fix: PrintHeader kills headless startup when no console is attached - #258
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Console.WindowWidth/WindowHeight throw IOException when the process has no console at all (Windows service, container, detached process manager), so the banner took the server down before it did any work. Read the width once through a guarded helper and fall back to the same narrow layout already used when the window height is unknown. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
WalkthroughThe logger now handles unavailable console dimensions with a fixed width fallback. The shared project version and selected runtime packages were updated. The test project package versions were also updated. ChangesHeadless logger width handling
Package version updates
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The startup banner can still crash the process when the console reports a zero width but a valid height, so this PR is not merge-ready until it validates the width value and falls back safely. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@src/NosCore.Shared/I18N/Logger.cs`:
- Line 62: Update the console dimension check in the relevant logger property or
method to validate Console.WindowWidth directly, returning HeadlessWindowWidth
when the width is zero or unavailable; preserve the existing width return
behavior otherwise so PrintHeader never receives an invalid width.
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.NET Console.WindowWidth Console.WindowHeight Unix implementation independent columns rows ConsolePal.Unix
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In.NET, the Console.WindowWidth and Console.WindowHeight properties are implemented on Unix-like systems via the internal ConsolePal.Unix class [1][2][3]. Key implementation details include: Retrieving Dimensions: The properties determine the console size by calling Interop.Sys.GetWindowSize [1][3]. This typically leverages an ioctl system call (specifically TIOCGWINSZ) to query the terminal's window size from the kernel [1][4][3]. If that call fails or is unavailable, the implementation falls back to values defined in TerminalFormatStrings, which are derived from the environment's terminal capabilities (often based on the terminfo database) [1][2][3]. Caching and Invalidation: To optimize performance,.NET caches these dimensions [1]. The system uses a mechanism to invalidate this cache, which is triggered when necessary [1][3]. Historically, there have been issues where the cache was not properly invalidated when the terminal resized unless other console properties (like CursorTop) were accessed, which forced a refresh of the terminal settings [5]. Setting Dimensions: The setter for both WindowWidth and WindowHeight throws a PlatformNotSupportedException on Unix [1][3]. Although attempts were made to implement SetWindowSize using the TIOCSWINSZ ioctl, these were reverted because that system call only informs the kernel of a terminal size change rather than actually resizing the graphical window hosting the terminal [4][6][3]. Consequently, programmatic resizing of the console window is not supported on Unix platforms in.NET [6][3].
Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/10eb1a9ff1c09de4a2a1faa8cb372213c0813708/src/libraries/System.Console/src/System/ConsolePal.Unix.cs
- 2: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/1be850f5708a820b132020cc9628efb972239db9/src/System.Console/src/System/ConsolePal.Unix.cs
- 3: https://source.dot.net/System.Console/System/ConsolePal.Unix.cs.html
- 4: Implement Console.SetWindowSize() for linux dotnet/runtime#75824
- 5: System.Console.WindowWidth not changing on Linux unless System.Console.CursorTop is accessed dotnet/runtime#41274
- 6: Console.Unix: revert SetWindowSize implementation. dotnet/runtime#100272
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assert "Console.WindowHeight > 0 ? Console.WindowWidth : HeadlessWindowWidth" in text
assert "new string('=', width - 1)" in text
expr = "width = 0"
fallback = "HeadlessWindowWidth"
print("source invariant: width=0 reaches new string length -1")
print("fallback bypassed when height>0:", True)
print("fallback value:", 21)
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In the.NET runtime's internal implementation, ConsolePal.Unix is a static class responsible for platform-specific console operations on Unix-based systems [1][2][3]. Within this class, the private method GetWindowSize is used to determine the terminal's dimensions [1][2]. The method GetWindowSize(out int width, out int height) operates as follows: - It uses a lock on Console.Out to ensure thread safety during terminal setting operations [1][3]. - It calls CheckTerminalSettingsInvalidated to verify if the terminal settings have been invalidated (e.g., due to a resize) [1][2]. - If the cached window dimensions (s_windowWidth) are uninitialized (-1), it attempts to retrieve the actual size using Interop.Sys.GetWindowSize [1][2]. - On success, it populates the width and height with values from the Interop.Sys.WinSize structure (which contains Col and Row fields) [1][2]. - If that fails, it falls back to default values provided by TerminalFormatStringsInstance.Columns and TerminalFormatStringsInstance.Lines [1][3]. Regarding the properties WindowWidth and WindowHeight, they publicly surface these dimensions by calling GetWindowSize [1][2]. Importantly, while these properties can be read, setting them on Unix platforms typically results in a PlatformNotSupportedException [2][4], as Unix terminals do not always allow the application to forcibly resize the host window [4]. The implementation details have evolved, including fixes to ensure window size is properly invalidated when the terminal is resized [5] and cleanup of the SetWindowSize method [4].
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- 1: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/System.Console/src/System/ConsolePal.Unix.cs
- 2: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/10eb1a9ff1c09de4a2a1faa8cb372213c0813708/src/libraries/System.Console/src/System/ConsolePal.Unix.cs
- 3: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/3d183920b7f55572db6e4bdc2bccff968ab4e490/src/libraries/System.Console/src/System/ConsolePal.Unix.cs
- 4: Console.Unix: revert SetWindowSize implementation. dotnet/runtime#100272
- 5: [release/5.0] Console.Unix: fix window size not always being invalidated dotnet/runtime#41462
Validate Console.WindowWidth, not Console.WindowHeight.
If the width is zero while the height is positive, PrintHeader passes -1 to new string and throws instead of using HeadlessWindowWidth. Read and validate Console.WindowWidth directly.
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In `@src/NosCore.Shared/I18N/Logger.cs` at line 62, Update the console dimension
check in the relevant logger property or method to validate Console.WindowWidth
directly, returning HeadlessWindowWidth when the width is zero or unavailable;
preserve the existing width return behavior otherwise so PrintHeader never
receives an invalid width.
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Logger.PrintHeaderreadsConsole.WindowWidth/Console.WindowHeightthree times, unguarded. Both throwIOExceptionwhen the process has no console at all — a Windows service, a container, a detached process manager — so the decorative banner took the server down before it did any work.Width is now read once through a guarded helper, falling back to the same narrow layout that was already used when the window height is unknown. Callers get to keep the plain
Logger.PrintHeader(ConsoleText)call instead of each wrapping it in their own try/catch (see NosCoreIO/NosCore#2278).Also carries a NuGet bump commit:
mastercurrently fails restore withNU1903(high-severity advisory onSQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite32.1.11, pulled transitively byMicrosoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite10.0.6). CI cannot go green without it.Version bumped to
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