Re: Differences in Process#destroy() between Windows and Unix implementations

[Alan Bateman]

Rémi Forax wrote:
The soft way to kill a process on windows to send a WM_CLOSE/WM_QUIT.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2055753/how-to-gracefully-terminate-a-process
Rémi
Yes, that could work for graphical/foreground applications but there is 
also the issue of services or applications that don't have a UI.

In general, this request to destroy a process is just one of many things 
that need to be done to improve the support (and notion) of process in 
the API.

-Alan