Specifications

Writes the data buffer to the standard input stream of this process.
The process may or may not read this data.
writeToStdin( buffer :
String )
Closes the standard input stream of the process.
closeStdin()
Asks the process to terminate. Processes can ignore this if they wish.
If you want to be certain that the process really terminates, you can
use kill() instead.
tryTerminate()
Terminates the process. This is not a safe way to end a process since
the process will not be able to do any cleanup. tryTerminate() is
safer, but processes can ignore tryTerminate().
kill()
Text encoding
JavaScript strings represent Unicode characters (internally encoded in UTF-16). Care must be taken
to preserve Unicode compliance when communicating with external programs - wherever possible.
Command line
The Process class passes the command line to the operating system (and thus to the external
program) in full Unicode compliance:
• On Mac OS the command line is UTF-8 encoded, which is the default filename encoding and
which turns out to be compatible with virtually all command-line tools.
• On Windows the command line is passed using a "wide" (16-bit-character) system call;
external programs should retrieve command line arguments using the "wide" (16-bit-character)
version of the Windows-specific “GetCommandLine” function rather than the argv[] argument
in the main C function (which supports only characters that can be encoded in the current
ANSI code page).
Console text streams
The Process class uses the following scheme for communicating with the stdin and stderr/stdout
text streams:
• Text is written to stdin using UTF-8 encoding.
• Text is read from stdout/stderr using UTF-8 encoding, unless the text doesn't conform to UTF-8
syntax, in which case it is interpreted using the current ANSI code page (on Windows) /
MacRoman or Latin1 encoding (on Mac OS).
While this behavior is not perfect in all cases, note that:
• UTF-8 is upwards compatible with 7-bit ASCII.
• If a byte stream conforms to UTF-8 syntax, there is a very high probability that it represents
a text string in UTF-8 encoding (as opposed to a text string in one of the common 8-bit legacy
encodings).
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