are joined..
+                    chan.subscribe() as br,
+
+                    trio.open_nursery() as n,
+                ):
+                    n.start_soon(consume, br)
+                    await consume(chan)
+
+            else:
+                await consume(chan)
+    finally:
+
+        if (
+            not raise_err and
+            not exit_early and
+            not aio_raise_err
+        ):
+            if fan_out:
+                # we get double the pulled values in the
+                # ``.subscribe()`` fan out case.
+                doubled = list(itertools.chain(*zip(expect, expect)))
+                expect = doubled[:len(pulled)]
+                assert list(sorted(pulled)) == expect
+
+            else:
+                assert pulled == expect
+        else:
+            assert not fan_out
+            assert pulled == expect[:51]
+
+        print('trio guest mode task completed!')
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'fan_out', [False, True],
+    ids='fan_out_w_chan_subscribe={}'.format
+)
+def test_basic_interloop_channel_stream(arb_addr, fan_out):
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.run_in_actor(
+                stream_from_aio,
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+                fan_out=fan_out,
+            )
+            await portal.result()
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+# TODO: parametrize the above test and avoid the duplication here?
+def test_trio_error_cancels_intertask_chan(arb_addr):
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.run_in_actor(
+                stream_from_aio,
+                raise_err=True,
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+            # should trigger remote actor error
+            await portal.result()
+
+    with pytest.raises(BaseExceptionGroup) as excinfo:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+    # ensure boxed errors
+    for exc in excinfo.value.exceptions:
+        assert exc.type == Exception
+
+
+def test_trio_closes_early_and_channel_exits(arb_addr):
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.run_in_actor(
+                stream_from_aio,
+                exit_early=True,
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+            # should trigger remote actor error
+            await portal.result()
+
+    # should be a quiet exit on a simple channel exit
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_aio_errors_and_channel_propagates_and_closes(arb_addr):
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            portal = await n.run_in_actor(
+                stream_from_aio,
+                aio_raise_err=True,
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+            # should trigger remote actor error
+            await portal.result()
+
+    with pytest.raises(BaseExceptionGroup) as excinfo:
+        trio.run(main)
+
+    # ensure boxed errors
+    for exc in excinfo.value.exceptions:
+        assert exc.type == Exception
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def trio_to_aio_echo_server(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+):
+
+    async def aio_echo_server(
+        to_trio: trio.MemorySendChannel,
+        from_trio: asyncio.Queue,
+    ) -> None:
+
+        to_trio.send_nowait('start')
+
+        while True:
+            msg = await from_trio.get()
+
+            # echo the msg back
+            to_trio.send_nowait(msg)
+
+            # if we get the terminate sentinel
+            # break the echo loop
+            if msg is None:
+                print('breaking aio echo loop')
+                break
+
+        print('exiting asyncio task')
+
+    async with to_asyncio.open_channel_from(
+        aio_echo_server,
+    ) as (first, chan):
+
+        assert first == 'start'
+        await ctx.started(first)
+
+        async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+
+            async for msg in stream:
+                print(f'asyncio echoing {msg}')
+                await chan.send(msg)
+
+                out = await chan.receive()
+                # echo back to parent actor-task
+                await stream.send(out)
+
+                if out is None:
+                    try:
+                        out = await chan.receive()
+                    except trio.EndOfChannel:
+                        break
+                    else:
+                        raise RuntimeError('aio channel never stopped?')
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'raise_error_mid_stream',
+    [False, Exception, KeyboardInterrupt],
+    ids='raise_error={}'.format,
+)
+def test_echoserver_detailed_mechanics(
+    arb_addr,
+    raise_error_mid_stream,
+):
+
+    async def main():
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+            p = await n.start_actor(
+                'aio_server',
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
+                infect_asyncio=True,
+            )
+            async with p.open_context(
+                trio_to_aio_echo_server,
+            ) as (ctx, first):
+
+                assert first == 'start'
+
+                async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+                    for i in range(100):
+                        await stream.send(i)
+                        out = await stream.receive()
+                        assert i == out
+
+                        if raise_error_mid_stream and i == 50:
+                            raise raise_error_mid_stream
+
+                    # send terminate msg
+                    await stream.send(None)
+                    out = await stream.receive()
+                    assert out is None
+
+                    if out is None:
+                        # ensure the stream is stopped
+                        # with trio.fail_after(0.1):
+                        try:
+                            await stream.receive()
+                        except trio.EndOfChannel:
+                            pass
+                        else:
+                            pytest.fail(
+                                "stream wasn't stopped after sentinel?!")
+
+            # TODO: the case where this blocks and
+            # is cancelled by kbi or out of task cancellation
+            await p.cancel_actor()
+
+    if raise_error_mid_stream:
+        with pytest.raises(raise_error_mid_stream):
+            trio.run(main)
+
+    else:
+        trio.run(main)

tests/test_legacy_one_way_streaming.py

@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ import platform
 
 import trio
 import tractor
-from tractor.testing import tractor_test
 import pytest
 
+from conftest import tractor_test
+
 
 def test_must_define_ctx():
 
@@ -32,13 +33,16 @@ async def async_gen_stream(sequence):
 
     # block indefinitely waiting to be cancelled by ``aclose()`` call
     with trio.CancelScope() as cs:
-        await trio.sleep(float('inf'))
+        await trio.sleep_forever()
         assert 0
     assert cs.cancelled_caught
 
 
 @tractor.stream
-async def context_stream(ctx, sequence):
+async def context_stream(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    sequence
+):
     for i in sequence:
         await ctx.send_yield(i)
         await trio.sleep(0.1)
@@ -50,48 +54,62 @@ async def context_stream(ctx, sequence):
     assert cs.cancelled_caught
 
 
-async def stream_from_single_subactor(stream_func):
+async def stream_from_single_subactor(
+    arb_addr,
+    start_method,
+    stream_func,
+):
     """Verify we can spawn a daemon actor and retrieve streamed data.
     """
-    async with tractor.find_actor('streamerd') as portals:
+    # only one per host address, spawns an actor if None
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        start_method=start_method,
+    ) as nursery:
+
+        async with tractor.find_actor('streamerd') as portals:
+
+            if not portals:
 
-        if not portals:
-            # only one per host address, spawns an actor if None
-            async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
                 # no brokerd actor found
                 portal = await nursery.start_actor(
                     'streamerd',
-                    rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                    enable_modules=[__name__],
                 )
 
                 seq = range(10)
 
-                stream = await portal.run(
-                    stream_func,  # one of the funcs above
-                    sequence=list(seq),  # has to be msgpack serializable
-                )
-                # it'd sure be nice to have an asyncitertools here...
-                iseq = iter(seq)
-                ival = next(iseq)
+                with trio.fail_after(5):
+                    async with portal.open_stream_from(
+                        stream_func,
+                        sequence=list(seq),  # has to be msgpack serializable
+                    ) as stream:
 
-                async for val in stream:
-                    assert val == ival
-
-                    try:
+                        # it'd sure be nice to have an asyncitertools here...
+                        iseq = iter(seq)
                         ival = next(iseq)
-                    except StopIteration:
-                        # should cancel far end task which will be
-                        # caught and no error is raised
-                        await stream.aclose()
 
-                await trio.sleep(0.3)
+                        async for val in stream:
+                            assert val == ival
 
-                try:
-                    await stream.__anext__()
-                except StopAsyncIteration:
-                    # stop all spawned subactors
-                    await portal.cancel_actor()
-                # await nursery.cancel()
+                            try:
+                                ival = next(iseq)
+                            except StopIteration:
+                                # should cancel far end task which will be
+                                # caught and no error is raised
+                                await stream.aclose()
+
+                        await trio.sleep(0.3)
+
+                        # ensure EOC signalled-state translates
+                        # XXX: not really sure this is correct,
+                        # shouldn't it be a `ClosedResourceError`?
+                        try:
+                            await stream.__anext__()
+                        except StopAsyncIteration:
+                            # stop all spawned subactors
+                            await portal.cancel_actor()
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -100,13 +118,13 @@ async def stream_from_single_subactor(stream_func):
 def test_stream_from_single_subactor(arb_addr, start_method, stream_func):
     """Verify streaming from a spawned async generator.
     """
-    tractor.run(
+    trio.run(
         partial(
             stream_from_single_subactor,
+            arb_addr,
+            start_method,
             stream_func=stream_func,
         ),
-        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
-        start_method=start_method,
     )
 
 
@@ -118,7 +136,7 @@ async def stream_data(seed):
         yield i
 
         # trigger scheduler to simulate practical usage
-        await trio.sleep(0)
+        await trio.sleep(0.0001)
 
 
 # this is the third actor; the aggregator
@@ -132,7 +150,7 @@ async def aggregate(seed):
             # fork point
             portal = await nursery.start_actor(
                 name=f'streamer_{i}',
-                rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
             )
 
             portals.append(portal)
@@ -141,11 +159,14 @@ async def aggregate(seed):
 
         async def push_to_chan(portal, send_chan):
             async with send_chan:
-                async for value in await portal.run(
-                    __name__, 'stream_data', seed=seed
-                ):
-                    # leverage trio's built-in backpressure
-                    await send_chan.send(value)
+
+                async with portal.open_stream_from(
+                    stream_data, seed=seed,
+                ) as stream:
+
+                    async for value in stream:
+                        # leverage trio's built-in backpressure
+                        await send_chan.send(value)
 
             print(f"FINISHED ITERATING {portal.channel.uid}")
 
@@ -183,28 +204,31 @@ async def a_quadruple_example():
         seed = int(1e3)
         pre_start = time.time()
 
-        portal = await nursery.run_in_actor(
-            aggregate,
-            seed=seed,
+        portal = await nursery.start_actor(
             name='aggregator',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
         )
 
         start = time.time()
         # the portal call returns exactly what you'd expect
         # as if the remote "aggregate" function was called locally
         result_stream = []
-        async for value in await portal.result():
-            result_stream.append(value)
+
+        async with portal.open_stream_from(aggregate, seed=seed) as stream:
+            async for value in stream:
+                result_stream.append(value)
 
         print(f"STREAM TIME = {time.time() - start}")
         print(f"STREAM + SPAWN TIME = {time.time() - pre_start}")
         assert result_stream == list(range(seed))
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
         return result_stream
 
 
-async def cancel_after(wait):
-    with trio.move_on_after(wait):
-        return await a_quadruple_example()
+async def cancel_after(wait, arb_addr):
+    async with tractor.open_root_actor(arbiter_addr=arb_addr):
+        with trio.move_on_after(wait):
+            return await a_quadruple_example()
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope='module')
@@ -216,7 +240,7 @@ def time_quad_ex(arb_addr, ci_env, spawn_backend):
 
     timeout = 7 if platform.system() in ('Windows', 'Darwin') else 4
     start = time.time()
-    results = tractor.run(cancel_after, timeout, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+    results = trio.run(cancel_after, timeout, arb_addr)
     diff = time.time() - start
     assert results
     return results, diff
@@ -227,7 +251,7 @@ def test_a_quadruple_example(time_quad_ex, ci_env, spawn_backend):
 
     results, diff = time_quad_ex
     assert results
-    this_fast = 6 if platform.system() in ('Windows', 'Darwin') else 2.5
+    this_fast = 6 if platform.system() in ('Windows', 'Darwin') else 3
     assert diff < this_fast
 
 
@@ -243,7 +267,7 @@ def test_not_fast_enough_quad(
     """
     results, diff = time_quad_ex
     delay = max(diff - cancel_delay, 0)
-    results = tractor.run(cancel_after, delay, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+    results = trio.run(cancel_after, delay, arb_addr)
     system = platform.system()
     if system in ('Windows', 'Darwin') and results is not None:
         # In CI envoirments it seems later runs are quicker then the first
@@ -272,48 +296,57 @@ async def test_respawn_consumer_task(
 
     async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
 
-        stream = await(await n.run_in_actor(
+        portal = await n.start_actor(
+            name='streamer',
+            enable_modules=[__name__]
+        )
+        async with portal.open_stream_from(
             stream_data,
             seed=11,
-            name='streamer',
-        )).result()
+        ) as stream:
 
-        expect = set(range(11))
-        received = []
+            expect = set(range(11))
+            received = []
 
-        # this is the re-spawn task routine
-        async def consume(task_status=trio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED):
-            print('starting consume task..')
-            nonlocal stream
+            # this is the re-spawn task routine
+            async def consume(task_status=trio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED):
+                print('starting consume task..')
+                nonlocal stream
 
-            with trio.CancelScope() as cs:
-                task_status.started(cs)
+                with trio.CancelScope() as cs:
+                    task_status.started(cs)
 
-                # shield stream's underlying channel from cancellation
-                with stream.shield():
+                    # shield stream's underlying channel from cancellation
+                    # with stream.shield():
 
                     async for v in stream:
                         print(f'from stream: {v}')
                         expect.remove(v)
                         received.append(v)
 
-                print('exited consume')
+                    print('exited consume')
 
-        async with trio.open_nursery() as ln:
-            cs = await ln.start(consume)
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as ln:
+                cs = await ln.start(consume)
 
-            while True:
+                while True:
 
-                await trio.sleep(0.1)
+                    await trio.sleep(0.1)
 
-                if received[-1] % 2 == 0:
+                    if received[-1] % 2 == 0:
 
-                    print('cancelling consume task..')
-                    cs.cancel()
+                        print('cancelling consume task..')
+                        cs.cancel()
 
-                    # respawn
-                    cs = await ln.start(consume)
+                        # respawn
+                        cs = await ln.start(consume)
 
-                if not expect:
-                    print("all values streamed, BREAKING")
-                    break
+                    if not expect:
+                        print("all values streamed, BREAKING")
+                        break
+
+                cs.cancel()
+
+        # TODO: this is justification for a
+        # ``ActorNursery.stream_from_actor()`` helper?
+        await portal.cancel_actor()

tests/test_local.py

@@ -11,25 +11,18 @@ from conftest import tractor_test
 
 
 @pytest.mark.trio
-async def test_no_arbitter():
+async def test_no_runtime():
     """An arbitter must be established before any nurseries
     can be created.
 
