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Windows backend -1 exit attribution and surfacing

Cluster 119440 · apps/desktop. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
1open PR
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

These items concern a Windows-specific issue where backend processes exit with code 4294967295 (-1) due to tree-kill, and work to correctly attribute and surface those exits rather than treating them as unexpected crashes or respawn triggers.

Open issues1

  • Issue#119440Desktop: backend exits 4294967295 (-1) with empty stderr → respawn / port-announcement timeout (Windows multi-instance race)

Open PRs1

  • PR#128420fix(desktop): surface superseded backend exits and attribute Windows tree-kill -1 exits

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #119524 fix(desktop): attribute Windows backend -1 exits to tree-kill owner · superseded by another PR
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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