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Windows desktop MCP child processes lingering after exit

Cluster 132069 · 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.

One issue reports that the desktop app leaves MCP child processes running after exit. Two members share an identical pull request title about declaring winapi signatures and dropping SILENT_BREAKAWAY_OK so a kill-on-close job works on Windows, which appears related but whose outcome is not stated here.

Open issues1

  • Issue#132069Desktop leaves MCP child processes running after exit

Open PRs1

  • PR#137860fix(win32): declare winapi signatures and drop SILENT_BREAKAWAY_OK so the kill-on-close job works

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #135689 fix(win32): declare winapi signatures and drop SILENT_BREAKAWAY_OK so the kill-on-close job works · superseded by another PR → #137860
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(structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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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Closed issues
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Attempts
1 PR closed without merging

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