Defect

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• Included the relevant process-compose log (log location: process-compose info)
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Version of process-compose:

1.73.0

OS environment:

Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:30:30 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64

Steps or code to reproduce the issue:

Run process-compose with this config:

version: "0.5"
is_strict: true

processes:
  failing_process:
    command: echo "This will fail" && exit 1
    ready_log_line: This will never appear
  
  dependent_process:
    command: echo "This should be skipped but gets stuck in pending"
    depends_on:
      failing_process:
        condition: process_log_ready
    availability:
      exit_on_skipped: true

Expected result:

• failing_process should fail immediately (exit code 1)
• dependent_process should be marked as skipped because its dependency failed and process-compose is not going to attempt to restart it
• process-compose should exit due to exit_on_skipped: true

Actual result:

• failing_process fails immediately as expected
• dependent_process gets stuck in "Pending" state indefinitely
• process-compose never exits
• When run in non-TUI mode, process-compose hangs and kill -9 is the only way to stop it

The log says just: 25-09-03 15:42:56.059 INF Process Compose v1.73.0