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OpenClaw Bug Fix Prevents Silent Request Leaks in AI Assistant
A bug in OpenClaw's fetchWithTimeout utility silently discarded caller-provided AbortSignals, causing cancelled requests to continue running. The fix ensures proper signal merging, preventing resource leaks under concurrent load. The open-source AI assistant project accepted the pull request.
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The fix addresses a subtle concurrency issue that could degrade performance in production, but the bug's impact depends on how aggressively callers use cancellation.
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The Signal Nobody Heard, Fixing a Silent AbortSignal Bug in OpenClaw →
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