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Rank, 14 days: 71 on the Claude Code sheet
19 people reported

All time, since Sep 15, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Killed commands leave orphaned processes

“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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Fading. 1 report or thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 2 the week before, down from 5 a week at the late-September peak.

5 bugs in this theme

  1. Orphaned processes after task stopNo workaround yet8 people
  2. Orphaned git.exe processes pile upNo workaround yet5 people
  3. Hook timeout hangs tool callHas a workaround2 people
  4. Worktree isolation refusedNo workaround yet2 people
  5. Stopping background Bash task leaves child process running, output file growsNo workaround yet2 people

What's included

  • TaskStop or a background-task kill reports success, but grep, find, tail, sleep or python.exe started by Git Bash keep running for hours
  • Desktop diff-panel and CLI git status probes time out; only the Git for Windows launcher dies and git.exe piles up until memory runs out, worse on SMB shares and WSL folders
  • A hook that exceeds its timeout leaves an orphaned descendant holding the stdout pipe, and the session hangs mid-turn
  • A surviving looping process keeps writing to the background task output file until the disk fills (hundreds of GB)
  • Stopping a workflow leaves subagent background shell loops alive, reparented to systemd on Linux

Not included

  • Bash tool command strings that lose backslashes before bash sees them
  • Bash tool commands cut off at 8,186 characters by Git Bash
  • Bash tool sessions starting with a Windows-format PATH after the login-shell probe times out

Original reports19, newest first

  1. Bash tool on Windows: a timed-out or stopped task leaves its child processes running (orphaned grep.exe grew to 13.8 GB)#106742
  2. [Windows] Background tail -f | grep pipelines orphaned after session ends (still reproduces, re-open of #77593)#106483
  3. Windows: TaskStop reports success but leaves native grandchild running; background task output unbounded (579 GB file)#105575
  4. Fable 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
  5. Stopping a workflow leaves Bash background shells started by its subagents running (Linux)#103658
  6. Worktree isolation refused as "git metadata that could not be resolved" when git probe exceeds fixed 2000 ms timeout (Windows)#102524
  7. Windows: killing background Bash task leaves pyenv-win python.exe orphaned, output file grows unbounded#101456
  8. claude agents --json leaves suspended git ... remote children behind (Windows)#101182
  9. [Windows] TaskStop / background-task kill leaves Git Bash child processes running (orphaned grep, find, du, sleep for hours)#101012
  10. [Windows] Monitor / background Bash pipelines orphan tail/grep grandchildren after bash exits (66 found, oldest 167 h)#100399
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  1. [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
  2. Windows: 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
  3. [Windows][WSL] Desktop diff-panel git probes still leak orphaned git.exe after #94655, when the session's folder is in WSL (\\wsl.localhost)#98440
  4. Windows: timed-out git status leaves orphaned git.exe processes that pile up until memory is exhausted#97752
  5. [Windows] Hook timeout doesn't release the tool call while an orphaned descendant still holds the hook's stdout#96945
  6. [Windows] Hook timeout kills only the Git Bash launcher; an orphaned grandchild keeps the stdout pipe open and the session hangs mid-turn indefinitely#96476
  7. EnterWorktree intermittently refuses a valid, already-registered worktree with "git identity could not be verified"#96195
  8. Monitor/TaskStop removes the task from the panel but leaves the spawned process running (orphaned tail -F accumulates)#95242
  9. [Windows] Desktop git-shadow probes leak orphaned git.exe on large SMB repos — timeout kills the Git for Windows launcher, not git; 55 procs / 20 GB in 1 h (follow-up to #86646)#94655

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