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Hi everyone, I have a Prefect task that starts a child process that can take a while to run. When I cancel the flow, the child process doesn't get killed with it and this takes resources for nothing. Is there a way to kill it?

I asked the same question yesterday, but running subflows from parent flows.
Not sure how this cancellation works

By looking at the process tree I see that the process of the flow run and the one that I start have as a parent the agent process. So when cancelling it does kill the process of the flow run but not mine.  That's why cancelling doesn't kill any process started by the flow run but then how do you do it :sweat_smile:

<@U02S7A5GEVA> did you ever find a solution for this?

I'm trying to figure out how to identify the subflows of a flow via the api

but I haven't found a way to do that either.
the child_flow_run_id field of the api repsonse is None, even though I know that there is a subflow

I never tried to do this. I know how to get the parent info from a subflow but not the other way around