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>>Look, we don't want SIGINT, okay???
>
>
> yes you do.  SIGINT kills the proc.  on windows the 'process' is asked to
> 'call it quits' and that doesn't really work, especially when the 'process' in
> in a hung state and is less than cooperative.
>
>

On Win2k the task mgr. will say something like,
"Process not responding. Do you want to end it now and lose your data?"
So, they must have some way of killing it.