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Claude Code v2.1.247 ·

Dead background terminal hosts are cleaned up rather than hung on

Background sessions whose terminal process died are now killed and marked failed instead of hanging.

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Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.247,
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What

A background session whose terminal host process has exited but was never reaped is now detected, force-killed and marked failed, instead of leaving the session apparently alive.

Details
  • Reports a new telemetry event, tengu_bg_ptyhost_zombie, carrying the session short id, how it was reached, its state, its uptime in milliseconds and how many clients were attached.
Evidence

tengu_bg_ptyhost_zombie

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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