[issue12540] "Restart Shell" command leaves pythonw.exe processes running

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

This nasty bug really can cause severe problems. If a zombie process ran a tkinter (tk) window, then attempting to logout/restart/shutdown eventually brings up a window I have never seen before: End Process -- EmbeddedMenuWindow. The message window shows a countdown timer that implies that it will shutdown the process automatically when the timer reaches 0. But it does not because the process does not respond. It will sit there indefinitely. One has to click a shutdown button to get rid of it.  Then a few seconds later, another window for the next zombie appears. And so on. It there are 50 zombies, then one would have to repeat 50 times. Not acceptible to me.

Since IDLE is my Python workspace and since I plan to soon start running lots of tkinter tests and experiments soon, I am reverting to 3.2.0 until there is a fixed Windows binary.

Adding the two listed Windows experts.

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nosy: +brian.curtin, tim.golden

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