-    (In other words ``tractor.run`` must be used instead of ``trio.run`` as is
-    done by the ``pytest-trio`` plugin.)
+    (In other words ``tractor.open_root_actor()`` must be engaged at
+    some point?)
     """
-    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
-        with tractor.open_nursery():
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError) :
+        async with tractor.find_actor('doggy'):
             pass
 
 
-def test_no_main():
-    """An async function **must** be passed to ``tractor.run()``.
-    """
-    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
-        tractor.run(None)
-
-
 @tractor_test
 async def test_self_is_registered(arb_addr):
     "Verify waiting on the arbiter to register itself using the standard api."
@@ -49,7 +42,8 @@ async def test_self_is_registered_localportal(arb_addr):
         assert isinstance(portal, tractor._portal.LocalPortal)
 
         with trio.fail_after(0.2):
-            sockaddr = await portal.run_from_ns('self', 'wait_for_actor', name='root')
+            sockaddr = await portal.run_from_ns(
+                    'self', 'wait_for_actor', name='root')
             assert sockaddr[0] == arb_addr
 
 
@@ -59,15 +53,19 @@ def test_local_actor_async_func(arb_addr):
     nums = []
 
     async def print_loop():
-        # arbiter is started in-proc if dne
-        assert tractor.current_actor().is_arbiter
 
-        for i in range(10):
-            nums.append(i)
-            await trio.sleep(0.1)
+        async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        ):
+            # arbiter is started in-proc if dne
+            assert tractor.current_actor().is_arbiter
+
+            for i in range(10):
+                nums.append(i)
+                await trio.sleep(0.1)
 
     start = time.time()
-    tractor.run(print_loop, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+    trio.run(print_loop)
 
     # ensure the sleeps were actually awaited
     assert time.time() - start >= 1

tests/test_multi_program.py

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 """
-Multiple python programs invoking ``tractor.run()``
+Multiple python programs invoking the runtime.
 """
 import platform
 import time
 
 import pytest
+import trio
 import tractor
 from conftest import (
     tractor_test,
@@ -45,8 +46,13 @@ async def test_cancel_remote_arbiter(daemon, arb_addr):
 def test_register_duplicate_name(daemon, arb_addr):
 
     async def main():
-        assert not tractor.current_actor().is_arbiter
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        ) as n:
+
+            assert not tractor.current_actor().is_arbiter
+
             p1 = await n.start_actor('doggy')
             p2 = await n.start_actor('doggy')
 
@@ -57,4 +63,4 @@ def test_register_duplicate_name(daemon, arb_addr):
 
     # run it manually since we want to start **after**
     # the other "daemon" program
-    tractor.run(main, arbiter_addr=arb_addr)
+    trio.run(main)

tests/test_pubsub.py

@@ -4,20 +4,22 @@ from itertools import cycle
 import pytest
 import trio
 import tractor
-from tractor.testing import tractor_test
+from tractor.experimental import msgpub
+
+from conftest import tractor_test
 
 
 def test_type_checks():
 
     with pytest.raises(TypeError) as err:
-        @tractor.msg.pub
+        @msgpub
         async def no_get_topics(yo):
             yield
 
     assert "must define a `get_topics`" in str(err.value)
 
     with pytest.raises(TypeError) as err:
-        @tractor.msg.pub
+        @msgpub
         def not_async_gen(yo):
             pass
 
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ def is_even(i):
 _get_topics = None
 
 
-@tractor.msg.pub
+@msgpub
 async def pubber(get_topics, seed=10):
 
     # ensure topic subscriptions are as expected
@@ -46,8 +48,9 @@ async def pubber(get_topics, seed=10):
 
 
 async def subs(
-    which, pub_actor_name, seed=10,
-    portal=None,
+    which,
+    pub_actor_name,
+    seed=10,
     task_status=trio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED,
 ):
     if len(which) == 1:
@@ -60,47 +63,49 @@ async def subs(
         def pred(i):
             return isinstance(i, int)
 
-    async with tractor.find_actor(pub_actor_name) as portal:
-        stream = await portal.run(
+    # TODO: https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/207
+    async with tractor.wait_for_actor(pub_actor_name) as portal:
+        assert portal
+
+        async with portal.open_stream_from(
             pubber,
             topics=which,
             seed=seed,
-        )
-        task_status.started(stream)
-        times = 10
-        count = 0
-        await stream.__anext__()
-        async for pkt in stream:
-            for topic, value in pkt.items():
-                assert pred(value)
-            count += 1
-            if count >= times:
-                break
-
-        await stream.aclose()
-
-        stream = await portal.run(
-            pubber,
-            topics=['odd'],
-            seed=seed,
-        )
-
-        await stream.__anext__()
-        count = 0
-        # async with aclosing(stream) as stream:
-        try:
+        ) as stream:
+            task_status.started(stream)
+            times = 10
+            count = 0
+            await stream.__anext__()
             async for pkt in stream:
                 for topic, value in pkt.items():
-                    pass
-                    # assert pred(value)
+                    assert pred(value)
                 count += 1
                 if count >= times:
                     break
-        finally:
+
             await stream.aclose()
 
+        async with portal.open_stream_from(
+            pubber,
+            topics=['odd'],
+            seed=seed,
+        ) as stream:
+            await stream.__anext__()
+            count = 0
+            # async with aclosing(stream) as stream:
+            try:
+                async for pkt in stream:
+                    for topic, value in pkt.items():
+                        pass
+                        # assert pred(value)
+                    count += 1
+                    if count >= times:
+                        break
+            finally:
+                await stream.aclose()
 
-@tractor.msg.pub(tasks=['one', 'two'])
+
+@msgpub(tasks=['one', 'two'])
 async def multilock_pubber(get_topics):
     yield {'doggy': 10}
 
@@ -128,11 +133,10 @@ async def test_required_args(callwith_expecterror):
             await func(**kwargs)
     else:
         async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
-            # await func(**kwargs)
-            portal = await n.run_in_actor(
-                multilock_pubber,
+
+            portal = await n.start_actor(
                 name='pubber',
-                **kwargs
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
             )
 
             async with tractor.wait_for_actor('pubber'):
@@ -140,8 +144,14 @@ async def test_required_args(callwith_expecterror):
 
             await trio.sleep(0.5)
 
-            async for val in await portal.result():
-                assert val == {'doggy': 10}
+            async with portal.open_stream_from(
+                multilock_pubber,
+                **kwargs
+            ) as stream:
+                async for val in stream:
+                    assert val == {'doggy': 10}
+
+            await portal.cancel_actor()
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -159,7 +169,10 @@ def test_multi_actor_subs_arbiter_pub(
 
     async def main():
 
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        ) as n:
 
             name = 'root'
 
@@ -167,8 +180,9 @@ def test_multi_actor_subs_arbiter_pub(
                 # start the publisher as a daemon
                 master_portal = await n.start_actor(
                     'streamer',
-                    rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                    enable_modules=[__name__],
                 )
+                name = 'streamer'
 
             even_portal = await n.run_in_actor(
                 subs,
@@ -227,7 +241,6 @@ def test_multi_actor_subs_arbiter_pub(
                 assert 'even' not in get_topics()
 
             await odd_portal.cancel_actor()
-            await trio.sleep(2)
 
             if pub_actor == 'arbiter':
                 while get_topics():
@@ -237,11 +250,7 @@ def test_multi_actor_subs_arbiter_pub(
             else:
                 await master_portal.cancel_actor()
 
-    tractor.run(
-        main,
-        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
-        rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
-    )
+    trio.run(main)
 
 
 def test_single_subactor_pub_multitask_subs(
@@ -250,11 +259,14 @@ def test_single_subactor_pub_multitask_subs(
 ):
     async def main():
 
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        ) as n:
 
             portal = await n.start_actor(
                 'streamer',
-                rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+                enable_modules=[__name__],
             )
             async with tractor.wait_for_actor('streamer'):
                 # block until 2nd actor is initialized
@@ -278,8 +290,4 @@ def test_single_subactor_pub_multitask_subs(
 
             await portal.cancel_actor()
 
-    tractor.run(
-        main,
-        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
-        rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
-    )
+    trio.run(main)

tests/test_resource_cache.py

@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+'''
+Async context manager cache api testing: ``trionics.maybe_open_context():``
+
+'''
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager as acm
+import platform
+from typing import Awaitable
+
+import pytest
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+_resource: int = 0
+
+
+@acm
+async def maybe_increment_counter(task_name: str):
+    global _resource
+
+    _resource += 1
+    await trio.lowlevel.checkpoint()
+    yield _resource
+    await trio.lowlevel.checkpoint()
+    _resource -= 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'key_on',
+    ['key_value', 'kwargs'],
+    ids="key_on={}".format,
+)
+def test_resource_only_entered_once(key_on):
+    global _resource
+    _resource = 0
+
+    kwargs = {}
+    key = None
+    if key_on == 'key_value':
+        key = 'some_common_key'
+
+    async def main():
+        cache_active: bool = False
+
+        async def enter_cached_mngr(name: str):
+            nonlocal cache_active
+
+            if key_on == 'kwargs':
+                # make a common kwargs input to key on it
+                kwargs = {'task_name': 'same_task_name'}
+                assert key is None
+            else:
+                # different task names per task will be used
+                kwargs = {'task_name': name}
+
+            async with tractor.trionics.maybe_open_context(
+                maybe_increment_counter,
+                kwargs=kwargs,
+                key=key,
+
+            ) as (cache_hit, resource):
+                if cache_hit:
+                    try:
+                        cache_active = True
+                        assert resource == 1
+                        await trio.sleep_forever()
+                    finally:
+                        cache_active = False
+                else:
+                    assert resource == 1
+                    await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+        with trio.move_on_after(0.5):
+            async with (
+                tractor.open_root_actor(),
+                trio.open_nursery() as n,
+            ):
+
+                for i in range(10):
+                    n.start_soon(enter_cached_mngr, f'task_{i}')
+                    await trio.sleep(0.001)
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def streamer(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    seq: list[int] = list(range(1000)),
+) -> None:
+
+    await ctx.started()
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+        for val in seq:
+            await stream.send(val)
+            await trio.sleep(0.001)
+
+    print('producer finished')
+
+
+@acm
+async def open_stream() -> Awaitable[tractor.MsgStream]:
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
+        portal = await tn.start_actor('streamer', enable_modules=[__name__])
+        async with (
+            portal.open_context(streamer) as (ctx, first),
+            ctx.open_stream() as stream,
+        ):
+            yield stream
+
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+    print('CANCELLED STREAMER')
+
+
+@acm
+async def maybe_open_stream(taskname: str):
+    async with tractor.trionics.maybe_open_context(
+        # NOTE: all secondary tasks should cache hit on the same key
+        acm_func=open_stream,
+    ) as (cache_hit, stream):
+
+        if cache_hit:
+            print(f'{taskname} loaded from cache')
+
+            # add a new broadcast subscription for the quote stream
+            # if this feed is already allocated by the first
+            # task that entereed
+            async with stream.subscribe() as bstream:
+                yield bstream
+        else:
+            # yield the actual stream
+            yield stream
+
+
+def test_open_local_sub_to_stream():
+    '''
+    Verify a single inter-actor stream can can be fanned-out shared to
+    N local tasks using ``trionics.maybe_open_context():``.
+
+    '''
+    timeout = 3 if platform.system() != "Windows" else 10
+
+    async def main():
+
+        full = list(range(1000))
+
+        async def get_sub_and_pull(taskname: str):
+            async with (
+                maybe_open_stream(taskname) as stream,
+            ):
+                if '0' in taskname:
+                    assert isinstance(stream, tractor.MsgStream)
+                else:
+                    assert isinstance(
+                        stream,
+                        tractor.trionics.BroadcastReceiver
+                    )
+
+                first = await stream.receive()
+                print(f'{taskname} started with value {first}')
+                seq = []
+                async for msg in stream:
+                    seq.append(msg)
+
+                assert set(seq).issubset(set(full))
+            print(f'{taskname} finished')
+
+        with trio.fail_after(timeout):
+            # TODO: turns out this isn't multi-task entrant XD
+            # We probably need an indepotent entry semantic?
+            async with tractor.open_root_actor():
+                async with (
+                    trio.open_nursery() as nurse,
+                ):
+                    for i in range(10):
+                        nurse.start_soon(get_sub_and_pull, f'task_{i}')
+                        await trio.sleep(0.001)
+
+                print('all consumer tasks finished')
+
+    trio.run(main)

tests/test_rpc.py

@@ -74,11 +74,15 @@ def test_rpc_errors(arb_addr, to_call, testdir):
         remote_err = inside_err
 
     async def main():
-        actor = tractor.current_actor()
-        assert actor.is_arbiter
 
         # spawn a subactor which calls us back
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+            enable_modules=exposed_mods.copy(),
+        ) as n:
+
+            actor = tractor.current_actor()
+            assert actor.is_arbiter
             await n.run_in_actor(
                 sleep_back_actor,
                 actor_name=subactor_requests_to,
@@ -90,15 +94,11 @@ def test_rpc_errors(arb_addr, to_call, testdir):
                 func_name=funcname,
                 exposed_mods=exposed_mods,
                 func_defined=True if func_defined else False,
-                rpc_module_paths=subactor_exposed_mods,
+                enable_modules=subactor_exposed_mods,
             )
 
     def run():
-        tractor.run(
-            main,
-            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
-            rpc_module_paths=exposed_mods.copy(),
-        )
+        trio.run(main)
 
     # handle both parameterized cases
     if exposed_mods and func_defined:

tests/test_runtime.py

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+"""
+Verifying internal runtime state and undocumented extras.
+
+"""
+import os
+
+import pytest
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+from conftest import tractor_test
+
+
+_file_path: str = ''
+
+
+def unlink_file():
+    print('Removing tmp file!')
+    os.remove(_file_path)
+
+
+async def crash_and_clean_tmpdir(
+    tmp_file_path: str,
+    error: bool = True,
+):
+    global _file_path
+    _file_path = tmp_file_path
+
+    actor = tractor.current_actor()
+    actor.lifetime_stack.callback(unlink_file)
+
+    assert os.path.isfile(tmp_file_path)
+    await trio.sleep(0.1)
+    if error:
+        assert 0
+    else:
+        actor.cancel_soon()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'error_in_child',
+    [True, False],
+)
+@tractor_test
+async def test_lifetime_stack_wipes_tmpfile(
+    tmp_path,
+    error_in_child: bool,
+):
+    child_tmp_file = tmp_path / "child.txt"
+    child_tmp_file.touch()
+    assert child_tmp_file.exists()
+    path = str(child_tmp_file)
+
+    try:
+        with trio.move_on_after(0.5):
+            async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+                    await (  # inlined portal
+                        await n.run_in_actor(
+                            crash_and_clean_tmpdir,
+                            tmp_file_path=path,
+                            error=error_in_child,
+                        )
+                    ).result()
+
+    except (
+        tractor.RemoteActorError,
+        tractor.BaseExceptionGroup,
+    ):
+        pass
+
+    # tmp file should have been wiped by
+    # teardown stack.
+    assert not child_tmp_file.exists()

tests/test_spawning.py

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 """
 Spawning basics
+
 """
-from functools import partial
+from typing import Optional
 
 import pytest
 import trio
@@ -12,46 +13,59 @@ from conftest import tractor_test
 data_to_pass_down = {'doggy': 10, 'kitty': 4}
 
 
-async def spawn(is_arbiter, data):
+async def spawn(
+    is_arbiter: bool,
+    data: dict,
+    arb_addr: tuple[str, int],
+):
     namespaces = [__name__]
 
     await trio.sleep(0.1)
-    actor = tractor.current_actor()
-    assert actor.is_arbiter == is_arbiter
-    data == data_to_pass_down
 
