The init marker settled it. The diagnostic reported "THE REPORTER LOADED BUT
RECORDED NO TEST EVENTS — the events file contains only the reporter's own
reporter:init marker", which refutes the reporter-never-loaded hypothesis and
leaves exactly one explanation.
The runner spawns a child process per test file and surfaces a subtest's
test:start / test:pass / test:fail to the parent's reporter only once the child
REPORTS that test — which happens when it completes. The fixture hangs forever,
so it never completes, so it never reports. I had recorded exactly those three
event types: the precise set that a hang guarantees you will never see. The
feature could not have worked for the case it was built for.
test:enqueue and test:dequeue are emitted by the runner as it queues and begins
each file, independent of anything inside finishing. test:dequeue is what
actually means "in flight", and it is now the primary signal, with test:start
kept as a secondary one. A file is in flight when it has been dequeued and has
no terminal event.
The four branches now describe states that are all real: the events file absent
(reporter never loaded); the init marker alone (the runner dequeued nothing at
all — genuinely surprising now rather than the expected outcome); everything
dequeued and terminated (the files finished and the process hung afterwards, a
handle leak); and one or more dequeued-but-unterminated files, named, which is
the case this whole feature exists to report.
Verified against the exact shape the real hang produces, by executing
analyzeChunkEvents on a synthetic events file: init + enqueue + dequeue with no
terminal event reports hangs.test.cjs as in flight, and appending a test:pass
clears it. Four more unit tests cover the ordering and multi-file cases with no
subprocess, so this logic is now checkable without a runner round-trip — which
matters, because every defect in this feature so far was visible only remotely.
T1 is untouched and should now pass for the right reason.
Verification runs on the remote runner.
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