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Stopping background Bash task leaves child process running, output file grows
“Windows: stopping a background Bash task doesn't kill a process started via .bat, so the task output grew to 143 GB”
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On Windows, task shows as killed or "Successfully stopped task" but a native child process keeps looping, filling the task's .output file until the disk is full.
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- Background Bash tasks
- Versions
- 2.1.293
- Platforms
- Windows
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