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Esc or Control+C does not kill running process have to kill the conversation at all #5931
Description
What version of Codex is running?
0.50.0
What subscription do you have?
Team
Which model were you using?
gpt-5-codex
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.0.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
clicking esc on running npm run e2e:test did nothing it was not able to stop or kill it pressing Ctrl+C once didn't stop it, so had to do it twice and kill the conversation without ability to follow up on it, context is gone.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019a30cd-e300-7770-8b5f-2c01eacdb6d2
What is the expected behavior?
When clicking esc or Ctrl+C it kills command that it is running without killing codex process itself, so you can followup and change direction of the conversation.
Additional information
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github-actions commentedon Oct 29, 2025
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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fix(core): terminate exec sessions when aborting (openai#5931)
etraut-openai commentedon Nov 28, 2025
I think this bug has been fixed in recent versions. If you see it again with the latest version of the CLI, let us know.