Add Windows support for kill by process ID --from winuxcmd project

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing handling of the kill command and the Windows process-management APIs available for terminating a process by PID. Check each proposed invocation, including numeric and named signals, and document the limits of the implementation; done means the listed commands work on Windows without implying full POSIX signal support.

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Description

C-feature

Summary

kill is currently not shipped in Coreutils for Windows because Windows does not provide POSIX signals. However, Windows can still terminate processes by process ID through native process APIs.

This issue proposes adding a Windows-specific kill implementation that supports PID-based process termination while clearly documenting that it is not full POSIX signal support.

Proposed behavior

Support commands such as:

kill <PID>
kill -9 <PID>
kill -KILL <PID>
kill -TERM <PID>
kill -s KILL <PID>
kill --signal=TERM <PID>
kill --list
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