fix(zombie): cap zombie detection by the latest send time (0.7.3, hot-patchable) - #72

Refs #70. A hot-patchable variant of #71 for patch-0.7.3.

Why

Zombie-connection detection fires at request timeout + max_inactive after the latest send. A production deployment runs with a 600 s request timeout, so a dead connection is reconnected only after 610 s. Requests with an infinity timeout never record an expiry, so detection never fires for them.

What

• put_sent_req/3 records the send time in the process dictionary under last_sent_ts.
• check_gun_jammed/3 reads last_sent_ts. When it is an integer and requests are in flight, the connection is also reconnected when now - last_sent_ts > max(max_inactive, ?INACTIVE_CAP). ?INACTIVE_CAP is 60 s.
• When last_sent_ts is undefined, only the existing expiry check runs.
• The existing expiry check always runs, so detection is never later than before.

The combined rule is the clamp from #71, max(MaxInactive, min(Cap, Timeout + MaxInactive)) after the latest send, written without a stored timeout:

Hot patch

#state{}, the requests map and all message formats are unchanged. The module can be loaded into a running node with code:load_file/1 or c:nl/1, and no code_change is needed. A worker that has not sent a request since the load has no last_sent_ts, so it uses only the expiry check until its next send.

The reconnect branch in maybe_shoot/1 no longer asserts MaxExpire > 0, because a pool of infinity-timeout requests now reaches it with no expiry recorded. The zombie log adds last_request_sent_at and inactive_duration_cap.

Incompatible case

A response that legitimately takes longer than max(max_inactive, 60s) now has its connection killed at that point. Received data does not count as activity. Raise max_inactive to the slowest expected response.

Tests

?INACTIVE_CAP is 2 s in the TEST build. With the default max_inactive of 10 s the effective cap stays 10 s, so the other tests are not affected.

• zombie_detect_long_timeout_test: max_inactive = 1s, request timeout 30 s, server never answers. reconnect fires between 2 s and 3.5 s.
• zombie_detect_infinity_timeout_test: the same, with request timeout infinity.
• The existing zombie_detect_inflight_* tests pass unchanged.

Both new tests fail against unpatched patch-0.7.3.

Run locally on OTP 28: make fmt-check, ./check-style.sh, make compile, make xref, make dialyzer, make eunit. make eunit has 9 failures, all in ehttpc_google_tests:proxy_test_, because tinyproxy is not installed on the host. The hot load itself was not tested on a live node.

CI

.github/workflows/erlang.yml ran only for main, so this PR got no CI run. A separate ci: commit adds 'patch-*' to the push and pull_request branch filters.