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I/O tabs which corresponding processes are already gone should be closed or marked somehow. In any case they should not stay bold in their heading, meaning that the process still writes to it.
Just close the OutputWriter and you're done: Finally we have a proper handling (closing) of output writers http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib/rev/7fd28d914537
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