Design constraint (tech.md "Process Creation"): the controller, scheduler,
xcecd and anything that starts libxce threads never call fork, vfork,
forkpty, daemon, system, popen or uv_spawn; children start with posix_spawn()
or a systemd unit. A process proven single-threaded may fork, marked
/* xce-fork-ok: <why> */. Tests, harness, autoscaler (not finalized; bug-1969)
and the Go frontend are out of scope.
- scripts/check-no-fork.py scans src/{controller,scheduler,lib,worker}
(comment/string/#if 0 aware); runs as meson test "no-fork rule" in the
lib/controller/scheduler/worker suites and in the pre-commit hook.
- worker: drop xcecd's unused fork-based worker start paths
(process_manager_start_process, process_manager_start_worker; xcecd
starts xcecd_worker over D-Bus) and a dead #if 0 daemonize fork.
- xcecd_worker's fork/uv_spawn/system calls are marked: its call graph
from main(), callbacks included, reaches no pthread_create or libuv
thread-pool call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>