-    if actor.is_arbiter:
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as nursery:
-            # forks here
-            portal = await nursery.run_in_actor(
-                spawn,
-                is_arbiter=False,
-                name='sub-actor',
-                data=data,
-                rpc_module_paths=namespaces,
-            )
+    async with tractor.open_root_actor(
+        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+    ):
 
-            assert len(nursery._children) == 1
-            assert portal.channel.uid in tractor.current_actor()._peers
-            # be sure we can still get the result
-            result = await portal.result()
-            assert result == 10
-            return result
-    else:
-        return 10
+        actor = tractor.current_actor()
+        assert actor.is_arbiter == is_arbiter
+        data = data_to_pass_down
+
+        if actor.is_arbiter:
+
+            async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            ) as nursery:
+
+                # forks here
+                portal = await nursery.run_in_actor(
+                    spawn,
+                    is_arbiter=False,
+                    name='sub-actor',
+                    data=data,
+                    arb_addr=arb_addr,
+                    enable_modules=namespaces,
+                )
+
+                assert len(nursery._children) == 1
+                assert portal.channel.uid in tractor.current_actor()._peers
+                # be sure we can still get the result
+                result = await portal.result()
+                assert result == 10
+                return result
+        else:
+            return 10
 
 
 def test_local_arbiter_subactor_global_state(arb_addr):
-    result = tractor.run(
-        partial(spawn, data=data_to_pass_down),
+    result = trio.run(
+        spawn,
         True,
-        name='arbiter',
-        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        data_to_pass_down,
+        arb_addr,
     )
     assert result == 10
 
 
-def movie_theatre_question():
+async def movie_theatre_question():
     """A question asked in a dark theatre, in a tangent
     (errr, I mean different) process.
     """
@@ -67,7 +81,7 @@ async def test_movie_theatre_convo(start_method):
         portal = await n.start_actor(
             'frank',
             # enable the actor to run funcs from this current module
-            rpc_module_paths=[__name__],
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
         )
 
         print(await portal.run(movie_theatre_question))
@@ -80,24 +94,38 @@ async def test_movie_theatre_convo(start_method):
         await portal.cancel_actor()
 
 
-def cellar_door():
-    return "Dang that's beautiful"
+async def cellar_door(return_value: Optional[str]):
+    return return_value
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'return_value', ["Dang that's beautiful", None],
+    ids=['return_str', 'return_None'],
+)
 @tractor_test
-async def test_most_beautiful_word(start_method):
-    """The main ``tractor`` routine.
-    """
-    async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
+async def test_most_beautiful_word(
+    start_method,
+    return_value
+):
+    '''
+    The main ``tractor`` routine.
 
-        portal = await n.run_in_actor(
-            cellar_door,
-            name='some_linguist',
-        )
+    '''
+    with trio.fail_after(1):
+        async with tractor.open_nursery() as n:
 
+            portal = await n.run_in_actor(
+                cellar_door,
+                return_value=return_value,
+                name='some_linguist',
+            )
+
+            print(await portal.result())
     # The ``async with`` will unblock here since the 'some_linguist'
     # actor has completed its main task ``cellar_door``.
 
+    # this should pull the cached final result already captured during
+    # the nursery block exit.
     print(await portal.result())
 
 
@@ -114,26 +142,27 @@ def test_loglevel_propagated_to_subactor(
     capfd,
     arb_addr,
 ):
-    if start_method == 'forkserver':
+    if start_method == 'mp_forkserver':
         pytest.skip(
             "a bug with `capfd` seems to make forkserver capture not work?")
 
     level = 'critical'
 
     async def main():
-        async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
+        async with tractor.open_nursery(
+            name='arbiter',
+            start_method=start_method,
+            arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+
+        ) as tn:
             await tn.run_in_actor(
                 check_loglevel,
+                loglevel=level,
                 level=level,
             )
 
-    tractor.run(
-        main,
-        name='arbiter',
-        loglevel=level,
-        start_method=start_method,
-        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
-    )
+    trio.run(main)
+
     # ensure subactor spits log message on stderr
     captured = capfd.readouterr()
     assert 'yoyoyo' in captured.err

tests/test_task_broadcasting.py

@@ -0,0 +1,514 @@
+"""
+Broadcast channels for fan-out to local tasks.
+
+"""
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+from functools import partial
+from itertools import cycle
+import time
+from typing import Optional
+
+import pytest
+import trio
+from trio.lowlevel import current_task
+import tractor
+from tractor.trionics import (
+    broadcast_receiver,
+    Lagged,
+)
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def echo_sequences(
+
+    ctx:  tractor.Context,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''Bidir streaming endpoint which will stream
+    back any sequence it is sent item-wise.
+
+    '''
+    await ctx.started()
+
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+        async for sequence in stream:
+            seq = list(sequence)
+            for value in seq:
+                await stream.send(value)
+                print(f'producer sent {value}')
+
+
+async def ensure_sequence(
+
+    stream: tractor.MsgStream,
+    sequence: list,
+    delay: Optional[float] = None,
+
+) -> None:
+
+    name = current_task().name
+    async with stream.subscribe() as bcaster:
+        assert not isinstance(bcaster, type(stream))
+        async for value in bcaster:
+            print(f'{name} rx: {value}')
+            assert value == sequence[0]
+            sequence.remove(value)
+
+            if delay:
+                await trio.sleep(delay)
+
+            if not sequence:
+                # fully consumed
+                break
+
+
+@asynccontextmanager
+async def open_sequence_streamer(
+
+    sequence: list[int],
+    arb_addr: tuple[str, int],
+    start_method: str,
+
+) -> tractor.MsgStream:
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        arbiter_addr=arb_addr,
+        start_method=start_method,
+    ) as tn:
+
+        portal = await tn.start_actor(
+            'sequence_echoer',
+            enable_modules=[__name__],
+        )
+
+        async with portal.open_context(
+            echo_sequences,
+        ) as (ctx, first):
+
+            assert first is None
+            async with ctx.open_stream(backpressure=True) as stream:
+                yield stream
+
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+def test_stream_fan_out_to_local_subscriptions(
+    arb_addr,
+    start_method,
+):
+
+    sequence = list(range(1000))
+
+    async def main():
+
+        async with open_sequence_streamer(
+            sequence,
+            arb_addr,
+            start_method,
+        ) as stream:
+
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+                for i in range(10):
+                    n.start_soon(
+                        ensure_sequence,
+                        stream,
+                        sequence.copy(),
+                        name=f'consumer_{i}',
+                    )
+
+                await stream.send(tuple(sequence))
+
+                async for value in stream:
+                    print(f'source stream rx: {value}')
+                    assert value == sequence[0]
+                    sequence.remove(value)
+
+                    if not sequence:
+                        # fully consumed
+                        break
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'task_delays',
+    [
+        (0.01, 0.001),
+        (0.001, 0.01),
+    ]
+)
+def test_consumer_and_parent_maybe_lag(
+    arb_addr,
+    start_method,
+    task_delays,
+):
+
+    async def main():
+
+        sequence = list(range(300))
+        parent_delay, sub_delay = task_delays
+
+        async with open_sequence_streamer(
+            sequence,
+            arb_addr,
+            start_method,
+        ) as stream:
+
+            try:
+                async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+
+                    n.start_soon(
+                        ensure_sequence,
+                        stream,
+                        sequence.copy(),
+                        sub_delay,
+                        name='consumer_task',
+                    )
+
+                    await stream.send(tuple(sequence))
+
+                    # async for value in stream:
+                    lagged = False
+                    lag_count = 0
+
+                    while True:
+                        try:
+                            value = await stream.receive()
+                            print(f'source stream rx: {value}')
+
+                            if lagged:
+                                # re set the sequence starting at our last
+                                # value
+                                sequence = sequence[sequence.index(value) + 1:]
+                            else:
+                                assert value == sequence[0]
+                                sequence.remove(value)
+
+                            lagged = False
+
+                        except Lagged:
+                            lagged = True
+                            print(f'source stream lagged after {value}')
+                            lag_count += 1
+                            continue
+
+                        # lag the parent
+                        await trio.sleep(parent_delay)
+
+                        if not sequence:
+                            # fully consumed
+                            break
+                    print(f'parent + source stream lagged: {lag_count}')
+
+                    if parent_delay > sub_delay:
+                        assert lag_count > 0
+
+            except Lagged:
+                # child was lagged
+                assert parent_delay < sub_delay
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_faster_task_to_recv_is_cancelled_by_slower(
+    arb_addr,
+    start_method,
+):
+    '''
+    Ensure that if a faster task consuming from a stream is cancelled
+    the slower task can continue to receive all expected values.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+
+        sequence = list(range(1000))
+
+        async with open_sequence_streamer(
+            sequence,
+            arb_addr,
+            start_method,
+
+        ) as stream:
+
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+                n.start_soon(
+                    ensure_sequence,
+                    stream,
+                    sequence.copy(),
+                    0,
+                    name='consumer_task',
+                )
+
+                await stream.send(tuple(sequence))
+
+                # pull 3 values, cancel the subtask, then
+                # expect to be able to pull all values still
+                for i in range(20):
+                    try:
+                        value = await stream.receive()
+                        print(f'source stream rx: {value}')
+                        await trio.sleep(0.01)
+                    except Lagged:
+                        print(f'parent overrun after {value}')
+                        continue
+
+                print('cancelling faster subtask')
+                n.cancel_scope.cancel()
+
+            try:
+                value = await stream.receive()
+                print(f'source stream after cancel: {value}')
+            except Lagged:
+                print(f'parent overrun after {value}')
+
+            # expect to see all remaining values
+            with trio.fail_after(0.5):
+                async for value in stream:
+                    assert stream._broadcaster._state.recv_ready is None
+                    print(f'source stream rx: {value}')
+                    if value == 999:
+                        # fully consumed and we missed no values once
+                        # the faster subtask was cancelled
+                        break
+
+                # await tractor.breakpoint()
+                # await stream.receive()
+                print(f'final value: {value}')
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_subscribe_errors_after_close():
+
+    async def main():
+
+        size = 1
+        tx, rx = trio.open_memory_channel(size)
+        async with broadcast_receiver(rx, size) as brx:
+            pass
+
+        try:
+            # open and close
+            async with brx.subscribe():
+                pass
+
+        except trio.ClosedResourceError:
+            assert brx.key not in brx._state.subs
+
+        else:
+            assert 0
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_ensure_slow_consumers_lag_out(
+    arb_addr,
+    start_method,
+):
+    '''This is a pure local task test; no tractor
+    machinery is really required.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+
+        # make sure it all works within the runtime
+        async with tractor.open_root_actor():
+
+            num_laggers = 4
+            laggers: dict[str, int] = {}
+            retries = 3
+            size = 100
+            tx, rx = trio.open_memory_channel(size)
+            brx = broadcast_receiver(rx, size)
+
+            async def sub_and_print(
+                delay: float,
+            ) -> None:
+
+                task = current_task()
+                start = time.time()
+
+                async with brx.subscribe() as lbrx:
+                    while True:
+                        print(f'{task.name}: starting consume loop')
+                        try:
+                            async for value in lbrx:
+                                print(f'{task.name}: {value}')
+                                await trio.sleep(delay)
+
+                            if task.name == 'sub_1':
+                                # trigger checkpoint to clean out other subs
+                                await trio.sleep(0.01)
+
+                                # the non-lagger got
+                                # a ``trio.EndOfChannel``
+                                # because the ``tx`` below was closed
+                                assert len(lbrx._state.subs) == 1
+
+                                await lbrx.aclose()
+
+                                assert len(lbrx._state.subs) == 0
+
+                        except trio.ClosedResourceError:
+                            # only the fast sub will try to re-enter
+                            # iteration on the now closed bcaster
+                            assert task.name == 'sub_1'
+                            return
+
+                        except Lagged:
+                            lag_time = time.time() - start
+                            lags = laggers[task.name]
+                            print(
+                                f'restarting slow task {task.name} '
+                                f'that bailed out on {lags}:{value} '
+                                f'after {lag_time:.3f}')
+                            if lags <= retries:
+                                laggers[task.name] += 1
+                                continue
+                            else:
+                                print(
+                                    f'{task.name} was too slow and terminated '
+                                    f'on {lags}:{value}')
+                                return
+
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as nursery:
+
+                for i in range(1, num_laggers):
+
+                    task_name = f'sub_{i}'
+                    laggers[task_name] = 0
+                    nursery.start_soon(
+                        partial(
+                            sub_and_print,
+                            delay=i*0.001,
+                        ),
+                        name=task_name,
+                    )
+
+                # allow subs to sched
+                await trio.sleep(0.1)
+
+                async with tx:
+                    for i in cycle(range(size)):
+                        await tx.send(i)
+                        if len(brx._state.subs) == 2:
+                            # only one, the non lagger, sub is left
+                            break
+
+                # the non-lagger
+                assert laggers.pop('sub_1') == 0
+
+                for n, v in laggers.items():
+                    assert v == 4
+
+                assert tx._closed
+                assert not tx._state.open_send_channels
+
+                # check that "first" bcaster that we created
+                # above, never was iterated and is thus overrun
+                try:
+                    await brx.receive()
+                except Lagged:
+                    # expect tokio style index truncation
+                    seq = brx._state.subs[brx.key]
+                    assert seq == len(brx._state.queue) - 1
+
+                # all backpressured entries in the underlying
+                # channel should have been copied into the caster
+                # queue trailing-window
+                async for i in rx:
+                    print(f'bped: {i}')
+                    assert i in brx._state.queue
+
+                # should be noop
+                await brx.aclose()
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_first_recver_is_cancelled():
+
+    async def main():
+
+        # make sure it all works within the runtime
+        async with tractor.open_root_actor():
+
+            tx, rx = trio.open_memory_channel(1)
+            brx = broadcast_receiver(rx, 1)
+            cs = trio.CancelScope()
+
+            async def sub_and_recv():
+                with cs:
+                    async with brx.subscribe() as bc:
+                        async for value in bc:
+                            print(value)
+
+            async def cancel_and_send():
+                await trio.sleep(0.2)
+                cs.cancel()
+                await tx.send(1)
+
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+
+                n.start_soon(sub_and_recv)
+                await trio.sleep(0.1)
+                assert brx._state.recv_ready
+
+                n.start_soon(cancel_and_send)
+
+                # ensure that we don't hang because no-task is now
+                # waiting on the underlying receive..
+                with trio.fail_after(0.5):
+                    value = await brx.receive()
+                    print(f'parent: {value}')
+                    assert value == 1
+
+    trio.run(main)
+
+
+def test_no_raise_on_lag():
+    '''
+    Run a simple 2-task broadcast where one task is slow but configured
+    so that it does not raise `Lagged` on overruns using
+    `raise_on_lasg=False` and verify that the task does not raise.
+
+    '''
+    size = 100
+    tx, rx = trio.open_memory_channel(size)
+    brx = broadcast_receiver(rx, size)
+
+    async def slow():
+        async with brx.subscribe(
+            raise_on_lag=False,
+        ) as br:
+            async for msg in br:
+                print(f'slow task got: {msg}')
+                await trio.sleep(0.1)
+
+    async def fast():
+        async with brx.subscribe() as br:
+            async for msg in br:
+                print(f'fast task got: {msg}')
+
+    async def main():
+        async with (
+            tractor.open_root_actor(
+                # NOTE: so we see the warning msg emitted by the bcaster
+                # internals when the no raise flag is set.
+                loglevel='warning',
+            ),
+            trio.open_nursery() as n,
+        ):
+            n.start_soon(slow)
+            n.start_soon(fast)
+
+            for i in range(1000):
+                await tx.send(i)
+
+            # simulate user nailing ctl-c after realizing
+            # there's a lag in the slow task.
+            await trio.sleep(1)
+            raise KeyboardInterrupt
+
+    with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
+        trio.run(main)

