Summary
kill is currently not shipped in Coreutils for Windows because Windows does not provide POSIX signals. However, Windows can still terminate processes by process ID through native process APIs.
This issue proposes adding a Windows-specific kill implementation that supports PID-based process termination while clearly documenting that it is not full POSIX signal support.
Proposed behavior
Support commands such as:
kill <PID>
kill -9 <PID>
kill -KILL <PID>
kill -TERM <PID>
kill -s KILL <PID>
kill --signal=TERM <PID>
kill --list
Summary
killis currently not shipped in Coreutils for Windows because Windows does not provide POSIX signals. However, Windows can still terminate processes by process ID through native process APIs.This issue proposes adding a Windows-specific
killimplementation that supports PID-based process termination while clearly documenting that it is not full POSIX signal support.Proposed behavior
Support commands such as: