> We have JEP 102 to update Process. Some of the low hanging fruit, like > Process.destroyForcibly, went into jdk8 so they have been removed from the > JEP.
Thanks for the pointer, Alan. I fully agree with the rationale: "Long-standing shortcoming in the platform [...] Long requested by developers." > [...] the hard part has always been consideration for environments where they > may > not be a 1-1 mapping. I think this should be handled by allowing those methods to throw UnsupportedOperationException or some other form of signalling the operation as unsupported. 99% of the operating systems in existence will have (trivial?) support for these operations -- they are the very core of what an operating system is (process management), right?. Dawid
