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Summary

  • Explorer starts one QuickPlay per selected file. With many files, some of those launches opened a window of their own instead of handing their file to the running player: dozens of windows for a few dozen files, and a crash for a library of 2000. Three causes: the queue held 64 messages and filled before the window was up; a ninth simultaneous connection was closed unread; and on Windows a pipe whose name is taken fails with "access denied" (first instance created exclusive), not AddrInUse, so a launch that lost the start race never retried.
  • The single instance is now strict (main.rs::single_instance): a launch that finds the socket taken or the player busy retries for up to 30 s, then exits. It never opens a window. The server waits for a free slot instead of refusing, the queue holds 1024 messages, and "access denied" from the listener is read as AddrInUse (ipc::listen, with a test).
  • Trade-off: if the running player stays blocked for more than 30 s, the files of the launches that time out are dropped rather than opened in new windows. No change to the IPC protocol, CLI or settings.

How I tested

  • Windows 11: N simultaneous waveflow-quickplay.exe --enqueue <file> launches (parallel Start-Process, each with its own log, under a separate pipe name):

    Build Launches Windows left Hand-offs taken
    1.2.0 (installed) 200 8 192, 7 ran standalone
    this branch 200 1 199/199
    this branch 1000 1 999/999
  • cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test --locked pass locally.

  • Not run on Linux or macOS. Their sockets already reported AddrInUse; what changes there is that a launch that cannot hand over now retries and exits instead of opening a window.

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  • Title uses Conventional Commits (type(scope): subject, kebab-case scope)
  • cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo test --locked pass locally
  • If UI strings changed: every language in src/i18n/ updated, placeholders kept (none changed)
  • If a cross-cutting pattern changed: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md updated
  • Platform-specific behaviour: tested on the platform(s) named above (Windows only)
  • Breaking change (settings file, CLI flags, IPC protocol)? None

Linked issues

Follow-up (separate PR): one process for a whole Explorer selection, instead of one per file.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Améliorations
    • Les lancements simultanés peuvent transmettre des fichiers à l’instance déjà ouverte ; jusqu’à 1 024 messages peuvent attendre leur traitement.
    • Jusqu’à huit connexions sont lues simultanément. Les suivantes attendent qu’une place se libère, et chaque message dispose de deux secondes pour être lu.
    • En cas d’instance temporairement indisponible ou de socket occupé, le lancement réessaie pendant 30 secondes au maximum. Si le socket reste occupé, il quitte sans ouvrir de fenêtre supplémentaire.
    • La remise d’un message est abandonnée après trois secondes. Les transmissions répétées d’un même lancement sont dédupliquées pendant une minute, même si l’accusé de réception est perdu. Les messages de lecture rapprochés sont regroupés.

Explorer starts one process per selected file. Three things let some of
those launches open a window of their own instead of handing their file
to the running player:

- the queue held 64 messages, filled before the window was up, and a
  refused launch ran standalone;
- a ninth connection at once was closed unread;
- on Windows a pipe whose name is taken fails with "access denied"
  (the first instance is created exclusive), not AddrInUse, so a launch
  that lost the start race never retried and ran standalone.

The single instance is now strict: a launch that finds the socket taken
or the player busy tries again for up to thirty seconds, then exits; it
never opens a window. The server waits for a free slot instead of
refusing, the queue holds 1024 messages, and "access denied" from the
listener is read as AddrInUse.

Measured on Windows with simultaneous --enqueue launches: 1.2.0 opened
8 windows for 200; this opens 1 window for 1000, all 999 hand-offs
taken.
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Le serveur IPC augmente sa capacité de file à 1024 messages, attend qu’une place se libère parmi huit lectures et déduplique les remises répétées pendant 60 secondes. Au lancement, l’application réessaie la transmission ou la création du serveur pendant trente secondes.

