Historically, this was thought to be not an option because Windows doesn't
have exec (or fork).
Cygwin's emulation of fork does create a windows subprocess, I believe.
The desire to have clean shutdown of the Java process does make things more
interesting as well, as you point out.
One use case i
It would be useful for processes which self-update or otherwise
self-manage to be able to exec a new process which replaces the current
one, in the manner of POSIX execve. This might tie in with
ProcessBuilder, though there are a few key differences:
1. The method to execute the process (obvi