tests/test_trioisms.py

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+'''
+Reminders for oddities in `trio` that we need to stay aware of and/or
+want to see changed.
+
+'''
+import pytest
+import trio
+from trio_typing import TaskStatus
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    'use_start_soon', [
+        pytest.param(
+            True,
+            marks=pytest.mark.xfail(reason="see python-trio/trio#2258")
+        ),
+        False,
+    ]
+)
+def test_stashed_child_nursery(use_start_soon):
+
+    _child_nursery = None
+
+    async def waits_on_signal(
+        ev: trio.Event(),
+        task_status: TaskStatus[trio.Nursery] = trio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED,
+    ):
+        '''
+        Do some stuf, then signal other tasks, then yield back to "starter".
+
+        '''
+        await ev.wait()
+        task_status.started()
+
+    async def mk_child_nursery(
+        task_status: TaskStatus = trio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED,
+    ):
+        '''
+        Allocate a child sub-nursery and stash it as a global.
+
+        '''
+        nonlocal _child_nursery
+
+        async with trio.open_nursery() as cn:
+            _child_nursery = cn
+            task_status.started(cn)
+
+            # block until cancelled by parent.
+            await trio.sleep_forever()
+
+    async def sleep_and_err(
+        ev: trio.Event,
+        task_status: TaskStatus = trio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED,
+    ):
+        await trio.sleep(0.5)
+        doggy()  # noqa
+        ev.set()
+        task_status.started()
+
+    async def main():
+
+        async with (
+            trio.open_nursery() as pn,
+        ):
+            cn = await pn.start(mk_child_nursery)
+            assert cn
+
+            ev = trio.Event()
+
+            if use_start_soon:
+                # this causes inf hang
+                cn.start_soon(sleep_and_err, ev)
+
+            else:
+                # this does not.
+                await cn.start(sleep_and_err, ev)
+
+            with trio.fail_after(1):
+                await cn.start(waits_on_signal, ev)
+
+    with pytest.raises(NameError):
+        trio.run(main)

tractor/__init__.py

@@ -1,39 +1,86 @@
-"""
-tractor: An actor model micro-framework built on
-         ``trio`` and ``multiprocessing``.
-"""
-from trio import MultiError
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
 
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+
+"""
+from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup
+
+from ._clustering import open_actor_cluster
 from ._ipc import Channel
-from ._streaming import Context, stream
-from ._discovery import get_arbiter, find_actor, wait_for_actor
-from ._trionics import open_nursery
-from ._state import current_actor, is_root_process
-from ._exceptions import RemoteActorError, ModuleNotExposed
-from ._debug import breakpoint, post_mortem
+from ._streaming import (
+    Context,
+    MsgStream,
+    stream,
+    context,
+)
+from ._discovery import (
+    get_arbiter,
+    find_actor,
+    wait_for_actor,
+    query_actor,
+)
+from ._supervise import open_nursery
+from ._state import (
+    current_actor,
+    is_root_process,
+)
+from ._exceptions import (
+    RemoteActorError,
+    ModuleNotExposed,
+    ContextCancelled,
+)
+from ._debug import (
+    breakpoint,
+    post_mortem,
+)
 from . import msg
-from ._root import run, run_daemon, open_root_actor
+from ._root import (
+    run_daemon,
+    open_root_actor,
+)
+from ._portal import Portal
+from ._runtime import Actor
 
 
 __all__ = [
+    'Actor',
     'Channel',
     'Context',
+    'ContextCancelled',
     'ModuleNotExposed',
-    'MultiError',
+    'MsgStream',
+    'BaseExceptionGroup',
+    'Portal',
     'RemoteActorError',
     'breakpoint',
+    'context',
     'current_actor',
     'find_actor',
     'get_arbiter',
     'is_root_process',
     'msg',
+    'open_actor_cluster',
     'open_nursery',
     'open_root_actor',
     'post_mortem',
-    'run',
+    'query_actor',
     'run_daemon',
     'stream',
-    'wait_for_actor',
     'to_asyncio',
     'wait_for_actor',
 ]

tractor/_child.py

@@ -1,4 +1,22 @@
-"""This is the "bootloader" for actors started using the native trio backend.
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+This is the "bootloader" for actors started using the native trio backend.
+
 """
 import sys
 import trio
@@ -6,7 +24,7 @@ import argparse
 
 from ast import literal_eval
 
-from ._actor import Actor
+from ._runtime import Actor
 from ._entry import _trio_main
 
 
@@ -19,12 +37,15 @@ def parse_ipaddr(arg):
     return (str(host), int(port))
 
 
+from ._entry import _trio_main
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     parser.add_argument("--uid", type=parse_uid)
     parser.add_argument("--loglevel", type=str)
     parser.add_argument("--parent_addr", type=parse_ipaddr)
+    parser.add_argument("--asyncio", action='store_true')
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     subactor = Actor(
@@ -36,5 +57,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     _trio_main(
         subactor,
-        parent_addr=args.parent_addr
-    )
+        parent_addr=args.parent_addr,
+        infect_asyncio=args.asyncio,
+    )

tractor/_clustering.py

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+'''
+Actor cluster helpers.
+
+'''
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager as acm
+from multiprocessing import cpu_count
+from typing import AsyncGenerator, Optional
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+@acm
+async def open_actor_cluster(
+    modules: list[str],
+    count: int = cpu_count(),
+    names: list[str] | None = None,
+    hard_kill: bool = False,
+
+    # passed through verbatim to ``open_root_actor()``
+    **runtime_kwargs,
+
+) -> AsyncGenerator[
+    dict[str, tractor.Portal],
+    None,
+]:
+
+    portals: dict[str, tractor.Portal] = {}
+
+    if not names:
+        names = [f'worker_{i}' for i in range(count)]
+
+    if not len(names) == count:
+        raise ValueError(
+            'Number of names is {len(names)} but count it {count}')
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery(
+        **runtime_kwargs,
+    ) as an:
+        async with trio.open_nursery() as n:
+            uid = tractor.current_actor().uid
+
+            async def _start(name: str) -> None:
+                name = f'{uid[0]}.{name}'
+                portals[name] = await an.start_actor(
+                    enable_modules=modules,
+                    name=name,
+                )
+
+            for name in names:
+                n.start_soon(_start, name)
+
+        assert len(portals) == count
+        yield portals
+
+        await an.cancel(hard_kill=hard_kill)

tractor/_discovery.py

@@ -1,9 +1,29 @@
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
 """
 Actor discovery API.
+
 """
-import typing
-from typing import Tuple, Optional, Union
-from async_generator import asynccontextmanager
+from typing import (
+    Optional,
+    Union,
+    AsyncGenerator,
+)
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager as acm
 
 from ._ipc import _connect_chan, Channel
 from ._portal import (
@@ -14,14 +34,16 @@ from ._portal import (
 from ._state import current_actor, _runtime_vars
 
 
-@asynccontextmanager
+@acm
 async def get_arbiter(
+
     host: str,
     port: int,
-) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[Union[Portal, LocalPortal], None]:
-    """Return a portal instance connected to a local or remote
+
+) -> AsyncGenerator[Union[Portal, LocalPortal], None]:
+    '''Return a portal instance connected to a local or remote
     arbiter.
-    """
+    '''
     actor = current_actor()
 
     if not actor:
@@ -33,39 +55,75 @@ async def get_arbiter(
         yield LocalPortal(actor, Channel((host, port)))
     else:
         async with _connect_chan(host, port) as chan:
+
             async with open_portal(chan) as arb_portal:
+
                 yield arb_portal
 
 
-@asynccontextmanager
+@acm
 async def get_root(
-**kwargs,
-) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[Union[Portal, LocalPortal], None]:
+    **kwargs,
+) -> AsyncGenerator[Portal, None]:
+
     host, port = _runtime_vars['_root_mailbox']
     assert host is not None
+
     async with _connect_chan(host, port) as chan:
         async with open_portal(chan, **kwargs) as portal:
             yield portal
 
 
-@asynccontextmanager
-async def find_actor(
+@acm
+async def query_actor(
     name: str,
-    arbiter_sockaddr: Tuple[str, int] = None
-) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[Optional[Portal], None]:
-    """Ask the arbiter to find actor(s) by name.
+    arbiter_sockaddr: Optional[tuple[str, int]] = None,
 
-    Returns a connected portal to the last registered matching actor
-    known to the arbiter.
-    """
+) -> AsyncGenerator[tuple[str, int], None]:
+    '''
+    Simple address lookup for a given actor name.
+
+    Returns the (socket) address or ``None``.
+
+    '''
     actor = current_actor()
-    async with get_arbiter(*arbiter_sockaddr or actor._arb_addr) as arb_portal:
-        sockaddr = await arb_portal.run_from_ns('self', 'find_actor', name=name)
+    async with get_arbiter(
+        *arbiter_sockaddr or actor._arb_addr
+    ) as arb_portal:
+
+        sockaddr = await arb_portal.run_from_ns(
+            'self',
+            'find_actor',
+            name=name,
+        )
+
         # TODO: return portals to all available actors - for now just
         # the last one that registered
         if name == 'arbiter' and actor.is_arbiter:
             raise RuntimeError("The current actor is the arbiter")
-        elif sockaddr:
+
+        yield sockaddr if sockaddr else None
+
+
+@acm
+async def find_actor(
+    name: str,
+    arbiter_sockaddr: tuple[str, int] | None = None
+
+) -> AsyncGenerator[Optional[Portal], None]:
+    '''
+    Ask the arbiter to find actor(s) by name.
+
+    Returns a connected portal to the last registered matching actor
+    known to the arbiter.
+
+    '''
+    async with query_actor(
+        name=name,
+        arbiter_sockaddr=arbiter_sockaddr,
+    ) as sockaddr:
+
+        if sockaddr:
             async with _connect_chan(*sockaddr) as chan:
                 async with open_portal(chan) as portal:
                     yield portal
@@ -73,19 +131,27 @@ async def find_actor(
             yield None
 
 
-@asynccontextmanager
+@acm
 async def wait_for_actor(
     name: str,
-    arbiter_sockaddr: Tuple[str, int] = None
-) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[Portal, None]:
+    arbiter_sockaddr: tuple[str, int] | None = None
+) -> AsyncGenerator[Portal, None]:
     """Wait on an actor to register with the arbiter.
 
     A portal to the first registered actor is returned.
     """
     actor = current_actor()
-    async with get_arbiter(*arbiter_sockaddr or actor._arb_addr) as arb_portal:
-        sockaddrs = await arb_portal.run_from_ns('self', 'wait_for_actor', name=name)
+
+    async with get_arbiter(
+        *arbiter_sockaddr or actor._arb_addr,
+    ) as arb_portal:
+        sockaddrs = await arb_portal.run_from_ns(
+            'self',
+            'wait_for_actor',
+            name=name,
+        )
         sockaddr = sockaddrs[-1]
+
         async with _connect_chan(*sockaddr) as chan:
             async with open_portal(chan) as portal:
                 yield portal

tractor/_entry.py

@@ -1,28 +1,64 @@
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
 """
 Sub-process entry points.
+
 """
+from __future__ import annotations
 from functools import partial
-from typing import Tuple, Any
-import signal
+from typing import (
+    Any,
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
+)
 
 import trio  # type: ignore
 
-from .log import get_console_log, get_logger
+from .log import (
+    get_console_log,
+    get_logger,
+)
 from . import _state
+from .to_asyncio import run_as_asyncio_guest
+from ._runtime import (
+    async_main,
+    Actor,
+)
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from ._spawn import SpawnMethodKey
 
 
 log = get_logger(__name__)
 
 
 def _mp_main(
-    actor: 'Actor',  # type: ignore
-    accept_addr: Tuple[str, int],
-    forkserver_info: Tuple[Any, Any, Any, Any, Any],
-    start_method: str,
-    parent_addr: Tuple[str, int] = None,
+
+    actor: Actor,  # type: ignore
+    accept_addr: tuple[str, int],
+    forkserver_info: tuple[Any, Any, Any, Any, Any],
+    start_method: SpawnMethodKey,
+    parent_addr: tuple[str, int] | None = None,
+    infect_asyncio: bool = False,
+
 ) -> None:
-    """The routine called *after fork* which invokes a fresh ``trio.run``
-    """
+    '''
+    The routine called *after fork* which invokes a fresh ``trio.run``
+
+    '''
     actor._forkserver_info = forkserver_info
     from ._spawn import try_set_start_method
     spawn_ctx = try_set_start_method(start_method)
@@ -40,12 +76,17 @@ def _mp_main(
 
     log.debug(f"parent_addr is {parent_addr}")
     trio_main = partial(
-        actor._async_main,
+        async_main,
+        actor,
         accept_addr,
         parent_addr=parent_addr
     )
     try:
-        trio.run(trio_main)
+        if infect_asyncio:
+            actor._infected_aio = True
+            run_as_asyncio_guest(trio_main)
+        else:
+            trio.run(trio_main)
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         pass  # handle it the same way trio does?
 
