In 2018 I worked on a Laravel based project where a temporary file was created during download, which had to be deleted after it was downloaded. Laravel relies on a lof of Symfony component and can handle any implementation of Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response. This seemed really handy because Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\BinaryFileResponse has a deleteFileAfterSend method. This was running for a while but suddenly the operators got in touch because the disks were slowly filling up. As it turns out, deleteFileAfterSend is only called when the download completes but in case the connection is aborted the execution stops and deleteFileAfterSend never gets called.
While investigating, I found symfony/symfony#27538 bug report. In that ticket the proposed solution was to use ignore_user_abort function, but during testing, I noticed high CPU load and the site started to respond slower and slower. After some more digging, it turned out inside BinaryFileResponse stream_copy_to_stream function copies the temporary file to the response file descriptor and when user abort is ignored it does not terminate the execution until it finishes the copy. I reported my finding in that issue and commented with an optional fix but at that moment in time I wasn’t confident enough to open a pull request (PR).
There was not much activity on the ticket for a long time. I played some ping-pong with the archive bot and in 2021 I tried to escalate things. I was asked to create a PR and I opened symfony/symfony#42033 with my solution from 2018. A year passed, and I tried to escalate again but this time the stars aligned, and my PR from previous year was merged.