Hi Yohanes,

Thanks for your reply.

> > Do any of you have any idea if it would be possible to kill the thread
> > "immediately"?
> 
> Use Thread.kill as you did.
> 
> > I have a real-world program in which I have a very
> > costly external program I'd like to interrupt immediately, under some
> > circumstances.
> 
> And then send a SIGTERM to that external process.

This may be a dummy question, but how can I know the PID of the process?

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