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-Discussion threads also included some notable grumbling about the Port API in general, it seems this part of ERTS is overdue for a larger redesign.  There's a good opportunity to unify the different platform implementations: Windows lacks the erl_child_setup layer entirely, for example.
+== Future directions ==
+Discussion threads also included some notable grumbling about the Port API in general, it seems this part of ERTS is overdue for a larger redesign.
+There's a good opportunity to unify the different platform implementations: Windows lacks the erl_child_setup layer entirely, for example.
+Another idea to borrow from the erlexec library is to have an option to kill the entire process group of a child, which is shared by any descendants that haven't explicitly broken out of its original group.  This would be useful for managing deep trees of external processes launched by a forked command.
 == References ==