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Force closing the child process upon closing the stdio process

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The issue was raised and reproducible in #271

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Added a manual test + tried adding the scenario from the issue with Microsoft's playwright-mcp

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Sending SIGKILL immediately doesn't allow the server to perform graceful shutdown, I don't think we should do that. So let's give the process a couple of seconds to exit by itself, and only send SIGKILL if it hangs.

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@Skn0tt thanks, you are right, pushed a more graceful exit.

@TomasRup TomasRup requested a review from Skn0tt April 11, 2025 13:10
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After sleeping a couple nights over this, i'm not convinced this PR is the right approach. The gist of #271 is that close() doesn't block until the process is closed. This PR doesn't adress that, but instead adds graceful shutdown, which is a different issue. Before we implement graceful shutdown, I think we should coordinate with the project maintainers in a separate issue.

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Skn0tt commented Aug 14, 2025

I gave it a go myself: #821

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