@@ -54,16 +95,17 @@ def _mp_main(
 
 
 def _trio_main(
-    actor: 'Actor',  # type: ignore
-    *,
-    parent_addr: Tuple[str, int] = None,
-) -> None:
-    """Entry point for a `trio_run_in_process` subactor.
-    """
-    # Disable sigint handling in children;
-    # we don't need it thanks to our cancellation machinery.
-    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_IGN)
 
+    actor: Actor,  # type: ignore
+    *,
+    parent_addr: tuple[str, int] | None = None,
+    infect_asyncio: bool = False,
+
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Entry point for a `trio_run_in_process` subactor.
+
+    '''
     log.info(f"Started new trio process for {actor.uid}")
 
     if actor.loglevel is not None:
@@ -78,12 +120,17 @@ def _trio_main(
 
     log.debug(f"parent_addr is {parent_addr}")
     trio_main = partial(
-        actor._async_main,
+        async_main,
+        actor,
         parent_addr=parent_addr
     )
 
     try:
-        trio.run(trio_main)
+        if infect_asyncio:
+            actor._infected_aio = True
+            run_as_asyncio_guest(trio_main)
+        else:
+            trio.run(trio_main)
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         log.warning(f"Actor {actor.uid} received KBI")
 

tractor/_exceptions.py

@@ -1,36 +1,58 @@
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
 """
 Our classy exception set.
+
 """
-from typing import Dict, Any
+from typing import (
+    Any,
+    Optional,
+    Type,
+)
 import importlib
 import builtins
 import traceback
 
+import exceptiongroup as eg
 import trio
 
 
 _this_mod = importlib.import_module(__name__)
 
 
+class ActorFailure(Exception):
+    "General actor failure"
+
+
 class RemoteActorError(Exception):
     # TODO: local recontruction of remote exception deats
     "Remote actor exception bundled locally"
-    def __init__(self, message, type_str, **msgdata) -> None:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        message: str,
+        suberror_type: Optional[Type[BaseException]] = None,
+        **msgdata
+
+    ) -> None:
         super().__init__(message)
-        for ns in [builtins, _this_mod, trio]:
-            try:
-                self.type = getattr(ns, type_str)
-                break
-            except AttributeError:
-                continue
-        else:
-            self.type = Exception
 
+        self.type = suberror_type
         self.msgdata = msgdata
 
-    # TODO: a trio.MultiError.catch like context manager
-    # for catching underlying remote errors of a particular type
-
 
 class InternalActorError(RemoteActorError):
     """Remote internal ``tractor`` error indicating
@@ -38,6 +60,14 @@ class InternalActorError(RemoteActorError):
     """
 
 
+class TransportClosed(trio.ClosedResourceError):
+    "Underlying channel transport was closed prior to use"
+
+
+class ContextCancelled(RemoteActorError):
+    "Inter-actor task context cancelled itself on the callee side."
+
+
 class NoResult(RuntimeError):
     "No final result is expected for this actor"
 
@@ -46,40 +76,102 @@ class ModuleNotExposed(ModuleNotFoundError):
     "The requested module is not exposed for RPC"
 
 
-def pack_error(exc: BaseException) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+class NoRuntime(RuntimeError):
+    "The root actor has not been initialized yet"
+
+
+class StreamOverrun(trio.TooSlowError):
+    "This stream was overrun by sender"
+
+
+class AsyncioCancelled(Exception):
+    '''
+    Asyncio cancelled translation (non-base) error
+    for use with the ``to_asyncio`` module
+    to be raised in the ``trio`` side task
+
+    '''
+
+
+def pack_error(
+    exc: BaseException,
+    tb=None,
+
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
     """Create an "error message" for tranmission over
     a channel (aka the wire).
     """
+    if tb:
+        tb_str = ''.join(traceback.format_tb(tb))
+    else:
+        tb_str = traceback.format_exc()
+
     return {
         'error': {
-            'tb_str': traceback.format_exc(),
+            'tb_str': tb_str,
             'type_str': type(exc).__name__,
         }
     }
 
 
 def unpack_error(
-    msg: Dict[str, Any],
+
+    msg: dict[str, Any],
     chan=None,
     err_type=RemoteActorError
+
 ) -> Exception:
-    """Unpack an 'error' message from the wire
+    '''
+    Unpack an 'error' message from the wire
     into a local ``RemoteActorError``.
-    """
-    tb_str = msg['error'].get('tb_str', '')
-    return err_type(
-        f"{chan.uid}\n" + tb_str,
+
+    '''
+    __tracebackhide__ = True
+    error = msg['error']
+
+    tb_str = error.get('tb_str', '')
+    message = f"{chan.uid}\n" + tb_str
+    type_name = error['type_str']
+    suberror_type: Type[BaseException] = Exception
+
+    if type_name == 'ContextCancelled':
+        err_type = ContextCancelled
+        suberror_type = trio.Cancelled
+
+    else:  # try to lookup a suitable local error type
+        for ns in [
+            builtins,
+            _this_mod,
+            eg,
+            trio,
+        ]:
+            try:
+                suberror_type = getattr(ns, type_name)
+                break
+            except AttributeError:
+                continue
+
+    exc = err_type(
+        message,
+        suberror_type=suberror_type,
+
+        # unpack other fields into error type init
         **msg['error'],
     )
 
+    return exc
+
 
 def is_multi_cancelled(exc: BaseException) -> bool:
-    """Predicate to determine if a ``trio.MultiError`` contains only
-    ``trio.Cancelled`` sub-exceptions (and is likely the result of
+    '''
+    Predicate to determine if a possible ``eg.BaseExceptionGroup`` contains
+    only ``trio.Cancelled`` sub-exceptions (and is likely the result of
     cancelling a collection of subtasks.
 
-    """
-    return not trio.MultiError.filter(
-        lambda exc: exc if not isinstance(exc, trio.Cancelled) else None,
-        exc,
-    )
+    '''
+    if isinstance(exc, eg.BaseExceptionGroup):
+        return exc.subgroup(
+            lambda exc: isinstance(exc, trio.Cancelled)
+        ) is not None
+
+    return False

tractor/_forkserver_override.py

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
 """
 This is near-copy of the 3.8 stdlib's ``multiprocessing.forkserver.py``
 with some hackery to prevent any more then a single forkserver and

tractor/_ipc.py

@@ -1,84 +1,240 @@
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
 """
 Inter-process comms abstractions
-"""
-import typing
-from typing import Any, Tuple, Optional
-from functools import partial
-import inspect
 
-import msgpack
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+import platform
+import struct
+import typing
+from collections.abc import (
+    AsyncGenerator,
+    AsyncIterator,
+)
+from typing import (
+    Any,
+    runtime_checkable,
+    Optional,
+    Protocol,
+    Type,
+    TypeVar,
+)
+
+from tricycle import BufferedReceiveStream
+import msgspec
 import trio
 from async_generator import asynccontextmanager
 
 from .log import get_logger
-log = get_logger('ipc')
-
-# :eyeroll:
-try:
-    import msgpack_numpy
-    Unpacker = msgpack_numpy.Unpacker
-except ImportError:
-    # just plain ``msgpack`` requires tweaking key settings
-    Unpacker = partial(msgpack.Unpacker, strict_map_key=False)
+from ._exceptions import TransportClosed
+log = get_logger(__name__)
 
 
-class MsgpackStream:
-    """A ``trio.SocketStream`` delivering ``msgpack`` formatted data.
-    """
+_is_windows = platform.system() == 'Windows'
+log = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+def get_stream_addrs(stream: trio.SocketStream) -> tuple:
+    # should both be IP sockets
+    lsockname = stream.socket.getsockname()
+    rsockname = stream.socket.getpeername()
+    return (
+        tuple(lsockname[:2]),
+        tuple(rsockname[:2]),
+    )
+
+
+MsgType = TypeVar("MsgType")
+
+# TODO: consider using a generic def and indexing with our eventual
+# msg definition/types?
+# - https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Protocol
+# - https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/usage.html#structs
+
+
+@runtime_checkable
+class MsgTransport(Protocol[MsgType]):
+
+    stream: trio.SocketStream
+    drained: list[MsgType]
+
     def __init__(self, stream: trio.SocketStream) -> None:
+        ...
+
+    # XXX: should this instead be called `.sendall()`?
+    async def send(self, msg: MsgType) -> None:
+        ...
+
+    async def recv(self) -> MsgType:
+        ...
+
+    def __aiter__(self) -> MsgType:
+        ...
+
+    def connected(self) -> bool:
+        ...
+
+    # defining this sync otherwise it causes a mypy error because it
+    # can't figure out it's a generator i guess?..?
+    def drain(self) -> AsyncIterator[dict]:
+        ...
+
+    @property
+    def laddr(self) -> tuple[str, int]:
+        ...
+
+    @property
+    def raddr(self) -> tuple[str, int]:
+        ...
+
+
+# TODO: not sure why we have to inherit here, but it seems to be an
+# issue with ``get_msg_transport()`` returning a ``Type[Protocol]``;
+# probably should make a `mypy` issue?
+class MsgpackTCPStream(MsgTransport):
+    '''
+    A ``trio.SocketStream`` delivering ``msgpack`` formatted data
+    using the ``msgspec`` codec lib.
+
+    '''
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        stream: trio.SocketStream,
+        prefix_size: int = 4,
+
+    ) -> None:
+
         self.stream = stream
         assert self.stream.socket
-        # should both be IP sockets
-        lsockname = stream.socket.getsockname()
-        assert isinstance(lsockname, tuple)
-        self._laddr = lsockname[:2]
-        rsockname = stream.socket.getpeername()
-        assert isinstance(rsockname, tuple)
-        self._raddr = rsockname[:2]
 
+        # should both be IP sockets
+        self._laddr, self._raddr = get_stream_addrs(stream)
+
+        # create read loop instance
         self._agen = self._iter_packets()
         self._send_lock = trio.StrictFIFOLock()
 
-    async def _iter_packets(self) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[dict, None]:
-        """Yield packets from the underlying stream.
-        """
-        unpacker = Unpacker(
-            raw=False,
-            use_list=False,
-        )
+        # public i guess?
+        self.drained: list[dict] = []
+
+        self.recv_stream = BufferedReceiveStream(transport_stream=stream)
+        self.prefix_size = prefix_size
+
+        # TODO: struct aware messaging coders
+        self.encode = msgspec.msgpack.Encoder().encode
+        self.decode = msgspec.msgpack.Decoder().decode  # dict[str, Any])
+
+    async def _iter_packets(self) -> AsyncGenerator[dict, None]:
+        '''Yield packets from the underlying stream.
+
+        '''
+        import msgspec  # noqa
+        decodes_failed: int = 0
+
         while True:
             try:
-                data = await self.stream.receive_some(2**10)
-                log.trace(f"received {data}")  # type: ignore
-            except trio.BrokenResourceError:
-                log.warning(f"Stream connection {self.raddr} broke")
-                return
+                header = await self.recv_stream.receive_exactly(4)
 
-            if data == b'':
-                log.debug(f"Stream connection {self.raddr} was closed")
-                return
+            except (
+                ValueError,
+                ConnectionResetError,
 
-            unpacker.feed(data)
-            for packet in unpacker:
-                yield packet
+                # not sure entirely why we need this but without it we
+                # seem to be getting racy failures here on
+                # arbiter/registry name subs..
+                trio.BrokenResourceError,
+            ):
+                raise TransportClosed(
+                    f'transport {self} was already closed prior ro read'
+                )
+
+            if header == b'':
+                raise TransportClosed(
+                    f'transport {self} was already closed prior ro read'
+                )
+
+            size, = struct.unpack("<I", header)
+
+            log.transport(f'received header {size}')  # type: ignore
+
+            msg_bytes = await self.recv_stream.receive_exactly(size)
+
+            log.transport(f"received {msg_bytes}")  # type: ignore
+            try:
+                yield self.decode(msg_bytes)
+            except (
+                msgspec.DecodeError,
+                UnicodeDecodeError,
+            ):
+                if decodes_failed < 4:
+                    # ignore decoding errors for now and assume they have to
+                    # do with a channel drop - hope that receiving from the
+                    # channel will raise an expected error and bubble up.
+                    try:
+                        msg_str: str | bytes = msg_bytes.decode()
+                    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                        msg_str = msg_bytes
+
+                    log.error(
+                        '`msgspec` failed to decode!?\n'
+                        'dumping bytes:\n'
+                        f'{msg_str!r}'
+                    )
+                    decodes_failed += 1
+                else:
+                    raise
+
+    async def send(self, msg: Any) -> None:
+        async with self._send_lock:
+
+            bytes_data: bytes = self.encode(msg)
+
+            # supposedly the fastest says,
+            # https://stackoverflow.com/a/54027962
+            size: bytes = struct.pack("<I", len(bytes_data))
+
+            return await self.stream.send_all(size + bytes_data)
 
     @property
-    def laddr(self) -> Tuple[Any, ...]:
+    def laddr(self) -> tuple[str, int]:
         return self._laddr
 
     @property
-    def raddr(self) -> Tuple[Any, ...]:
+    def raddr(self) -> tuple[str, int]:
         return self._raddr
 
-    # XXX: should this instead be called `.sendall()`?
-    async def send(self, data: Any) -> None:
-        async with self._send_lock:
-            return await self.stream.send_all(
-                msgpack.dumps(data, use_bin_type=True))
-
     async def recv(self) -> Any:
         return await self._agen.asend(None)
 
+    async def drain(self) -> AsyncIterator[dict]:
+        '''
+        Drain the stream's remaining messages sent from
+        the far end until the connection is closed by
+        the peer.
+
+        '''
+        try:
+            async for msg in self._iter_packets():
+                self.drained.append(msg)
+        except TransportClosed:
+            for msg in self.drained:
+                yield msg
+
     def __aiter__(self):
         return self._agen
 
@@ -86,32 +242,87 @@ class MsgpackStream:
         return self.stream.socket.fileno() != -1
 
 
-class Channel:
-    """An inter-process channel for communication between (remote) actors.
+def get_msg_transport(
 
-    Currently the only supported transport is a ``trio.SocketStream``.
-    """
+    key: tuple[str, str],
+
+) -> Type[MsgTransport]:
+
+    return {
+        ('msgpack', 'tcp'): MsgpackTCPStream,
+    }[key]
+
+
+class Channel:
+    '''
+    An inter-process channel for communication between (remote) actors.
+
+    Wraps a ``MsgStream``: transport + encoding IPC connection.
+
+    Currently we only support ``trio.SocketStream`` for transport
+    (aka TCP) and the ``msgpack`` interchange format via the ``msgspec``
+    codec libary.
+
+    '''
     def __init__(
+
         self,
-        destaddr: Optional[Tuple[str, int]] = None,
-        on_reconnect: typing.Callable[..., typing.Awaitable] = None,
-        auto_reconnect: bool = False,
-        stream: trio.SocketStream = None,  # expected to be active
+        destaddr: Optional[tuple[str, int]],
+
+        msg_transport_type_key: tuple[str, str] = ('msgpack', 'tcp'),
+
+        # TODO: optional reconnection support?
+        # auto_reconnect: bool = False,
+        # on_reconnect: typing.Callable[..., typing.Awaitable] = None,
+
     ) -> None:
-        self._recon_seq = on_reconnect
-        self._autorecon = auto_reconnect
-        self.msgstream: Optional[MsgpackStream] = MsgpackStream(
-            stream) if stream else None
-        if self.msgstream and destaddr:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"A stream was provided with local addr {self.laddr}"
-            )
-        self._destaddr = self.msgstream.raddr if self.msgstream else destaddr
+
+        # self._recon_seq = on_reconnect
+        # self._autorecon = auto_reconnect
+
+        self._destaddr = destaddr
+        self._transport_key = msg_transport_type_key
+
+        # Either created in ``.connect()`` or passed in by
+        # user in ``.from_stream()``.
+        self._stream: Optional[trio.SocketStream] = None
+        self.msgstream: Optional[MsgTransport] = None
+
         # set after handshake - always uid of far end
-        self.uid: Optional[Tuple[str, str]] = None
-        # set if far end actor errors internally
-        self._exc: Optional[Exception] = None
+        self.uid: Optional[tuple[str, str]] = None
+
         self._agen = self._aiter_recv()
+        self._exc: Optional[Exception] = None  # set if far end actor errors
+        self._closed: bool = False
+        # flag set on ``Portal.cancel_actor()`` indicating
+        # remote (peer) cancellation of the far end actor runtime.
+        self._cancel_called: bool = False  # set on ``Portal.cancel_actor()``
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_stream(
+        cls,
+        stream: trio.SocketStream,
+        **kwargs,
+
+    ) -> Channel:
+
+        src, dst = get_stream_addrs(stream)
+        chan = Channel(destaddr=dst, **kwargs)
+
+        # set immediately here from provided instance
+        chan._stream = stream
+        chan.set_msg_transport(stream)
+        return chan
+
+    def set_msg_transport(
+        self,
+        stream: trio.SocketStream,
+        type_key: Optional[tuple[str, str]] = None,
+
+    ) -> MsgTransport:
+        type_key = type_key or self._transport_key
+        self.msgstream = get_msg_transport(type_key)(stream)
+        return self.msgstream
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         if self.msgstream:
@@ -121,43 +332,65 @@ class Channel:
         return object.__repr__(self)
 
     @property
-    def laddr(self) -> Optional[Tuple[Any, ...]]:
+    def laddr(self) -> Optional[tuple[str, int]]:
         return self.msgstream.laddr if self.msgstream else None
 
     @property
-    def raddr(self) -> Optional[Tuple[Any, ...]]:
+    def raddr(self) -> Optional[tuple[str, int]]:
         return self.msgstream.raddr if self.msgstream else None
 
     async def connect(
-        self, destaddr: Tuple[Any, ...] = None,
+        self,
+        destaddr: tuple[Any, ...] | None = None,
         **kwargs
-    ) -> trio.SocketStream:
+
+    ) -> MsgTransport:
+
         if self.connected():
             raise RuntimeError("channel is already connected?")
+
         destaddr = destaddr or self._destaddr
         assert isinstance(destaddr, tuple)
-        stream = await trio.open_tcp_stream(*destaddr, **kwargs)
-        self.msgstream = MsgpackStream(stream)
-        return stream
+
+        stream = await trio.open_tcp_stream(
+            *destaddr,
+            **kwargs
+        )
+        msgstream = self.set_msg_transport(stream)
+
+        log.transport(
+            f'Opened channel[{type(msgstream)}]: {self.laddr} -> {self.raddr}'
+        )
+        return msgstream
 
     async def send(self, item: Any) -> None:
-        log.trace(f"send `{item}`")  # type: ignore
+
+        log.transport(f"send `{item}`")  # type: ignore
         assert self.msgstream
+
         await self.msgstream.send(item)
 
     async def recv(self) -> Any:
         assert self.msgstream
-        try:
-            return await self.msgstream.recv()
-        except trio.BrokenResourceError:
-            if self._autorecon:
-                await self._reconnect()
-                return await self.recv()
+        return await self.msgstream.recv()
+
+        # try:
+        #     return await self.msgstream.recv()
+        # except trio.BrokenResourceError:
+        #     if self._autorecon:
+        #         await self._reconnect()
+        #         return await self.recv()
+        #     raise
 
     async def aclose(self) -> None:
-        log.debug(f"Closing {self}")
+
+        log.transport(
+            f'Closing channel to {self.uid} '
+            f'{self.laddr} -> {self.raddr}'
+        )
         assert self.msgstream
         await self.msgstream.stream.aclose()
+        self._closed = True
 
     async def __aenter__(self):
         await self.connect()
@@ -169,40 +402,44 @@ class Channel:
     def __aiter__(self):
         return self._agen
 
-    async def _reconnect(self) -> None:
-        """Handle connection failures by polling until a reconnect can be
-        established.
-        """
-        down = False
-        while True:
-            try:
-                with trio.move_on_after(3) as cancel_scope:
-                    await self.connect()
-                cancelled = cancel_scope.cancelled_caught
-                if cancelled:
-                    log.warning(
-                        "Reconnect timed out after 3 seconds, retrying...")
-                    continue
-                else:
-                    log.warning("Stream connection re-established!")
-                    # run any reconnection sequence
-                    on_recon = self._recon_seq
-                    if on_recon:
-                        await on_recon(self)
-                    break
-            except (OSError, ConnectionRefusedError):
-                if not down:
-                    down = True
-                    log.warning(
-                        f"Connection to {self.raddr} went down, waiting"
-                        " for re-establishment")
-                await trio.sleep(1)
+    # async def _reconnect(self) -> None:
+    #     """Handle connection failures by polling until a reconnect can be
+    #     established.
+    #     """
+    #     down = False
+    #     while True:
+    #         try:
+    #             with trio.move_on_after(3) as cancel_scope:
+    #                 await self.connect()
+    #             cancelled = cancel_scope.cancelled_caught
+    #             if cancelled:
+    #                 log.transport(
+    #                     "Reconnect timed out after 3 seconds, retrying...")
+    #                 continue
+    #             else:
+    #                 log.transport("Stream connection re-established!")
+
+    #                 # TODO: run any reconnection sequence
+    #                 # on_recon = self._recon_seq
+    #                 # if on_recon:
+    #                 #     await on_recon(self)
+
+    #                 break
+    #         except (OSError, ConnectionRefusedError):
+    #             if not down:
+    #                 down = True
+    #                 log.transport(
+    #                     f"Connection to {self.raddr} went down, waiting"
+    #                     " for re-establishment")
+    #             await trio.sleep(1)
 
     async def _aiter_recv(
         self
-    ) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[Any, None]:
-        """Async iterate items from underlying stream.
-        """
+    ) -> AsyncGenerator[Any, None]:
+        '''
+        Async iterate items from underlying stream.
+
+        '''
         assert self.msgstream
         while True:
             try:
@@ -215,16 +452,14 @@ class Channel:
                     #     await self.msgstream.send(sent)
             except trio.BrokenResourceError:
 
-                if not self._autorecon:
-                    raise
+                # if not self._autorecon:
+                raise
 
             await self.aclose()
 
-            if self._autorecon:  # attempt reconnect
-                await self._reconnect()
-                continue
-            else:
-                return
+            # if self._autorecon:  # attempt reconnect
+            #     await self._reconnect()
+            #     continue
 
     def connected(self) -> bool:
         return self.msgstream.connected() if self.msgstream else False
@@ -234,9 +469,11 @@ class Channel:
 async def _connect_chan(
     host: str, port: int
 ) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[Channel, None]:
-    """Create and connect a channel with disconnect on context manager
+    '''
+    Create and connect a channel with disconnect on context manager
     teardown.
-    """
+
+    '''
     chan = Channel((host, port))
     await chan.connect()
     yield chan

tractor/_mp_fixup_main.py

@@ -1,23 +1,39 @@
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
 """
 Helpers pulled mostly verbatim from ``multiprocessing.spawn``
 to aid with "fixing up" the ``__main__`` module in subprocesses.
 
-These helpers are needed for any spawing backend that doesn't already handle this.
-For example when using ``trio_run_in_process`` it is needed but obviously not when
-we're already using ``multiprocessing``.
+These helpers are needed for any spawing backend that doesn't already
+handle this. For example when using ``trio_run_in_process`` it is needed
+but obviously not when we're already using ``multiprocessing``.
+
 """
 import os
 import sys
 import platform
 import types
 import runpy
-from typing import Dict
 
 
 ORIGINAL_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.getcwd())
 
 
-def _mp_figure_out_main() -> Dict[str, str]:
+def _mp_figure_out_main() -> dict[str, str]:
     """Taken from ``multiprocessing.spawn.get_preparation_data()``.
 
     Retrieve parent actor `__main__` module data.

tractor/_portal.py

@@ -1,287 +1,145 @@
-"""
-Portal api
-"""
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+'''
+Memory boundary "Portals": an API for structured
+concurrency linked tasks running in disparate memory domains.
+
+'''
+from __future__ import annotations
 import importlib
 import inspect
-import typing
-from typing import Tuple, Any, Dict, Optional, Set, Iterator
+from typing import (
+    Any, Optional,
+    Callable, AsyncGenerator,
+    Type,
+)
 from functools import partial
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from contextlib import contextmanager
+from pprint import pformat
 import warnings
 
 import trio
 from async_generator import asynccontextmanager
 
+from .trionics import maybe_open_nursery
 from ._state import current_actor
 from ._ipc import Channel
 from .log import get_logger
-from ._exceptions import unpack_error, NoResult, RemoteActorError
+from .msg import NamespacePath
+from ._exceptions import (
+    unpack_error,
+    NoResult,
+    ContextCancelled,
+)
+from ._streaming import (
+    Context,
+    MsgStream,
+)
 
 
-log = get_logger('tractor')
+log = get_logger(__name__)
 
 
-@asynccontextmanager
-async def maybe_open_nursery(
-    nursery: trio.Nursery = None,
-    shield: bool = False,
-) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[trio.Nursery, Any]:
-    """Create a new nursery if None provided.
+def _unwrap_msg(
+    msg: dict[str, Any],
+    channel: Channel
 
-    Blocks on exit as expected if no input nursery is provided.
-    """
-    if nursery is not None:
-        yield nursery
-    else:
-        async with trio.open_nursery() as nursery:
-            nursery.cancel_scope.shield = shield
-            yield nursery
+) -> Any:
+    __tracebackhide__ = True
+    try:
+        return msg['return']
+    except KeyError:
+        # internal error should never get here
+        assert msg.get('cid'), "Received internal error at portal?"
+        raise unpack_error(msg, channel) from None
 
 
-class ReceiveStream(trio.abc.ReceiveChannel):
-    """A wrapper around a ``trio._channel.MemoryReceiveChannel`` with
-    special behaviour for signalling stream termination across an
-    inter-actor ``Channel``. This is the type returned to a local task
-    which invoked a remote streaming function using `Portal.run()`.
-
-    Termination rules:
-    - if the local task signals stop iteration a cancel signal is
-      relayed to the remote task indicating to stop streaming
-    - if the remote task signals the end of a stream, raise a
-      ``StopAsyncIteration`` to terminate the local ``async for``
-
-    """
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        cid: str,
-        rx_chan: trio.abc.ReceiveChannel,
-        portal: 'Portal',
-    ) -> None:
-        self._cid = cid
-        self._rx_chan = rx_chan
-        self._portal = portal
-        self._shielded = False
-
-    # delegate directly to underlying mem channel
-    def receive_nowait(self):
-        return self._rx_chan.receive_nowait()
-
-    async def receive(self):
-        try:
-            msg = await self._rx_chan.receive()
-            return msg['yield']
-        except trio.ClosedResourceError:
-            # when the send is closed we assume the stream has
-            # terminated and signal this local iterator to stop
-            await self.aclose()
-            raise StopAsyncIteration
-        except trio.Cancelled:
-            # relay cancels to the remote task
-            await self.aclose()
-            raise
-        except KeyError:
-            # internal error should never get here
-            assert msg.get('cid'), (
-                "Received internal error at portal?")
-            raise unpack_error(msg, self._portal.channel)
-
-    @contextmanager
-    def shield(
-        self
-    ) -> Iterator['ReceiveStream']:  # noqa
-        """Shield this stream's underlying channel such that a local consumer task
-        can be cancelled (and possibly restarted) using ``trio.Cancelled``.
-
-        """
-        self._shielded = True
-        yield self
-        self._shielded = False
-
-    async def aclose(self):
-        """Cancel associated remote actor task and local memory channel
-        on close.
-        """
-        if self._rx_chan._closed:
-            log.warning(f"{self} is already closed")
-            return
-
-        if self._shielded:
-            log.warning(f"{self} is shielded, portal channel being kept alive")
-            return
-
-        cid = self._cid
-        with trio.move_on_after(0.5) as cs:
-            cs.shield = True
-            log.warning(
-                f"Cancelling stream {cid} to "
-                f"{self._portal.channel.uid}")
-
-            # NOTE: we're telling the far end actor to cancel a task
-            # corresponding to *this actor*. The far end local channel
-            # instance is passed to `Actor._cancel_task()` implicitly.
-            await self._portal.run_from_ns('self', '_cancel_task', cid=cid)
-
-        if cs.cancelled_caught:
-            # XXX: there's no way to know if the remote task was indeed
-            # cancelled in the case where the connection is broken or
-            # some other network error occurred.
-            if not self._portal.channel.connected():
-                log.warning(
-                    "May have failed to cancel remote task "
-                    f"{cid} for {self._portal.channel.uid}")
-
-        with trio.CancelScope(shield=True):
-            await self._rx_chan.aclose()
-
-    def clone(self):
-        return self
+class MessagingError(Exception):
+    'Some kind of unexpected SC messaging dialog issue'
 
 
 class Portal:
-    """A 'portal' to a(n) (remote) ``Actor``.
+    '''
+    A 'portal' to a(n) (remote) ``Actor``.
 
