forked from unom/punktfunk
enricobuehler
76e8bd1b98
When a launched game's processes are all gone, the watcher asks one last out-of-band question before ending the session: does the launcher still think the game is up? On Windows that reads Steam's per-app `Running` registry flag. It was only ever meant to be a tie-breaker for a scan that momentarily can't see the game — a launcher re-execing, an engine relaunching itself into a new pid. It had no bound. Honouring the flag reset the confirm window every pass, so a flag Steam left set — it does that whenever it doesn't cleanly observe the exit: it crashed, it was closed first, the game re-parented — pinned the lease in `running` for the life of the host. The console kept showing the game, `session_on_game_exit` never fired, and the only way to get the stream back was a manual "End". Reported from the field on Windows 0.24.0. `steam_running_hint` also believes the FIRST hive that says so, so a stale flag in any loaded profile was enough. The absence timer now keeps running instead of being reset, and that is what bounds it: past `VETO_LIMIT` (30 s) with nothing of the game on the box, the launcher's opinion is stale rather than early and the session ends anyway, logged at WARN so it is visible. Ending a moment early is the cheaper failure — the stream drops while the game lives, the user reconnects, and nothing is ever killed. Ending never was the bug. The rule is now a pure `exit_confirmed(gone_for, hint_running)` with a test. The watch loop polls a live process table and can't be unit-tested, which is exactly how an unbounded veto shipped unnoticed.