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MCP stdio child process orphan cleanup on failure

Cluster 72887 · mcp. 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 address a bug where MCP stdio child processes are not terminated when a connection attempt fails or is cancelled, leaving orphaned processes that hold resource locks and cause a permanent 'connecting' state.

Open issues1

  • Issue#72887MCP stdio child not terminated when connect attempt is cancelled — orphaned server holds resource lock, permanent 'connecting'

Open PRs1

  • PR#73261fix(mcp): reap orphaned stdio children immediately on connect failure (#72887)

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 1

  • #73593 fix(agent): terminate MCP stdio child process when connect is cancelled · duplicate → #73261
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(structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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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