## Why
This is a follow-up to #15360. That change fixed the `arg0` helper
setup, but `rmcp-client` still coerced stdio transport environment
values into UTF-8 `String`s before program resolution and process spawn.
If `PATH` or another inherited environment value contains non-UTF-8
bytes, that loses fidelity before it reaches `which` and `Command`.
## What changed
- change `create_env_for_mcp_server()` to return `HashMap<OsString,
OsString>` and read inherited values with `std::env::var_os()`
- change `TransportRecipe::Stdio.env`, `RmcpClient::new_stdio_client()`,
and `program_resolver::resolve()` to keep stdio transport env values in
`OsString` form within `rmcp-client`
- keep the `codex-core` config boundary stringly, but convert configured
stdio env values to `OsString` once when constructing the transport
- update the rmcp-client stdio test fixtures and callers to use
`OsString` env maps
- add a Unix regression test that verifies `create_env_for_mcp_server()`
preserves a non-UTF-8 `PATH`
## How to verify
- `cargo test -p codex-rmcp-client`
- `cargo test -p codex-core mcp_connection_manager`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
Targeted coverage in this change includes
`utils::tests::create_env_preserves_path_when_it_is_not_utf8`, while the
updated stdio transport path is exercised by the existing rmcp-client
tests that construct `RmcpClient::new_stdio_client()`.
## What changed
- The pid-file cleanup test now keeps polling when the pid file exists
but is still empty.
- Assertions only proceed once the wrapper has actually written the
child pid.
## Why this fixes the flake
- File creation and pid writing are not atomic as one logical action
from the test’s point of view.
- The previous test sometimes won the race and read the file in the tiny
window after creation but before the pid bytes were flushed.
- Treating “empty file” as “not ready yet” synchronizes the test on the
real event we need: the wrapper has finished publishing the child pid.
## Scope
- Test-only change.
This PR changes stdio MCP child processes to run in their own process
group
* Add guarded teardown in codex-rmcp-client: send SIGTERM to the group
first, then SIGKILL after a short grace period.
* Add terminate_process_group helper in process_group.rs.
* Add Unix regression test in process_group_cleanup.rs to verify wrapper
+ grandchild are reaped on client drop.
Addresses reported MCP process/thread storm: #10581
Michael Bolin ·
Ahmed Ibrahim ·
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