Give Process.kill an optional argument to specify which signal to send.

runtime/bin/process_impl.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 class _ProcessStartStatus {
   int _errorCode;  // Set to OS error code if process start failed.
   String _errorMessage;  // Set to OS error message if process start failed.
 }
 
 
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     _exitHandler.inputStream.onData = () {
 
       int exitCode(List<int> ints) {
         var code = _intFromBytes(ints, 0);
         var negative = _intFromBytes(ints, 4);
         assert(negative == 0 || negative == 1);
         return (negative == 0) ? code : -code;
       }
 
       void handleExit() {
+        _killed = true;
         if (_onExit !== null) {
           _onExit(exitCode(exitDataBuffer));
         }
       }
 
       exitDataRead += _exitHandler.inputStream.readInto(
           exitDataBuffer, exitDataRead, EXIT_DATA_SIZE - exitDataRead);
       if (exitDataRead == EXIT_DATA_SIZE) handleExit();
     };
 
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     return _err.inputStream;
   }
 
   OutputStream get stdin() {
     if (_closed) {
       throw new ProcessException("Process closed");
     }
     return _out.outputStream;
   }
 
-  void kill() {
+  void kill([ProcessSignal signal = ProcessSignal.SIGTERM]) {
+    if (signal is! ProcessSignal) {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+          "Argument 'force' must be a ProcessSignal");

[Mads Ager (google), 2012/06/12 09:13:44]

'force' -> 'signal'

[Anders Johnsen, 2012/06/12 09:21:04]

Done.

+    }
     if (_closed && _pid === null) {
       _reportError(new ProcessException("Process closed"));
       return;
     }
     if (_killed) {
       return;
     }
     // TODO(ager): Make the actual kill operation asynchronous.
-    if (_kill(_pid)) {
-      _killed = true;
+    if (_kill(_pid, signal._signalNumber)) {
       return;
     }
     _reportError(new ProcessException("Could not kill process"));
     return;
   }
 
-  void _kill(int pid) native "Process_Kill";
+  void _kill(int pid, int signal) native "Process_Kill";
 
   void close() {
     if (_closed) {
       throw new ProcessException("Process closed");
     }
     _in.close();
     _out.close();
     _err.close();
     _exitHandler.close();
     _closed = true;
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 class _ProcessResult implements ProcessResult {
   const _ProcessResult(int this.exitCode,
                        String this.stdout,
                        String this.stderr);
 
   final int exitCode;
   final String stdout;
   final String stderr;
 }