microsoft / microsoft/PTVS

Track conda activation timeout process-tree cleanup

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Since Jun 23, 2026.

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Description

Follow-up from https://github.com/microsoft/PTVS/pull/8559.\n\nThe current timeout path kills the activate.bat/cmd wrapper process. Investigate terminating the full activation process tree so timed-out conda activation does not leave orphaned child python.exe processes.

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