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
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