NuProcess, orphaned processes on Windows
contributor, 2021
A Java library for launching other programs. On Windows it binds what it launches to the process that owns it, so those programs end when the Java program does.
NuProcess is the library a Java program uses to run other programs, and on Windows anything it launched carried on running after the Java program died abruptly. This uses the Windows facility that binds a group of processes together, so everything NuProcess launches ends when its owner does.