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terminating idle engine does not end engine process

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4/5
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3-5 days
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30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with example-provider.py and reproduce the idle-engine termination case on Windows, checking what happens while the engine is still working. Done means terminating an idle engine does not leave a terminated, unresponsive engine process present.

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Description

i am coming across a edge case where the engine keeps doing stuff but the example-provider.py script has terminated the idle engine
this leads to a situation where there's a terminated engine present that does not respond
this is happening on windows,

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