fix: stabilize SSH stdio transport teardown

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Summary

• make stdio connection close idempotent without terminating the process
• make the one-shot stdio listener close deterministically and unblock Accept
• preserve normal SSH server unwinding and deferred cleanup
• add PipeBridge and SSH transport completion diagnostics
• upgrade github.com/devsy-org/ssh to v1.2.4

Verification

• task cli:tidy
• go test ./pkg/stdio ./pkg/tunnel ./pkg/ssh ./pkg/ssh/server ./pkg/agent/tunnelserver ./cmd/internal
• go mod verify
• git diff --check

task cli:test reaches the changed packages successfully but remains blocked by existing environment-sensitive tests in hack/sign_commit and pkg/git (Git identity and Git LFS assumptions).`

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved SSH and tunnel shutdown handling for cleaner, more reliable session termination.
  • Prevented repeated close operations from causing errors or unexpected process exits.
  • Ensured blocked connections end consistently when listeners or streams close.
  • Recognized normal network shutdown conditions without reporting them as failures.
  • Improved SSH keepalive handling so routine requests are answered without disrupting sessions.

• Diagnostics

  • Added debug information for completed SSH connections and tunnel operations.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change removes exit-on-close parameters from stdio, tunnel, and SSH APIs. It adds synchronized stdio closure and listener shutdown behavior. SSH and pipe bridge paths now log shutdown details, and dependencies are updated.

Changes

Stdio and tunnel lifecycle update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stdio stream and listener lifecycle pkg/stdio/conn.go, pkg/stdio/listener.go, pkg/stdio/*_test.go	StdioStream now closes once, stores close errors, and invokes an optional callback. StdioListener tracks acceptance and closure state, unblocks pending Accept calls, and returns net.ErrClosed.
Tunnel and SSH API migration pkg/agent/tunnelserver/..., pkg/ssh/helper.go, cmd/internal/..., cmd/machine/ssh.go, cmd/snapshot/create.go, cmd/workspace/logs.go, pkg/devcontainer/sshtunnel/..., pkg/tunnel/..., go.mod	Tunnel and SSH constructors no longer receive exit or timeout arguments. Keepalive requests are handled internally. All listed call sites use the new signatures. Related module versions are updated.
SSH shutdown handling and diagnostics cmd/internal/ssh_server.go, cmd/internal/ssh_server_test.go, pkg/ssh/server/ssh.go, pkg/tunnel/pipebridge.go	SSH shutdown handling treats net.ErrClosed as expected. SSH transport completion and pipe bridge completion now emit debug logs.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e6bf1

The PR stabilizes SSH transport teardown and adds diagnostics; the remaining keepalive reply-path coverage gap presents no actionable merge-blocking risk after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SSHServer
  participant StdioListener
  participant StdioStream
  SSHServer->>StdioListener: create listener with reader and writer
  StdioListener->>StdioStream: register markClosed callback
  StdioStream->>StdioListener: signal closure
  StdioListener-->>SSHServer: return net.ErrClosed from Accept
  SSHServer->>SSHServer: treat net.ErrClosed as clean shutdown

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pkg/ssh/keepalive_test.go (1)

12-12: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Cover the keepalive reply path.

The test uses WantReply=false, so it does not exercise the req.Reply(true, nil) branch. Add an SSH-level test that sends WantReply=true and verifies the success response.

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In `@pkg/ssh/keepalive_test.go` at line 12, Add an SSH-level test alongside the
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req.Reply(true, nil) path, and verifies the client receives a successful
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- Line 12: Add an SSH-level test alongside the existing keepalive test that
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and verifies the client receives a successful response. Preserve the existing
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