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Reinstalling a systemd unit rewrites escaped environment values incorrectly: parseBootServiceUserEnvironment turns Environment="T3CODE_NOTE=hello\sworld" into hellosworld, while systemd interprets it as hello sworld; the restarted service therefore receives a different credential or configuration value. Preserve the raw assignment or apply systemd-compatible C-style unescaping before rendering, including \s, \t, \xNN, octal/Unicode escapes, and escaped backslashes.
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Reinstalling a systemd unit rewrites escaped environment values incorrectly: `parseBootServiceUserEnvironment` turns `Environment="T3CODE_NOTE=hello\sworld"` into `hellosworld`, while systemd interprets it as `hello sworld`; the restarted service therefore receives a different credential or configuration value. Preserve the raw assignment or apply systemd-compatible C-style unescaping before rendering, including `\s`, `\t`, `\xNN`, octal/Unicode escapes, and escaped backslashes.
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| `Environment=T3CODE_HOME=${quoteSystemdValue(plan.baseDir)}`, | ||
| `Environment=${BOOT_SERVICE_UNIT_ENV}=${BOOT_SERVICE_UNIT_FILE}`, | ||
| ...extraEnvironment.map(([key, value]) => `Environment=${key}=${quoteSystemdValue(value)}`), |
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User environment values containing whitespace are truncated when the unit is rendered, so an update rewrites the variable incorrectly and leaves the remainder as a stray token. quoteSystemdValue quotes only the value after KEY=, but systemd treats that quote as literal because quoting must begin at the start of the assignment item; quote the complete KEY=value assignment instead.
| ...extraEnvironment.map(([key, value]) => `Environment=${key}=${quoteSystemdValue(value)}`), | |
| ...extraEnvironment.map(([key, value]) => `Environment=${quoteSystemdValue(`${key}=${value}`)}`), |
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User environment values containing whitespace are truncated when the unit is rendered, so an update rewrites the variable incorrectly and leaves the remainder as a stray token. `quoteSystemdValue` quotes only the value after `KEY=`, but systemd treats that quote as literal because quoting must begin at the start of the assignment item; quote the complete `KEY=value` assignment instead.
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main->>applyServiceEnvFile: Load and merge service.env
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In `@apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts`:
- Around line 124-126: Update the readQuoted parsing flow to decode systemd
C-style escapes, including \s, \t, hexadecimal, and Unicode escapes, before
quoteSystemdValue preserves Environment= values. Ensure escaped characters are
converted to their effective environment values rather than merely dropping the
backslash, while retaining existing handling for ordinary quoted content.
- Around line 1111-1112: Update the comparison around normalizeUnit and
detectedManager.render so systemd user environments are compared semantically
rather than by raw unit text. Normalize equivalent Environment= quoting and
ordering into a user-environment map, compare renderer-owned directives
separately, and preserve current: true when effective environments match
regardless of directive position or canonical formatting.
- Around line 59-75: Update unescapeXmlText to fully decode standard XML
character references, including ampersand-encoded quotes, apostrophes, and
numeric references, before launchd environment values are preserved. Keep this
decoding at the shared parser boundary so the renderer receives the original
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Decode all standard XML character references before preserving launchd environment values. unescapeXmlText does not decode ", ', or numeric references. During t3 service install, the parser keeps those references as text, and the renderer escapes their ampersands. The launchd environment can therefore change from " or ' to literal " or '. Use a complete XML text decoder for the shared parser boundary.
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In `@apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts` around lines 59 - 75, Update
unescapeXmlText to fully decode standard XML character references, including
ampersand-encoded quotes, apostrophes, and numeric references, before launchd
environment values are preserved. Keep this decoding at the shared parser
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| if (current === "\\" && quote === '"' && index + 1 < raw.length) { | ||
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For a unit-file Environment= assignment, systemd first applies the generic systemd.syntax(7) quoting rules. Double- and single-quoted items are supported, quote characters are removed, and C-style escapes are recognized; unknown escape forms are not portable and may produce a warning. Backslashes should therefore be doubled when a literal backslash is intended. [1] The relevant escape forms include \s for a space and \x20 for the space byte. Thus these are equivalent ways to set a value containing spaces: ini [Service] Environment="MY_VALUE=hello\sworld" Environment="MY_VALUE=hello\x20world" Both assign MY_VALUE the exact value hello world; they do not leave the characters \s or \x20 in the environment. The systemd test suite explicitly verifies both \s and \x20 as space escapes in quoted command-line parsing. [2] Environment= itself is a list of variable assignments. Each assignment is parsed as one item, so a value containing whitespace or = should be quoted as a whole assignment—for example: ini Environment="GREETING=hello\sworld" OTHER=value Environment="URL=https://example.test/a=b\x20c" Variable expansion is not performed inside the Environment= strings, and $ has no special meaning there; specifier expansion is separate and does apply. [3][4] The Environment= directive is documented in systemd.exec(5), while the escape syntax comes from systemd.syntax(7). [5][6] Important distinction: this applies to the unit-file Environment= setting, not automatically to EnvironmentFile=. The environment-file parser has its own format and quoting/escaping rules; systemd documentation was specifically corrected because describing EnvironmentFile= as accepting generic C escapes such as \t and \n was incorrect. [7][8] Practical recommendations: - Use Environment="NAME=value\swith\sspaces" or Environment="NAME=value\x20with\x20spaces" when you want an explicit escaped space. - A literal backslash should generally be written as \\ under the unit-file quoting rules. [1] - A literal percent used in a unit setting may require specifier escaping (%%), because specifier processing is independent of C-style escaping. [9] - Verify the resulting manager view with systemctl cat your.service and, when needed, inspect the service process environment (for example through /proc/$PID/environ). Sources reflect the current systemd documentation available for the requested date; distributions may ship an older systemd version, so the local systemd.syntax(7) and systemd.exec(5) pages remain authoritative for that installation.