-    Allows for invoking remote routines and receiving results through an
-    underlying ``tractor.Channel`` as though the remote (async)
-    function / generator was invoked locally.
+    A portal is "opened" (and eventually closed) by one side of an
+    inter-actor communication context. The side which opens the portal
+    is equivalent to a "caller" in function parlance and usually is
+    either the called actor's parent (in process tree hierarchy terms)
+    or a client interested in scheduling work to be done remotely in a
+    far process.
+
+    The portal api allows the "caller" actor to invoke remote routines
+    and receive results through an underlying ``tractor.Channel`` as
+    though the remote (async) function / generator was called locally.
+    It may be thought of loosely as an RPC api where native Python
+    function calling semantics are supported transparently; hence it is
+    like having a "portal" between the seperate actor memory spaces.
+
+    '''
+    # the timeout for a remote cancel request sent to
+    # a(n) (peer) actor.
+    cancel_timeout = 0.5
 
-    Think of this like a native async IPC API.
-    """
     def __init__(self, channel: Channel) -> None:
         self.channel = channel
-        # when this is set to a tuple returned from ``_submit()`` then
-        # it is expected that ``result()`` will be awaited at some point
         # during the portal's lifetime
-        self._result: Optional[Any] = None
-        # set when _submit_for_result is called
-        self._expect_result: Optional[
-            Tuple[str, Any, str, Dict[str, Any]]
-        ] = None
-        self._streams: Set[ReceiveStream] = set()
+        self._result_msg: Optional[dict] = None
+
+        # When set to a ``Context`` (when _submit_for_result is called)
+        # it is expected that ``result()`` will be awaited at some
+        # point.
+        self._expect_result: Optional[Context] = None
+        self._streams: set[MsgStream] = set()
         self.actor = current_actor()
 
-    async def _submit(
+    async def _submit_for_result(
         self,
         ns: str,
         func: str,
-        kwargs,
-    ) -> Tuple[str, trio.abc.ReceiveChannel, str, Dict[str, Any]]:
-        """Submit a function to be scheduled and run by actor, return the
-        associated caller id, response queue, response type str,
-        first message packet as a tuple.
+        **kwargs
+    ) -> None:
 
-        This is an async call.
-        """
-        # ship a function call request to the remote actor
-        cid, recv_chan = await self.actor.send_cmd(
-            self.channel, ns, func, kwargs)
-
-        # wait on first response msg and handle (this should be
-        # in an immediate response)
-
-        first_msg = await recv_chan.receive()
-        functype = first_msg.get('functype')
-
-        if functype == 'function' or functype == 'asyncfunction':
-            resp_type = 'return'
-        elif functype == 'asyncgen':
-            resp_type = 'yield'
-        elif 'error' in first_msg:
-            raise unpack_error(first_msg, self.channel)
-        else:
-            raise ValueError(f"{first_msg} is an invalid response packet?")
-
-        return cid, recv_chan, resp_type, first_msg
-
-    async def _submit_for_result(self, ns: str, func: str, **kwargs) -> None:
         assert self._expect_result is None, \
                 "A pending main result has already been submitted"
-        self._expect_result = await self._submit(ns, func, kwargs)
 
-    async def run(
-        self,
-        func_or_ns: str,
-        fn_name: Optional[str] = None,
-        **kwargs
-    ) -> Any:
-        """Submit a remote function to be scheduled and run by actor, in
-        a new task, wrap and return its (stream of) result(s).
-
-        This is a blocking call and returns either a value from the
-        remote rpc task or a local async generator instance.
-        """
-        if isinstance(func_or_ns, str):
-            warnings.warn(
-                "`Portal.run(namespace: str, funcname: str)` is now"
-                "deprecated, pass a function reference directly instead\n"
-                "If you still want to run a remote function by name use"
-                "`Portal.run_from_ns()`",
-                DeprecationWarning,
-                stacklevel=2,
-            )
-            fn_mod_path = func_or_ns
-            assert isinstance(fn_name, str)
-
-        else:  # function reference was passed directly
-            fn = func_or_ns
-            fn_mod_path = fn.__module__
-            fn_name = fn.__name__
-
-        return await self._return_from_resptype(
-            *(await self._submit(fn_mod_path, fn_name, kwargs))
+        self._expect_result = await self.actor.start_remote_task(
+            self.channel,
+            ns,
+            func,
+            kwargs
         )
 
-    async def run_from_ns(
+    async def _return_once(
         self,
-        namespace_path: str,
-        function_name: str,
-        **kwargs,
-    ) -> Any:
-        """Run a function from a (remote) namespace in a new task on the far-end actor.
+        ctx: Context,
 
-        This is a more explitcit way to run tasks in a remote-process
-        actor using explicit object-path syntax. Hint: this is how
-        `.run()` works underneath.
+    ) -> dict[str, Any]:
 
-        Note::
-
-            A special namespace `self` can be used to invoke `Actor`
-            instance methods in the remote runtime. Currently this should only
-            be used for `tractor` internals.
-        """
-        return await self._return_from_resptype(
-            *(await self._submit(namespace_path, function_name, kwargs))
-        )
-
-    async def _return_from_resptype(
-        self,
-        cid: str,
-        recv_chan: trio.abc.ReceiveChannel,
-        resptype: str,
-        first_msg: dict
-    ) -> Any:
-        # TODO: not this needs some serious work and thinking about how
-        # to make async-generators the fundamental IPC API over channels!
-        # (think `yield from`, `gen.send()`, and functional reactive stuff)
-        if resptype == 'yield':  # stream response
-            rchan = ReceiveStream(cid, recv_chan, self)
-            self._streams.add(rchan)
-            return rchan
-
-        elif resptype == 'return':  # single response
-            msg = await recv_chan.receive()
-            try:
-                return msg['return']
-            except KeyError:
-                # internal error should never get here
-                assert msg.get('cid'), "Received internal error at portal?"
-                raise unpack_error(msg, self.channel)
-        else:
-            raise ValueError(f"Unknown msg response type: {first_msg}")
+        assert ctx._remote_func_type == 'asyncfunc'  # single response
+        msg = await ctx._recv_chan.receive()
+        return msg
 
     async def result(self) -> Any:
-        """Return the result(s) from the remote actor's "main" task.
-        """
+        '''
+        Return the result(s) from the remote actor's "main" task.
+
+        '''
+        # __tracebackhide__ = True
         # Check for non-rpc errors slapped on the
         # channel for which we always raise
         exc = self.channel._exc
@@ -298,25 +156,19 @@ class Portal:
 
         # expecting a "main" result
         assert self._expect_result
-        if self._result is None:
-            try:
-                self._result = await self._return_from_resptype(
-                    *self._expect_result
-                )
-            except RemoteActorError as err:
-                self._result = err
 
-        # re-raise error on every call
-        if isinstance(self._result, RemoteActorError):
-            raise self._result
+        if self._result_msg is None:
+            self._result_msg = await self._return_once(
+                self._expect_result
+            )
 
-        return self._result
+        return _unwrap_msg(self._result_msg, self.channel)
 
     async def _cancel_streams(self):
         # terminate all locally running async generator
         # IPC calls
         if self._streams:
-            log.warning(
+            log.cancel(
                 f"Cancelling all streams with {self.channel.uid}")
             for stream in self._streams.copy():
                 try:
@@ -335,80 +187,407 @@ class Portal:
         # we'll need to .aclose all those channels here
         await self._cancel_streams()
 
-    async def cancel_actor(self):
-        """Cancel the actor on the other end of this portal.
-        """
+    async def cancel_actor(
+        self,
+        timeout: float | None = None,
+
+    ) -> bool:
+        '''
+        Cancel the actor on the other end of this portal.
+
+        '''
         if not self.channel.connected():
-            log.warning("This portal is already closed can't cancel")
+            log.cancel("This channel is already closed can't cancel")
             return False
 
-        await self._cancel_streams()
-
-        log.warning(
+        log.cancel(
             f"Sending actor cancel request to {self.channel.uid} on "
             f"{self.channel}")
+
+        self.channel._cancel_called = True
+
         try:
             # send cancel cmd - might not get response
             # XXX: sure would be nice to make this work with a proper shield
-            # with trio.CancelScope() as cancel_scope:
-            # with trio.CancelScope(shield=True) as cancel_scope:
-            with trio.move_on_after(0.5) as cancel_scope:
-                cancel_scope.shield = True
+            with trio.move_on_after(timeout or self.cancel_timeout) as cs:
+                cs.shield = True
 
                 await self.run_from_ns('self', 'cancel')
                 return True
 
-            if cancel_scope.cancelled_caught:
-                log.warning(f"May have failed to cancel {self.channel.uid}")
+            if cs.cancelled_caught:
+                log.cancel(f"May have failed to cancel {self.channel.uid}")
 
             # if we get here some weird cancellation case happened
             return False
 
-        except trio.ClosedResourceError:
-            log.warning(
-                f"{self.channel} for {self.channel.uid} was already closed?")
+        except (
+            trio.ClosedResourceError,
+            trio.BrokenResourceError,
+        ):
+            log.cancel(
+                f"{self.channel} for {self.channel.uid} was already "
+                "closed or broken?")
             return False
 
+    async def run_from_ns(
+        self,
+        namespace_path: str,
+        function_name: str,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> Any:
+        '''
+        Run a function from a (remote) namespace in a new task on the
+        far-end actor.
+
+        This is a more explitcit way to run tasks in a remote-process
+        actor using explicit object-path syntax. Hint: this is how
+        `.run()` works underneath.
+
+        Note::
+
+            A special namespace `self` can be used to invoke `Actor`
+            instance methods in the remote runtime. Currently this
+            should only be used solely for ``tractor`` runtime
+            internals.
+
+        '''
+        ctx = await self.actor.start_remote_task(
+            self.channel,
+            namespace_path,
+            function_name,
+            kwargs,
+        )
+        ctx._portal = self
+        msg = await self._return_once(ctx)
+        return _unwrap_msg(msg, self.channel)
+
+    async def run(
+        self,
+        func: str,
+        fn_name: Optional[str] = None,
+        **kwargs
+    ) -> Any:
+        '''
+        Submit a remote function to be scheduled and run by actor, in
+        a new task, wrap and return its (stream of) result(s).
+
+        This is a blocking call and returns either a value from the
+        remote rpc task or a local async generator instance.
+
+        '''
+        if isinstance(func, str):
+            warnings.warn(
+                "`Portal.run(namespace: str, funcname: str)` is now"
+                "deprecated, pass a function reference directly instead\n"
+                "If you still want to run a remote function by name use"
+                "`Portal.run_from_ns()`",
+                DeprecationWarning,
+                stacklevel=2,
+            )
+            fn_mod_path = func
+            assert isinstance(fn_name, str)
+
+        else:  # function reference was passed directly
+            if (
+                not inspect.iscoroutinefunction(func) or
+                (
+                    inspect.iscoroutinefunction(func) and
+                    getattr(func, '_tractor_stream_function', False)
+                )
+            ):
+                raise TypeError(
+                    f'{func} must be a non-streaming async function!')
+
+            fn_mod_path, fn_name = NamespacePath.from_ref(func).to_tuple()
+
+        ctx = await self.actor.start_remote_task(
+            self.channel,
+            fn_mod_path,
+            fn_name,
+            kwargs,
+        )
+        ctx._portal = self
+        return _unwrap_msg(
+            await self._return_once(ctx),
+            self.channel,
+        )
+
+    @asynccontextmanager
+    async def open_stream_from(
+        self,
+        async_gen_func: Callable,  # typing: ignore
+        **kwargs,
+
+    ) -> AsyncGenerator[MsgStream, None]:
+
+        if not inspect.isasyncgenfunction(async_gen_func):
+            if not (
+                inspect.iscoroutinefunction(async_gen_func) and
+                getattr(async_gen_func, '_tractor_stream_function', False)
+            ):
+                raise TypeError(
+                    f'{async_gen_func} must be an async generator function!')
+
+        fn_mod_path, fn_name = NamespacePath.from_ref(
+            async_gen_func).to_tuple()
+        ctx = await self.actor.start_remote_task(
+            self.channel,
+            fn_mod_path,
+            fn_name,
+            kwargs
+        )
+        ctx._portal = self
+
+        # ensure receive-only stream entrypoint
+        assert ctx._remote_func_type == 'asyncgen'
+
+        try:
+            # deliver receive only stream
+            async with MsgStream(
+                ctx, ctx._recv_chan,
+            ) as rchan:
+                self._streams.add(rchan)
+                yield rchan
+
+        finally:
+
+            # cancel the far end task on consumer close
+            # NOTE: this is a special case since we assume that if using
+            # this ``.open_fream_from()`` api, the stream is one a one
+            # time use and we couple the far end tasks's lifetime to
+            # the consumer's scope; we don't ever send a `'stop'`
+            # message right now since there shouldn't be a reason to
+            # stop and restart the stream, right?
+            try:
+                with trio.CancelScope(shield=True):
+                    await ctx.cancel()
+
+            except trio.ClosedResourceError:
+                # if the far end terminates before we send a cancel the
+                # underlying transport-channel may already be closed.
+                log.cancel(f'Context {ctx} was already closed?')
+
+            # XXX: should this always be done?
+            # await recv_chan.aclose()
+            self._streams.remove(rchan)
+
+    @asynccontextmanager
+    async def open_context(
+
+        self,
+        func: Callable,
+        **kwargs,
+
+    ) -> AsyncGenerator[tuple[Context, Any], None]:
+        '''
+        Open an inter-actor task context.
+
+        This is a synchronous API which allows for deterministic
+        setup/teardown of a remote task. The yielded ``Context`` further
+        allows for opening bidirectional streams, explicit cancellation
+        and synchronized final result collection. See ``tractor.Context``.
+
+        '''
+        # conduct target func method structural checks
+        if not inspect.iscoroutinefunction(func) and (
+            getattr(func, '_tractor_contex_function', False)
+        ):
+            raise TypeError(
+                f'{func} must be an async generator function!')
+
+        fn_mod_path, fn_name = NamespacePath.from_ref(func).to_tuple()
+
+        ctx = await self.actor.start_remote_task(
+            self.channel,
+            fn_mod_path,
+            fn_name,
+            kwargs
+        )
+
+        assert ctx._remote_func_type == 'context'
+        msg = await ctx._recv_chan.receive()
+
+        try:
+            # the "first" value here is delivered by the callee's
+            # ``Context.started()`` call.
+            first = msg['started']
+            ctx._started_called = True
+
+        except KeyError:
+            assert msg.get('cid'), ("Received internal error at context?")
+
+            if msg.get('error'):
+                # raise kerr from unpack_error(msg, self.channel)
+                raise unpack_error(msg, self.channel) from None
+            else:
+                raise MessagingError(
+                    f'Context for {ctx.cid} was expecting a `started` message'
+                    f' but received a non-error msg:\n{pformat(msg)}'
+                )
+
+        _err: Optional[BaseException] = None
+        ctx._portal = self
+
+        uid = self.channel.uid
+        cid = ctx.cid
+        etype: Optional[Type[BaseException]] = None
+
+        # deliver context instance and .started() msg value in open tuple.
+        try:
+            async with trio.open_nursery() as scope_nursery:
+                ctx._scope_nursery = scope_nursery
+
+                # do we need this?
+                # await trio.lowlevel.checkpoint()
+
+                yield ctx, first
+
+        except ContextCancelled as err:
+            _err = err
+            if not ctx._cancel_called:
+                # context was cancelled at the far end but was
+                # not part of this end requesting that cancel
+                # so raise for the local task to respond and handle.
+                raise
+
+            # if the context was cancelled by client code
+            # then we don't need to raise since user code
+            # is expecting this and the block should exit.
+            else:
+                log.debug(f'Context {ctx} cancelled gracefully')
+
+        except (
+            BaseException,
+
+            # more specifically, we need to handle these but not
+            # sure it's worth being pedantic:
+            # Exception,
+            # trio.Cancelled,
+            # KeyboardInterrupt,
+
+        ) as err:
+            etype = type(err)
+            # the context cancels itself on any cancel
+            # causing error.
+
+            if ctx.chan.connected():
+                log.cancel(
+                    'Context cancelled for task, sending cancel request..\n'
+                    f'task:{cid}\n'
+                    f'actor:{uid}'
+                )
+                await ctx.cancel()
+            else:
+                log.warning(
+                    'IPC connection for context is broken?\n'
+                    f'task:{cid}\n'
+                    f'actor:{uid}'
+                )
+
+            raise
+
+        finally:
+            # in the case where a runtime nursery (due to internal bug)
+            # or a remote actor transmits an error we want to be
+            # sure we get the error the underlying feeder mem chan.
+            # if it's not raised here it *should* be raised from the
+            # msg loop nursery right?
+            if ctx.chan.connected():
+                log.info(
+                    'Waiting on final context-task result for\n'
+                    f'task: {cid}\n'
+                    f'actor: {uid}'
+                )
+                result = await ctx.result()
+                log.runtime(
+                    f'Context {fn_name} returned '
+                    f'value from callee `{result}`'
+                )
+
+            # though it should be impossible for any tasks
+            # operating *in* this scope to have survived
+            # we tear down the runtime feeder chan last
+            # to avoid premature stream clobbers.
+            if ctx._recv_chan is not None:
+                # should we encapsulate this in the context api?
+                await ctx._recv_chan.aclose()
+
+            if etype:
+                if ctx._cancel_called:
+                    log.cancel(
+                        f'Context {fn_name} cancelled by caller with\n{etype}'
+                    )
+                elif _err is not None:
+                    log.cancel(
+                        f'Context for task cancelled by callee with {etype}\n'
+                        f'target: `{fn_name}`\n'
+                        f'task:{cid}\n'
+                        f'actor:{uid}'
+                    )
+            # XXX: (MEGA IMPORTANT) if this is a root opened process we
+            # wait for any immediate child in debug before popping the
+            # context from the runtime msg loop otherwise inside
+            # ``Actor._push_result()`` the msg will be discarded and in
+            # the case where that msg is global debugger unlock (via
+            # a "stop" msg for a stream), this can result in a deadlock
+            # where the root is waiting on the lock to clear but the
+            # child has already cleared it and clobbered IPC.
+            from ._debug import maybe_wait_for_debugger
+            await maybe_wait_for_debugger()
+
+            # remove the context from runtime tracking
+            self.actor._contexts.pop(
+                (self.channel.uid, ctx.cid),
+                None,
+            )
+
 
 @dataclass
 class LocalPortal:
-    """A 'portal' to a local ``Actor``.
+    '''
+    A 'portal' to a local ``Actor``.
 
