fix(mister): ignore a file selection re-notified after a core exits - #1367
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MiSTer never clears /tmp/FILESELECT after a launch and rewrites it again when a core exits, leaving the status at "selected" while FULLPATH and CURRENTPATH still name the game that just ended. loadFileSelection read that as a fresh manual launch and wrote ACTIVEGAME, so the game that had just been closed was published as active again roughly 400ms after it stopped. No further core change was coming, so the session never ended and accrued play time indefinitely against a game that was not running. Compare the FILESELECT timestamp against the CURRENTPATH it claims to describe and skip a status written meaningfully later. Both MiSTer and writeCurrentPathTo write the trio back to back, so a real selection lands well inside the window. Statting failures fail open, since dropping a real launch is worse than a late stop. Captured on a device, exiting Blockade to the menu: CORENAME MENU 13:40:27.077 FILESELECT selected 13:40:27.327 FULLPATH /media/fat/_Arcade/Blockade.mra 13:39:56.309 CURRENTPATH Blockade.mra 13:39:56.309
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe MiSTer tracker now resolves selections through configurable files and injected callbacks. It filters stale notifications, handles timestamp errors without rejecting selections, looks up launch paths, and records valid games. Tests cover resolution, file configuration, and end-to-end selection loading. ChangesMiSTer selection resolution
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The MiSTer tracker now ignores selections re-notified after their paths were written, preventing closed games from being republished as active. If those timestamps cannot be read, the selection is still accepted, so a delayed post-stop event could recreate incorrect active-game state; the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MiSTerFiles
participant Tracker
participant LauncherCache
participant ActiveGame
MiSTerFiles->>Tracker: Notify selection files
Tracker->>MiSTerFiles: Read selection and timestamps
Tracker->>LauncherCache: Resolve selected launch path
LauncherCache-->>Tracker: Return launch record
Tracker->>ActiveGame: Record valid selected game
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pkg/platforms/mister/tracker/tracker.go (1)
828-831: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd an integration test for stale file selections.
tracker_test.gotestsselectionIsStaledirectly but does not exerciseTracker.loadFileSelection. Add a regression test that supplies a staleFILESELECTand verifies thatactivegame.SetActiveGameis not called.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/platforms/mister/tracker/tracker.go`:
- Around line 828-831: Add an integration regression test around
Tracker.loadFileSelection using a stale FILESELECT input, and assert that
activegame.SetActiveGame is not called. Reuse the existing tracker test helpers
and selectionIsStale setup patterns where applicable, while keeping the test
focused on the stale-selection path.
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TestSelectionIsStale only covered the predicate, so removing its call site left every test passing. Extract the read, staleness gate and path resolution into resolveSelectedLaunchPath and assert the decision there: a selection written with its paths resolves, one re-notified 31 seconds later does not, and a window that cannot be exceeded still resolves.
The staleness rule was only asserted at resolveSelectedLaunchPath, so nothing proved the part that actually caused the bug: loadFileSelection went on to publish an active game from a status MiSTer had rewritten on core exit. Take the file-selector trio and the active-game recorder from the tracker so the whole decision can run against a temp directory, and cover the settled, stale, system/menu, unclaimed and failed-record paths. Also cover the unreadable status file and half-written trio, which were the remaining untested error returns.
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MiSTer never clears
/tmp/FILESELECTafter a launch, and rewrites it again when a core exits. The status staysselectedwhileFULLPATHandCURRENTPATHstill name the game that just ended, soloadFileSelectionread the exit as a fresh manual launch, wroteACTIVEGAME, and the ACTIVEGAME watcher republished the closed game as active about 400ms after it stopped.Nothing stopped it again, because no further core change was coming. The session stayed open and accrued play time indefinitely against a game that was not running, which also throttled indexing for as long as it lasted.
Captured on a device, exiting Blockade to the menu:
and the resulting log:
The same trace explains the duplicate
manual MiSTer file launch detectedlines seen on a normal launch: every write to that file re-fires the selection.Change
selectionIsStalecompares theFILESELECTmtime against theCURRENTPATHit claims to describe, andloadFileSelectionskips a status written more than two seconds later. Both MiSTer andwriteCurrentPathTowrite the trio back to back, so a genuine selection lands well inside that window. A stat failure fails open, since dropping a real launch is worse than a late stop.The status alone cannot be used as the signal: MiSTer leaves it at
selectedpermanently, so there is no transition to detect.Verification
resolveSelectedLaunchPathcovers the read, the staleness gate and path resolution together, so the rule is pinned where it runs rather than only on the predicate: a selection written alongside its paths resolves, one re-notified 31 seconds later does not, and a window that cannot be exceeded still resolves. Removing the gate fails that middle case.Deployed to a MiSTer and checked three ways:
FILESELECTwith stale paths logsignoring MiSTer file selection re-notified after its paths were writtenand publishes nothing;launcherIdand originalstarted;Notes
loadRecentis the otherACTIVEGAMEproducer and has no equivalent staleness guard. It did not misfire in the traces captured here, and recent files are normally only rewritten on an actual launch, so it is left alone.The approach of correlating these timestamps is also used by the MiSTer Monitor project. Its MiSTer-side server is AGPL-3.0, so its source was deliberately not consulted; this implementation is derived from the device measurements above.
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