[RUN-4429] Document child process kill limitation#1829
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Documents a known limitation of Rundeck’s “Kill Job” behavior so users understand that aborting/killing a job may not terminate child processes spawned by the job.
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- Adds a note under Killing Jobs clarifying that killing a job may not kill child processes.
- Calls out the behavior as a platform limitation (not guaranteed).
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| > **Note:** Killing a job stops the job and the main process Rundeck controls. | ||
| > Child processes spawned by the job may not be killed. | ||
| > This is a known platform limitation and is not guaranteed. |
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Killing a job does not guarantee that child processes on the node will also be terminated. This is an architectural limitation of how Rundeck interacts with the underlying OS and remote executors.