     A compatibility shim for normal portals but for invoking functions
     using an in process actor instance.
-    """
+
+    '''
     actor: 'Actor'  # type: ignore # noqa
     channel: Channel
 
     async def run_from_ns(self, ns: str, func_name: str, **kwargs) -> Any:
-        """Run a requested local function from a namespace path and
+        '''
+        Run a requested local function from a namespace path and
         return it's result.
 
-        """
+        '''
         obj = self.actor if ns == 'self' else importlib.import_module(ns)
         func = getattr(obj, func_name)
-        if inspect.iscoroutinefunction(func):
-            return await func(**kwargs)
-        else:
-            return func(**kwargs)
+        return await func(**kwargs)
 
 
 @asynccontextmanager
 async def open_portal(
+
     channel: Channel,
     nursery: Optional[trio.Nursery] = None,
     start_msg_loop: bool = True,
     shield: bool = False,
-) -> typing.AsyncGenerator[Portal, None]:
-    """Open a ``Portal`` through the provided ``channel``.
 
-    Spawns a background task to handle message processing.
-    """
+) -> AsyncGenerator[Portal, None]:
+    '''
+    Open a ``Portal`` through the provided ``channel``.
+
+    Spawns a background task to handle message processing (normally
+    done by the actor-runtime implicitly).
+
+    '''
     actor = current_actor()
     assert actor
     was_connected = False
 
     async with maybe_open_nursery(nursery, shield=shield) as nursery:
+
         if not channel.connected():
             await channel.connect()
             was_connected = True
@@ -418,9 +597,11 @@ async def open_portal(
 
         msg_loop_cs: Optional[trio.CancelScope] = None
         if start_msg_loop:
+            from ._runtime import process_messages
             msg_loop_cs = await nursery.start(
                 partial(
-                    actor._process_messages,
+                    process_messages,
+                    actor,
                     channel,
                     # if the local task is cancelled we want to keep
                     # the msg loop running until our block ends
@@ -434,8 +615,9 @@ async def open_portal(
             await portal.aclose()
 
             if was_connected:
-                # cancel remote channel-msg loop
+                # gracefully signal remote channel-msg loop
                 await channel.send(None)
+                # await channel.aclose()
 
             # cancel background msg loop task
             if msg_loop_cs:

tractor/_root.py

@@ -1,27 +1,53 @@
-"""
+# tractor: structured concurrent "actors".
+# Copyright 2018-eternity Tyler Goodlet.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+'''
 Root actor runtime ignition(s).
-"""
+
+'''
 from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
 from functools import partial
 import importlib
+import logging
+import signal
+import sys
 import os
-from typing import Tuple, Optional, List, Any
 import typing
 import warnings
 
+
+from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup
 import trio
 
-from ._actor import Actor, Arbiter
+from ._runtime import (
+    Actor,
+    Arbiter,
+    async_main,
+)
 from . import _debug
 from . import _spawn
 from . import _state
 from . import log
 from ._ipc import _connect_chan
+from ._exceptions import is_multi_cancelled
 
 
 # set at startup and after forks
-_default_arbiter_host = '127.0.0.1'
-_default_arbiter_port = 1616
+_default_arbiter_host: str = '127.0.0.1'
+_default_arbiter_port: int = 1616
 
 
 logger = log.get_logger('tractor')
@@ -30,37 +56,45 @@ logger = log.get_logger('tractor')
 @asynccontextmanager
 async def open_root_actor(
 
+    *,
     # defaults are above
-    arbiter_addr: Tuple[str, int] = (
-        _default_arbiter_host,
-        _default_arbiter_port,
-    ),
+    arbiter_addr: tuple[str, int] | None = None,
 
-    name: Optional[str] = 'root',
+    # defaults are above
+    registry_addr: tuple[str, int] | None = None,
+
+    name: str | None = 'root',
 
     # either the `multiprocessing` start method:
     # https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html#contexts-and-start-methods
     # OR `trio` (the new default).
-    start_method: Optional[str] = None,
+    start_method: _spawn.SpawnMethodKey | None = None,
 
     # enables the multi-process debugger support
     debug_mode: bool = False,
 
     # internal logging
-    loglevel: Optional[str] = None,
+    loglevel: str | None = None,
 
-    enable_modules: Optional[List] = None,
-    rpc_module_paths: Optional[List] = None,
+    enable_modules: list | None = None,
+    rpc_module_paths: list | None = None,
 
 ) -> typing.Any:
-    """Async entry point for ``tractor``.
+    '''
+    Runtime init entry point for ``tractor``.
 
-    """
+    '''
     # Override the global debugger hook to make it play nice with
-    # ``trio``, see:
+    # ``trio``, see much discussion in:
     # https://github.com/python-trio/trio/issues/1155#issuecomment-742964018
+    builtin_bp_handler = sys.breakpointhook
+    orig_bp_path: str | None = os.environ.get('PYTHONBREAKPOINT', None)
     os.environ['PYTHONBREAKPOINT'] = 'tractor._debug._set_trace'
 
+    # attempt to retreive ``trio``'s sigint handler and stash it
+    # on our debugger lock state.
+    _debug.Lock._trio_handler = signal.getsignal(signal.SIGINT)
+
     # mark top most level process as root actor
     _state._runtime_vars['_is_root'] = True
 
@@ -79,6 +113,25 @@ async def open_root_actor(
     if start_method is not None:
         _spawn.try_set_start_method(start_method)
 
+    if arbiter_addr is not None:
+        warnings.warn(
+            '`arbiter_addr` is now deprecated and has been renamed to'
+            '`registry_addr`.\nUse that instead..',
+            DeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
+        )
+
+    registry_addr = (host, port) = (
+        registry_addr
+        or arbiter_addr
+        or (
+            _default_arbiter_host,
+            _default_arbiter_port,
+        )
+    )
+
+    loglevel = (loglevel or log._default_loglevel).upper()
+
     if debug_mode and _spawn._spawn_method == 'trio':
         _state._runtime_vars['_debug_mode'] = True
 
@@ -86,30 +139,41 @@ async def open_root_actor(
         # for use of ``await tractor.breakpoint()``
         enable_modules.append('tractor._debug')
 
+        # if debug mode get's enabled *at least* use that level of
+        # logging for some informative console prompts.
+        if (
+            logging.getLevelName(
+                # lul, need the upper case for the -> int map?
+                # sweet "dynamic function behaviour" stdlib...
+                loglevel,
+            ) > logging.getLevelName('PDB')
+        ):
+            loglevel = 'PDB'
+
     elif debug_mode:
         raise RuntimeError(
             "Debug mode is only supported for the `trio` backend!"
         )
 
-    arbiter_addr = (host, port) = arbiter_addr or (
-        _default_arbiter_host,
-        _default_arbiter_port
-    )
-
-    loglevel = loglevel or log.get_loglevel()
-    if loglevel is not None:
-        log._default_loglevel = loglevel
-        log.get_console_log(loglevel)
-
-    # make a temporary connection to see if an arbiter exists
-    arbiter_found = False
+    log.get_console_log(loglevel)
 
     try:
-        async with _connect_chan(host, port):
-            arbiter_found = True
+        # make a temporary connection to see if an arbiter exists,
+        # if one can't be made quickly we assume none exists.
+        arbiter_found = False
+
+        # TODO: this connect-and-bail forces us to have to carefully
+        # rewrap TCP 104-connection-reset errors as EOF so as to avoid
+        # propagating cancel-causing errors to the channel-msg loop
+        # machinery.  Likely it would be better to eventually have
+        # a "discovery" protocol with basic handshake instead.
+        with trio.move_on_after(1):
+            async with _connect_chan(host, port):
+                arbiter_found = True
 
     except OSError:
-        logger.warning(f"No actor could be found @ {host}:{port}")
+        # TODO: make this a "discovery" log level?
+        logger.warning(f"No actor registry found @ {host}:{port}")
 
     # create a local actor and start up its main routine/task
     if arbiter_found:
@@ -119,7 +183,7 @@ async def open_root_actor(
 
         actor = Actor(
             name or 'anonymous',
-            arbiter_addr=arbiter_addr,
+            arbiter_addr=registry_addr,
             loglevel=loglevel,
             enable_modules=enable_modules,
         )
@@ -135,7 +199,7 @@ async def open_root_actor(
 
         actor = Arbiter(
             name or 'arbiter',
-            arbiter_addr=arbiter_addr,
+            arbiter_addr=registry_addr,
             loglevel=loglevel,
             enable_modules=enable_modules,
         )
@@ -151,13 +215,14 @@ async def open_root_actor(
         # start the actor runtime in a new task
         async with trio.open_nursery() as nursery:
 
-            # ``Actor._async_main()`` creates an internal nursery and
+            # ``_runtime.async_main()`` creates an internal nursery and
             # thus blocks here until the entire underlying actor tree has
             # terminated thereby conducting structured concurrency.
 
             await nursery.start(
                 partial(
-                    actor._async_main,
+                    async_main,
+                    actor,
                     accept_addr=(host, port),
                     parent_addr=None
                 )
@@ -165,77 +230,83 @@ async def open_root_actor(
             try:
                 yield actor
 
-            except (Exception, trio.MultiError) as err:
-                logger.exception("Actor crashed:")
-                await _debug._maybe_enter_pm(err)
+            except (
+                Exception,
+                BaseExceptionGroup,
+            ) as err:
 
+                entered = await _debug._maybe_enter_pm(err)
+
+                if not entered and not is_multi_cancelled(err):
+                    logger.exception("Root actor crashed:")
+
+                # always re-raise
                 raise
+
             finally:
-                logger.info("Shutting down root actor")
+                # NOTE: not sure if we'll ever need this but it's
+                # possibly better for even more determinism?
+                # logger.cancel(
+                #     f'Waiting on {len(nurseries)} nurseries in root..')
+                # nurseries = actor._actoruid2nursery.values()
+                # async with trio.open_nursery() as tempn:
+                #     for an in nurseries:
+                #         tempn.start_soon(an.exited.wait)
+
+                logger.cancel("Shutting down root actor")
                 await actor.cancel()
     finally:
         _state._current_actor = None
-        logger.info("Root actor terminated")
+
+        # restore breakpoint hook state
+        sys.breakpointhook = builtin_bp_handler
+        if orig_bp_path is not None:
+            os.environ['PYTHONBREAKPOINT'] = orig_bp_path
+        else:
+            # clear env back to having no entry
+            os.environ.pop('PYTHONBREAKPOINT')
+
+        logger.runtime("Root actor terminated")
 
 
-def run(
-
-    # target
-    async_fn: typing.Callable[..., typing.Awaitable],
-    *args,
+def run_daemon(
+    enable_modules: list[str],
 
     # runtime kwargs
-    name: Optional[str] = 'root',
-    arbiter_addr: Tuple[str, int] = (
+    name: str | None = 'root',
+    registry_addr: tuple[str, int] = (
         _default_arbiter_host,
         _default_arbiter_port,
     ),
 
-    start_method: Optional[str] = None,
+    start_method: str | None = None,
     debug_mode: bool = False,
-    **kwargs,
+    **kwargs
 
-) -> Any:
-    """Run a trio-actor async function in process.
+) -> None:
+    '''
+    Spawn daemon actor which will respond to RPC; the main task simply
+    starts the runtime and then sleeps forever.
+
+    This is a very minimal convenience wrapper around starting
+    a "run-until-cancelled" root actor which can be started with a set
+    of enabled modules for RPC request handling.
+
+    '''
+    kwargs['enable_modules'] = list(enable_modules)
+
+    for path in enable_modules:
+        importlib.import_module(path)
 
-    This is tractor's main entry and the start point for any async actor.
-    """
     async def _main():
 
         async with open_root_actor(
-            arbiter_addr=arbiter_addr,
+            registry_addr=registry_addr,
             name=name,
             start_method=start_method,
             debug_mode=debug_mode,
             **kwargs,
         ):
+            return await trio.sleep_forever()
 
-            return await async_fn(*args)
-
-    warnings.warn(
-        "`tractor.run()` is now deprecated. `tractor` now"
-        " implicitly starts the root actor on first actor nursery"
-        " use. If you want to start the root actor manually, use"
-        " `tractor.open_root_actor()`.",
-        DeprecationWarning,
-        stacklevel=2,
-    )
     return trio.run(_main)
-
-
-def run_daemon(
-    rpc_module_paths: List[str],
-    **kwargs
-) -> None:
-    """Spawn daemon actor which will respond to RPC.
-
-    This is a convenience wrapper around
-    ``tractor.run(trio.sleep(float('inf')))`` such that the first actor spawned
-    is meant to run forever responding to RPC requests.
-    """
-    kwargs['rpc_module_paths'] = list(rpc_module_paths)
-
-    for path in rpc_module_paths:
-        importlib.import_module(path)
-
-    return run(partial(trio.sleep, float('inf')), **kwargs)