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Improve pipeline thread consumer task cancellation

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the pipeline thread consumer and tracing its existing Ctrl+C cancellation path; clarify which cancellation and monitoring behavior is required before changing it. Done should include an agreed approach for preventing a long-running task from starving the consumer.

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Description

Area-Engine Area-Threading Issue-Bug

Because the pipeline thread consumer is single-threaded and runs tasks sequentially, there's the real possibility that a single bad task could starve it.

For now, Ctrl+C should cancel whatever task is running. This may indeed include background tasks...

But some ideas for improving this are:

  • A key-chord to cancel/unblock the pipeline thread when something other than console input is being run
  • A monitor thread to supervise the pipeline thread that:
    • Logs when tasks drag on
    • Alerts users to long running tasks
    • Allows cancellation
    • Can completely reset the main runspace...
Dominant language
C#
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767
Forks
266
Avg merge
3d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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