Changes: Serveur IPC et instance unique

Layer / File(s) Summary
Création du serveur et capacité IPC
src/ipc.rs, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
La file passe de 64 à 1024 messages. Une connexion attend qu’une des huit places de lecture se libère. Slot libère la place à sa destruction. Le serveur ne supprime un fichier socket que si la sonde indique un refus ou un socket absent. Sous Windows, listen convertit ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED en AddrInUse. La documentation décrit aussi les délais de lecture et les règles de connexion.
Déduplication des remises
src/ipc.rs
Le serveur identifie les remises par PID et empreinte du mode et des chemins. Il ignore une remise identique pendant 60 secondes. Les tests vérifient la déduplication et l’expiration des entrées.
Relances au lancement
src/main.rs, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
single_instance réessaie l’envoi et la création du serveur pendant trente secondes. Le lancement quitte après une transmission réussie ou si le socket reste occupé jusqu’à l’échéance. Une erreur de création autre que AddrInUse entraîne le mode autonome. La reprise conserve le transfert direct du socket.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Main as main::single_instance
  participant Existing as Instance existante
  participant Server as Server::start
  participant Listener as listen
  Main->>Existing: Tenter de transmettre les fichiers
  alt Transmission réussie
    Existing-->>Main: Confirmer la transmission
    Main->>Main: Quitter le lancement
  else Transmission en échec
    Main->>Server: Tenter de créer le serveur
    Server->>Listener: Créer le listener
    Listener-->>Server: Renvoyer le résultat
    alt Serveur créé
      Server-->>Main: Démarrer l’écoute
    else Socket occupé
      Server-->>Main: Renvoyer AddrInUse
      Main->>Main: Réessayer jusqu’à trente secondes
    end
  end
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review bac55

Un lancement retardé peut remplacer des fichiers déjà reçus. Ce cas reste à traiter avant la fusion.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to bac55

The change remains focused on local startup and file delivery. It improves burst handling without an established expansion of privileges. Timed-out launches can lose their pending files, and platform-specific recovery behavior remains incompletely verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected path carries file selections and playback mode into the local player's queue and focus handling. The identified effects concern that player's availability and queue contents; no new remote entrypoint or increased process authority was established by the reviewed change.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Machine-wide endpoints retain same-user verification on both client and server before message exchange or handling. Filesystem endpoints instead disable peer checks and rely on directory isolation; the cache/temp fallback is not subjected to the private-directory validation. That fallback and its exposure are unchanged in the compared code.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The larger queue remains count-bounded, and existing per-message limits remain 4 MiB and 10,000 paths. Increasing queue capacity increases potential retained message memory; it does not introduce an aggregate byte budget. The read deadline and eight-reader limit remain controls on incomplete-message handling.
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Title check Passed Le titre décrit clairement la correction principale : éviter plusieurs fenêtres lors de lancements groupés depuis le gestionnaire de fichiers. Il respecte aussi le format Conventional Commits.
Description check Passed La description couvre le problème, les causes, la solution, le compromis, les tests Windows, les commandes exécutées et les changements hors périmètre. Elle indique clairement que Linux et macOS n’ont…
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Review comments at @docs/ARCHITECTURE.md:
- Around line 190-200: Dans la section « Single instance », reformulez la phrase
sur l’absence de fenêtre pour la limiter au cas où le socket est déjà pris ou le
lecteur trop occupé, et corrigez l’affirmation selon laquelle une instance qui
ne répond pas ne bloque rien longtemps en tenant compte des tentatives pouvant
durer jusqu’à 30 secondes. Vérifiez le délai de trois secondes décrit pour le
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d’un processus par fichier sélectionné dans Explorer et ajoutez le retour à la
ligne manquant avant la phrase suivante.

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- Around line 382-387: Dans le thread de connexion qui appelle `handle`,
remplacez la décrémentation explicite de `done` après cet appel par un garde
RAII dont le `Drop` décrémente le compteur, et créez ce garde avant `handle`
afin que le slot soit libéré même en cas de panique.

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transitoire ne fasse pas ouvrir une fenêtre supplémentaire.

