Leaves dangling child processes on Windows

[llong2195]

Current Behavior

#28207 The issue also occurs with 19.8.x, but the fix was only released for 20.x. I’m hesitant to upgrade Nx to v20 due to potential new issues. I hope a fix will be available soon for 19.8.x.

Expected Behavior

I hope a fix will be available soon for 19.8.x.

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Run a NX command which uses the nx:run-commands executor
2. Kill the command in the terminal with ctrl+c
3. Check Windows Task Manager to see that the process that was started is still running (this is easiest to see if the first process starts a server on a port since the second run will now fail since that port is still in-use)

Nx Report

Node : 20.18.0
OS : win32-x64
Native Target : x86_64-windows
pnpm : 9.12.2

nx : 19.8.8
@nx/js : 19.8.8
@nx/jest : 19.8.8
@nx/linter : 19.8.8
@nx/eslint : 19.8.8
@nx/workspace : 19.8.8
@nx/cypress : 19.8.8
@nx/devkit : 19.8.8
@nx/eslint-plugin : 19.8.8
@nx/nest : 19.8.8
@nx/next : 19.8.8
@nx/node : 19.8.8
@nx/react : 19.8.8
@nrwl/tao : 19.8.8
@nx/web : 19.8.8
@nx/webpack : 19.8.8
typescript : 5.6.3

Registered Plugins:
@nx/next/plugin
@nx/webpack/plugin
@nx/eslint/plugin
@nx/jest/plugin
@nx/cypress/plugin

Failure Logs

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Package Manager Version

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Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
• Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

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