Re: [PATCH] compat/mingw: Allow SIGKILL to kill in mingw_kill.

> Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > mingw_kill() only allows SIGTERM for killing a process.
> >
> > Let's also allow the natural SIGKILL for the same so that callers don't
> > have to do ifdef soup for special Windows handling.
>
> [...]
> 
> The current code only handles TERM (to terminate) or 0 (to probe)
> and everything else results in EINVAL, so the updated behaviour is
> to pretend as if TERM is sent and do whatever PROCESS_TERMINATE
> does, instead of doing nothing and erroring with EINVAL.  Which does
> sound like an improvement over the status quo.
> 
> What I am wondering is if there are different kind of "kill" in the
> Windows land, just like there are distinction between TERM and KILL.
> For example, the program ought to be able to block TERM but not
> KILL.  There are other termination-inducing signals like SIGQUIT but
> until we start using them in our code, this emulation layer does not
> have to know about them, I think.