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The UNIX kill command (/usr/bin/kill on my box) sends SIGTERM (15) by default.
The builtin versions of kill in the various shells (csh, sh, bash, ...) 
do likewise.

In Emacs, (kill-process foo) sends SIGKILL (9).

Now perhaps all of the shells authors collectively made a mistake, but
my understanding of this is one simply shouldn't be using SIGKILL when 
SIGTERM will do the job, given that, by default, it's better to give a
process a chance to clean up after itself if it needs to and that only
if it abuses (or is inclined to abuse) this privilege do you hit it 
with a SIGKILL...

Proposal 1:
  (*) change kill-process to send SIGTERM
  (*) change delete-process to send SIGKILL directly
        (i.e., rather than call Fkill_process)

Proposal 2:
  (*) introduce terminate-process (sends SIGTERM),
  (*) change the documentation of kill-process to encourage
        people to use terminate-process instead.
  (*) change kill-process calls to terminate-process calls
        where possible (the current lisp distribution only has
        about 4 or 5 such calls)

Proposal 1 seems to me the Right Thing, given my conjecture (though
maybe this calls for a user poll) that in the vast majority of cases,
kill-process is used for polite termination and delete-process is 
used when one wants to terminate-with-extreme-prejuidice-and-forget.

Proposal 2 is, admittedly, guaranteed not to break any existing code.