{"version":"2.1.122","anchor":"background-process-sigterm-escalation","canonical_anchor":"background-process-sigterm-escalation","heading":"Background Process SIGTERM Escalation","tier":null,"area":null,"scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.122\/e\/background-process-sigterm-escalation","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.122","markdown":"### Background Process SIGTERM Escalation\n\nWhen killing a background shell process with SIGTERM, if the process doesn't exit within 5 seconds, it's now automatically escalated to SIGKILL. This prevents zombie processes from lingering indefinitely.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nNew SIGKILL escalation timeout in the pty manager (visible in the `yM8` structural change adding a 5000ms timeout for SIGTERM\u2192SIGKILL escalation)"}