The tracer is very good at preserving itself, so unsetting the tracing-specific
variables from within a process will not end tracing for children of
that process.
The way the actions process model works means that we're running inside
a process for the entire build step that was launched with the tracer
variables set, so we'll have the tracer injected into the entire build
step and its children.
If we unset the variables in end-tracing, we will get into an intermediate
state: Not all variables in there are preserved by the tracer,
but the tracer is still active.
Usually, that wouldn't be a problem, but the autobuilders called from
the finalize step will suddenly run under a half-configured tracer.
Particularly, this half-configured tracer is unable to execute the dotnet
CLI without hangs, as the environment variable that prevents hangs for
dotnet on MacOS has been unset, but the tracer is still active.
This is an issue for the the go autobuilder, that invokes
user-provided build scripts in the hope of installing dependencies.
If that build script then invokes dotnet, it will hang.
This is only of concern for the Lua tracer that now implements proper
multi-language tracing: Previously, when encountering the go autobuilder,
the tracer disabled itself entirely, thus side-stepping any hangs.
In the new, multi-language tracing world, the tracer will stay active
as long as there is at least one other language that's been set up
for tracing.
Thus, we also get hangs when invoking the dotnet CLI through the go
autobuilder.
This commit prints diagnostic messages to the Actions log when debug
logging is enabled by passing `debug: true` to `codeql-action/init` or
enabling Actions step debug logging.
This decorator enabled us to use the functionality of the Actions
toolcache within the runner too.
Now that we've deleted the runner we no longer need it.
`toolcache.extractTar` currently falls over when `ACTIONS_TEMP` contains
a symlink, and the runner no longer exists, so it's unlikely our
customers would be running with temporary directories that contain
symlinks.
This decorator enabled us to use the functionality of the Actions
toolcache within the runner too.
Now that we've deleted the runner we no longer need it.
In theory, a scanned language will not setup the build tracer, and so
shouldn't care about lua versus legacy tracing. However, `go` is a
special case where the autobuilder runs under the build tracer, that
then gets disabled immediately again, unless a special environment
variable is used.
Therefore, we need to thread through the feature flag to this
`database trace-command` invocation. For other scanned languages,
this should be a no-op, as no tracing is ever set up.
This avoids creating a __pycache__ folder in the _actions folder, which
may cause file ownership problems on self-hosted runners
when run in a docker container.
Cornelius Riemenschneider
Henry Mercer
Arthur Baars
Chuan-kai Lin
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Andrew Eisenberg