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The API for [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/NsIProcess nsIProcess] is not fully implemented on Win32 and OSX and not at all on Linux. At present, the PID of a created process is not retained and cannot be killed. The API would also benifit from a new spec that includes inter-process communication.
An example of an API that for creating processes and communicating with them through STDIN/STDOUT is the Python subprocess module:
