Reports processes that survive a bash kill. After a timeout, bash_kill, or cancelled call, AFT now re-checks the task's process group and names any member still running in live_descendants, the task text, and the completion notice — a process AFT cannot signal, such as one started with sudo and owned by another user, used to be reported as a clean kill.
Surviving members are listed with pid, owner, and executable name only, since arguments can hold credentials and are never kept in the record, status, or notice.
A check that cannot read every process reports listing_incomplete and keeps the members it did find; an unreadable /proc reports listing_failed, and a null list always carries the reason. A bash_kill on a finished task re-signals a group whose last check was incomplete or missing, but never one last seen empty.
macOS no longer drops another user's process from the listing, PTY tasks are checked after a kill, and a terminal state published mid-kill no longer skips the check.
The group listing is bounded: it describes at most 16 members cheaply and counts the rest without reading their command lines.
The bridge exports LiveDescendant and the unavailable reasons; docs now recommend bounding sudo commands yourself with timeout or a trap, since AFT cannot kill them.
Confidence Score: 5/5
The changes since the previous review appear safe to merge.
Summary
AFT reports processes left running after a kill, without saving their arguments.
AFT reports processes that remain after a bash task is killed.
A later kill reaches a finished task’s group only when its identity still matches.
Plugins can read typed survivor details and reasons for missing lists.
No new actionable issues were found in the changes since the previous review.
Diagram
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flowchart TD
A[Check task process group] --> B[Display up to 16 members]
A --> C[Save up to 1,024 process identities]
B --> D[Status and completion notice]
C --> E[Later kill of finished task]
E --> F{Saved process still in group?}
F -->|Yes| G[Signal group and check survivors]
F -->|No| H[Leave group alone]
