fix: isolate embedded seekdb in a new session

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Summary

• start the POSIX embedded seekdb child as a new session leader with POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
• keep the Windows child isolated from the parent console process group with CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP
• add a regression test that verifies the POSIX child has its own SID and PGID while remaining directly waitable

Rationale

The embedded seekdb process was spawned with --embedded --nodaemon but inherited the caller's session, process group, and controlling terminal. Terminal and job-control signals targeting PowerContext's foreground process group could therefore also interrupt or stop seekdb.

Starting seekdb in a new session detaches it from the caller's controlling terminal and also makes it the leader of a new process group. It remains a direct child, so the existing PID ownership, readiness checks, and waitpid() lifecycle continue to work without switching seekdb to daemon mode.

Scope

• this prevents terminal-generated signals for the parent session/process group from being delivered to seekdb
• this does not prevent an external tool from directly sending SIGSTOP or another signal to the seekdb PID
• Windows has no POSIX session equivalent, so it retains the corresponding console process-group isolation

Validation

• clang-format --dry-run --Werror lib/src/port.c lib/tests/test_process_spawn.cc
• cmake --build build-signal --target seekdb_tests -j2
• ctest --test-dir build-signal --output-on-failure -j1 — 17/17 passed with the seekdb 1.4.0 release binary matching the target bindings revision

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved process isolation across supported platforms by starting spawned processes in independent sessions or process groups.
  • Reduced the impact of console control events on child processes.

• Tests

  • Added coverage confirming that spawned processes receive their own session and process group.
  • Improved startup failure diagnostics by displaying recent database logs when concurrent startup encounters an error.

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The diagnostic run completed. Format and ASan/UBSan passed; the regular integration job failed again while starting the second embedded instance. The new server log shows that the second instance completed storage/schema startup and then failed in start net frame with OB_ERR_UNEXPECTED; its effective settings were mysql_port_mode=specified and mysql_port=2881, so it collided with the first instance. This is the compatibility gap already addressed by #60, which passes the platform-specific operational port mode on every spawn (Linux/macOS: TCP disabled and Unix socket used). #60 is approved, mergeable, and green. The session-isolation commit merges cleanly with its head. PR #64 should be refreshed after #60 lands; no retry or resource-limit workaround is needed.

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Walkthrough

The change updates process-group and session creation, adds POSIX process-spawn coverage, and prints recent database startup logs when concurrent startup raises seekdb.SeekdbError.

Changes

Process spawning and startup diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Process group and session setup lib/src/port.c	Windows children now use CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP. POSIX children now start with POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, with Android-specific POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK and added attribute error handling.
Process session test wiring lib/tests/CMakeLists.txt, lib/tests/test_process_spawn.cc	A non-Windows GTest target verifies that a spawned process is a session and process-group leader, then terminates and reaps it.
Concurrent startup failure diagnostics python/tests/connection_options_test.py	The test prints up to the final 200 log lines for both database directories when concurrent startup raises seekdb.SeekdbError. Log-read errors do not replace the original exception.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 24f28

Concurrent embedded instances currently cannot start together because they collide on the configured port, blocking the regular integration workflow. Include the per-spawn port configuration before merge; also make the new process-spawn test use Android’s sleep path.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: isolating embedded seekdb processes in a new session. It matches the session-isolation implementation and regression test.
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/tests/test_process_spawn.cc`:
- Line 16: Update the sleep executable path in the test to use /system/bin/sleep
on Android while preserving /bin/sleep for other supported platforms, so
spawn_process resolves the correct binary.

In `@python/tests/connection_options_test.py`:
- Line 145: Configure a unique per-instance operational/MySQL port before the
concurrent second seekdb.aopen startup, matching the platform-specific settings
from PR `#60`. Ensure the first and second database instances do not share
mysql_port, while preserving the existing concurrent startup flow.

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