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2025 May 11
2
Is it possible to gracefully interrupt a child R process on MS Windows?
In help("pskill", package = "tools") is says:
Only SIGINT and SIGTERM will be defined on Windows, and pskill will
always use the Windows system call TerminateProcess.
As far as I understand it, TerminateProcess [1] terminates the process
"quite abruptly". Specifically, it is not possible for the process to
intercept the termination and gracefully shutdown. In R
2025 May 12
1
Is it possible to gracefully interrupt a child R process on MS Windows?
I think for reliability and portability of termination, one needs to
implement an application-specific termination protocol on both ends.
Only within specific application constraints, one can also define what
graceful termination means. Typically, one also has other expectations
from the termination process - such that the processes will terminate in
some finite time/soon. In some cases one