Portably killing/signalling another process not supported?

[Christian Heimes]

John Nagle wrote:
>     There doesn't seem to be any way to portably kill another process
> in Python.  "os.kill" is Mac/Unix only.  The "signal" module only lets
> you send signals to the current process.  And the "subprocess" module
> doesn't have a "kill" function.
> 
>     Subprocess objects really should have a portable "interrupt" or
> "kill" function.  They already have "poll" and "wait", which have
> to be implemented differently for different systems; that's the
> logical place for "kill".
> 
>     Yes, there are nonportable workarounds
> (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/347462)
> but no portable solution.

We are looking for somebody to implement a portable and cross platform
implementation of kill() and send_signal() for the subprocess module.
Are you interested in working on a patch for Python 2.6 and 3.0?