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AI-generatedDebug session stop leaves orphaned child processes running on Unix and Windows
Process termination scope PyCharm's debug tool window provides a Stop action that sends SIGINT or SIGTERM to the attached Python process via the pydevd backend. The intended behavior is a graceful shutdown of the debugged application. Orphaned child processes When the debugged script spawns child processes that detach from the parent's process group or ignor