start-worker.sh's real-worker branch writes the pidfile via `echo $$`
then `exec sudo "$WORKER_BIN" ...` -- exec replaces the pidfile-writing
shell with sudo in place (same PID), so the pidfile records sudo's own
PID, not the actual xcecd daemon's. sudo forks a separate, root-owned
child to run the real worker; kill -9 on sudo's PID kills only sudo
(SIGKILL can't be forwarded to a child), silently orphaning xcecd. The
existing "still alive after kill -9" warning never caught this either,
since it re-checked the same (already-dead) sudo PID.
Both generated stop-all.sh and cleanup.sh now detect a sudo-wrapped
pidfile entry (its /proc/$PID/cmdline starts with "sudo "), find its
child via pgrep -P, and kill that child with sudo first. The
still-alive check now also tests for the child's continued existence.
Live-verified end-to-end: deployed a 3-node cluster with a real
(XCE_REAL_WORKER=1) worker, confirmed the sudo-parent/root-child PID
pair, ran the fixed stop-all.sh and cleanup.sh and confirmed zero
processes remain after each, with the new "is a sudo wrapper" line
printed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RLSNJhNoULvVcUhXEFafQC
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