review request: 4244896: (process) Provide System.getPid(), System.killProcess(String pid)

[Jason Mehrens]

Rob,
 
> 2) As Alan noted, there is really no need for isAlive() if people are 
> happy with the idea of waitFor(long, TimeUnit). I'd appreciate any 
> feedback on this aspect of the fix.
 
Process.isAlive is similar to Future.isDone(). I think isAlive fills that need to have a simple query method that doesn't throw exceptions.
 
Jason