# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Process poll deadlock and exit reconciliation fixes

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address a hang or deadlock in process poll when called on an already-exited background process, and a related fix to reconcile session exit state against the real child exit status during poll and wait operations.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #71008. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #71008 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #64533: process(action='poll') hangs indefinitely on already-exited background process

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#71008: fix(terminal): stop background reader blocking on orphan-held stdout pipes**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_process_registry.py`, `tools/process_registry.py`
- **#65002: fix: avoid process poll reader lock deadlock**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `9e4492fd74`, `#71008`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #71008 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-07-24`.
- Subsystem: `environments`