zed/crates/context_server/Cargo.toml
Richard Feldman 29aad02404
Fix MCP server processes leaking as zombies (#54793)
Two bugs caused MCP server child processes (e.g. `npm`/`node` for
`mcp-remote`) to accumulate as zombie processes that were never cleaned
up:

**Bug 1: `stop_server()` only called `stop()` for `Running` servers**

If a server completed initialization but was still in `Starting` state
when `stop_server()` was called (a race between the init task completing
and `maintain_servers` restarting), the client/transport/process were
never released. The `Arc<ContextServer>` was moved into a `Stopped`
state with its inner client still holding the transport and child
process handle.

Fix: call `stop()` unconditionally in `stop_server()`. It is a safe
no-op when the client has not been initialized (`None`).

**Bug 2: `kill_on_drop` only killed the direct child, not the process
tree**

`StdioTransport` used a raw `smol::process::Child` with
`kill_on_drop(true)`, which sends SIGKILL only to the direct child
process (the shell/`npm` wrapper). The actual MCP server (e.g. `node
mcp-remote`) runs as a grandchild and survives the kill, getting
reparented to launchd.

Fix: use `util::process::Child`, which already exists in the codebase
for exactly this purpose. It calls `setsid()` via `pre_exec` to make the
child a process group leader, and uses `killpg()` to terminate the
entire process tree on kill. This requires passing a
`std::process::Command` (via `build_std_command`) instead of a
`smol::process::Command` (via `build_smol_command`), because that is
what `util::process::Child::spawn` accepts — it needs to call `pre_exec`
on the `std::process::Command` before internally converting it to
`smol::process::Command` for async I/O.

Release Notes:

- Fixed zombie MCP server processes accumulating over time
2026-05-06 13:30:07 +00:00

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[package]
name = "context_server"
version = "0.1.0"
edition.workspace = true
publish.workspace = true
license = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
[lints]
workspace = true
[lib]
path = "src/context_server.rs"
[features]
test-support = ["gpui/test-support"]
[dependencies]
anyhow.workspace = true
async-channel.workspace = true
async-trait.workspace = true
base64.workspace = true
collections.workspace = true
futures.workspace = true
futures-lite.workspace = true
gpui.workspace = true
http_client = { workspace = true, features = ["test-support"] }
log.workspace = true
net.workspace = true
parking_lot.workspace = true
rand.workspace = true
postage.workspace = true
schemars.workspace = true
serde_json.workspace = true
serde.workspace = true
settings.workspace = true
sha2.workspace = true
slotmap.workspace = true
tempfile.workspace = true
tiny_http.workspace = true
url = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
util.workspace = true
[dev-dependencies]
gpui = { workspace = true, features = ["test-support"] }
pollster.workspace = true