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- an error from ipc::send other than a path that cannot be carried or a
  socket held by another user (a pipe broken mid-exchange, say) went
  straight to Server::start, which found the name taken and ran
  standalone: a window. It is now tried again like a timeout;
- a reading slot was given back after handle() returned, so a panic in
  it (the release profile unwinds) kept it forever, and with the server
  now waiting for a free slot eight of them would stop it. A guard gives
  it back on drop, also when no thread could be spawned;
- ARCHITECTURE.md: the no-window rule is the taken-socket case only, an
  instance that never answers keeps each launch trying for up to thirty
  seconds, and Explorer's one process per file is said once.
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Outside diff Borner le sondage du socket périmé.

300-300: Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Borner le sondage du socket périmé.

Avec interprocess 2.4.6, Stream::connect utilise par défaut une attente non bornée. Sur Linux, un socket AF_UNIX dont la file est pleine peut donc bloquer ce sondage. single_instance vérifie HAND_OFF_DEADLINE seulement après Server::start; le délai de 30 secondes peut donc ne pas être respecté.

Utilisez une connexion bornée. Ne supprimez le fichier que pour une erreur indiquant réellement un socket périmé.

🐛 Correction suggérée
-                if Stream::connect(point.name.clone()).is_ok() {
-                    return Err(e);
+                let probe = interprocess::local_socket::ConnectOptions::new()
+                    .name(point.name.clone())
+                    .wait_mode(interprocess::local_socket::ConnectWaitMode::Timeout(
+                        CLIENT_TIMEOUT,
+                    ))
+                    .connect_sync();
+                match probe {
+                    Ok(_) => return Err(e),
+                    Err(probe_err)
+                        if matches!(
+                            probe_err.kind(),
+                            io::ErrorKind::ConnectionRefused | io::ErrorKind::NotFound
+                        ) => {}
+                    Err(probe_err) => return Err(probe_err),
                 }

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Dans le sondage de socket de single_instance, remplacez Stream::connect par une
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From review:

- Server::start probed a socket file it could not bind with an unbounded
  connect, and removed the file on any failure to connect, a live
  instance's included: a second player. The probe now gives up after
  CLIENT_TIMEOUT and counts as alive; only a refused connection or a
  missing socket is stale. Any other failure leaves the file and reports
  the name as taken, so the caller tries again instead of running
  standalone.
- a launch whose message was queued but whose `ok` never reached it (a
  timeout, a pipe broken after the write) tries again and its files were
  queued twice. The server remembers, for a minute, the hand-offs it took
  by the sending process and what they carried, and answers a repeat
  without queueing it. The protocol is unchanged; two launches with the
  same files are two processes, so both are still queued.
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: the strict single-instance paragraph is kept; its
reason now names what still starts one process per file (a Linux file
manager, Explorer's "Open with"), since Explorer's own verbs start one
since #25.
…fix/single-instance-burst

# Conflicts:
#	docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
A hand-off older than a minute was only dropped when a new one was
recorded, after the lookup: a new launch reusing an old process id with
the same files was answered ok and its files never queued. Expired
entries are now dropped before the lookup, with a test.

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interprocess reads no peer process id on Darwin, so on macOS every
hand-off had no key and a retry after a lost `ok` was queued twice. The
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src/ipc.rs-742-744: 1

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Placez le socket du test dans un répertoire privé.

Si TMPDIR désigne /tmp sur macOS, ce test crée son socket dans un répertoire partagé. Le nom dérivé du PID est prévisible. Le test supprime aussi toute entrée existante à ce chemin sans vérifier si un socket répond. Utilisez un répertoire privé pour ce fixture et vérifiez un socket existant avant de le remplacer. std::env::temp_dir() ne garantit pas un répertoire privé. (doc.rust-lang.org)

As per path instructions, « le socket ne finit jamais dans un répertoire partagé (/tmp) » et le remplacement d’un socket périmé intervient « seulement après un essai de connexion ».

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…s own

The socket sat under temp_dir() with a predictable name and whatever was
at that path was removed first. It now lives in a directory created for
the run with mode 0700, which fails if the name is taken, and is removed
afterwards.
macOS limits a socket path to 104 bytes and its $TMPDIR is long: the
directory and socket names were too long for it. They are now short.

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A $TMPDIR long enough to leave no room in sun_path's 104 bytes would
still fail the test: the private directory then goes under /tmp.
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