On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 17:40, Chris Angelico wrote: > Bear in mind, though, that Windows has no protection against other > processes shutting you down.
Neither does Unix. Any process that can send you a signal can send you SIGKILL. Of course, what Windows lacks is a generalized way for other processes to send "less destructive" signals that do give you a chance to clean up. (You can sometimes send a ctrl-break event, but that's it.) And most frameworks for "emulating" them (including python's os module) simulate sending other signals by calling TerminateProcess with an exit status related to the signal. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