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- 1: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/systemd.syntax.7.html
- 2: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/7273d383/src/test/test-load-fragment.c
- 3: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-commits/2013-January/003057.html
- 4: GitHub issue 20297 in systemd/systemd (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: https://freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.exec.html
- 6: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/systemd.exec.5.html
- 7: GitHub pull request 21908 in systemd/systemd (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/basic/env-file.c
- 9: GitHub issue 19014 in systemd/systemd (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Decode systemd C-style escapes before preserving Environment= values.
readQuoted removes the backslash from every \X pair. Therefore, Environment="NOTE=left\sright" becomes leftsright before quoteSystemdValue re-renders it. The same issue affects \t, \x20, and Unicode escapes. Use a systemd-compatible decoder so reinstalling a unit preserves the effective environment value.
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In `@apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts` around lines 124 - 126, Update the
readQuoted parsing flow to decode systemd C-style escapes, including \s, \t,
hexadecimal, and Unicode escapes, before quoteSystemdValue preserves
Environment= values. Ensure escaped characters are converted to their effective
environment values rather than merely dropping the backslash, while retaining
existing handling for ordinary quoted content.
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In systemd service unit files, the Environment= directive is used to set environment variables for executed processes [1][2][3]. Regarding the ordering and placement of this directive: 1. Ordering and Precedence: When the Environment= directive is specified multiple times, all listed variables are set [4][3]. If the same variable is defined more than once, the later setting overrides any earlier setting [4][3]. Assigning an empty string to Environment= resets the list of environment variables, effectively clearing all prior assignments [4][3]. 2. Interaction with EnvironmentFile=: While Environment= and EnvironmentFile= are both used to define environment variables, their interaction is governed by the order in which they appear in the unit file [5]. Generally, settings defined later in the configuration file (or in later-processed drop-in files) take precedence over those defined earlier [5][4]. 3. Placement: The Environment= directive is a configuration option that belongs in the [Service] section of a service unit file [1][2]. It is documented under the execution environment settings, which are shared across various unit types and detailed in the systemd.exec(5) manual page [1][2][6]. In summary, the placement of Environment= must be within the [Service] section, and its effective value is determined by its position relative to other Environment= or EnvironmentFile= directives, with later definitions overriding earlier ones [5][4][3].
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- 1: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/249/systemd.service.html
- 2: https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/systemd/systemd.service.5.en
- 3: https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/setup/systemd/environment-variables/
- 4: https://docs.rs/systemd_unit/latest/src/systemd_unit/exec.rs.html
- 5: GitHub issue 9788 in systemd/systemd (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html
Compare systemd user environment semantically.
normalizeUnit does not normalize systemd content. The parser converts Environment="T3CODE_PORT=1234" into the same environment pair that the renderer emits as Environment=T3CODE_PORT=1234. These strings differ, so a valid unit can report current: false even though its effective environment matches the plan. The same applies when a valid Environment= entry appears at another position in [Service]; the parser retains it, but the renderer moves it to its canonical block.
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In `@apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts` around lines 1111 - 1112, Update the
comparison around normalizeUnit and detectedManager.render so systemd user
environments are compared semantically rather than by raw unit text. Normalize
equivalent Environment= quoting and ordering into a user-environment map,
compare renderer-owned directives separately, and preserve current: true when
effective environments match regardless of directive position or canonical
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The bug is real and the round-trip tests are good, but this implements the option the triage on #12626 steered away from: "Likely fix: an optional env file under T3 home that the launcher merges... Preserving unknown plist/unit keys is more fragile." The fragility shows up concretely here: parseSystemdEnvironmentAssignments does not unescape systemd C-style escapes (\\s, \\xNN), so a user-written Environment= line containing one gets re-quoted through quoteSystemdValue on the next t3 update and the backslash doubles — the first re-render silently corrupts the value. That is the class of bug the env-file approach avoids entirely, because the launcher never has to parse what it wrote.
Please redo this as the env file: a documented env file (or similar) under T3 home that the service launcher merges into its environment at start, with the background-service and source-control guides pointing at it. That is smaller than what is here (no tokenizer, no plist regex), survives every re-render by construction, and gives the Bitbucket credentials a stable home. If you think preserving unit keys is the better model, say why on #12626 first so we can settle it before more code.
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Agreed — redoing this as a documented env file under T3 home that the launcher merges at start (no unit/plist Environment= round-trip). Will push on this branch and update the background-service / source-control docs. |
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In `@apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts`:
- Line 478: Update main() and `#startChild` so the environment produced by the
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CodeRabbit noted #startChild reread service.env on every spawn, so a deleted variable could stay in process.env and mix with the current file. Load once in main() and pass that map to each child. Co-authored-by: Cestercian <yashafaid@gmail.com>
Windows env names are case-insensitive, so Path= and t3code_home= were slipping past the managed-name filter and overwriting PATH/T3CODE_HOME. Co-authored-by: Cestercian <yashafaid@gmail.com>
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t3 update/t3 service installre-render the boot unit and drop user environment (including documented Bitbucket credentials). Preserving unknownEnvironment=/ plist keys is fragile (systemd C-escapes corrupt on re-quote).Instead, the launcher merges a documented env file at start:
$T3CODE_HOME/service.env(default~/.t3/service.env)KEY=VALUEvia Nodeutil.parseEnvPATH,T3CODE_HOME,T3_BOOT_SERVICE_UNIT,T3_SERVICE_LAUNCHER_CONTEXTBackground-service and source-control docs point at this file for Bitbucket and other user env.
Fixes #12626
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