Orphaned processes after task stop

“The programs that shell had started (grep.exe, find.exe, du.exe, sleep.exe, head.exe … from Git\usr\bin) are not killed.”

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Still happening. 1 report in each of the last two weeks, down from 2 a week at the late-September peak.

Stopped background Bash tasks leave child processes running after bash exits. Stopping or timing out a background task kills bash.exe but leaves programs it started, such as grep.exe, tail.exe, and du.exe, running with no parent.

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Where: Bash tool
Versions: 2.1.220 to 2.1.316
Platforms: Linux, Windows

Part of: Killed commands leave orphaned processes5 bugs

Orphaned git.exe processes pile up5 people
Hook timeout hangs tool call2 people
Worktree isolation refused2 people
Stopping background Bash task leaves child process running, output file grows2 people

Not quite your bug?

Finished Bash calls stuck Running2 people

Original reports9, newest first

Nov 2, 2026Bash tool on Windows: a timed-out or stopped task leaves its child processes running (orphaned grep.exe grew to 13.8 GB)#106742
Oct 31, 2026[Windows] Background tail -f | grep pipelines orphaned after session ends (still reproduces, re-open of #77593)#106483
Oct 22, 2026Fable 5.1 read-only watcher session took a production news site down for 41 minutes: ran a disk walk on the host, TaskStop killed only the shell, orphaned du.exe starved the server for 70 minutes#104388
Oct 20, 2026Stopping a workflow leaves Bash background shells started by its subagents running (Linux)#103658
Oct 10, 2026[Windows] TaskStop / background-task kill leaves Git Bash child processes running (orphaned grep, find, du, sleep for hours)#101012
Oct 8, 2026[Windows] Monitor / background Bash pipelines orphan tail/grep grandchildren after bash exits (66 found, oldest 167 h)#100399
Oct 3, 2026[CRITICAL] Sub-agent ran rm -rf on the user's Windows home directory (via 8.3 short name), no hard guard; delete kept running after the task was stopped#99198
Oct 3, 2026Windows: sub-agent rm -rf on the 8.3 short-name alias of the home dir wiped ~116 GB; TaskStop left it running ~50 min; agent reported 'looks intact' (related: #92593, #95426, #97660)#99193
Sep 17, 2026Monitor/TaskStop removes the task from the panel but leaves the spawned process running (orphaned tail -F accumulates)#95242