Fix background process kill receipt timing issue
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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #116952 on 20 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.
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- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #116952. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These items address a bug where cancelling or incompletely killing a background process causes it to disappear from or remain incorrectly listed in the background process list. The fix ensures the process tree is verified as dead before a killed receipt is written.
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Fixes on record
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#116952 fix(process): an incomplete kill keeps the background entry listed instead of writing a killed receipt (#115490, salvage #115504)
files:
tests/tools/test_kill_verify_tree_death.py,tests/tools/test_process_registry.py,tools/process_registry.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: merged via another change 1
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#115504 fix(process): verify tree death before writing killed receipt · merged via another change →
a931b45,#116952,#115490,#115504
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#115490[Bug][Desktop]: live background process missing from background list after cancelled kill
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- Merged PRs
- #116952
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- 1 PR closed without merging
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- 20 Sep 2026