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Bob Newell wrote:

> If 'body' is running a /process/, however, an
> Emacs timer can trigger a call to
> 'kill-process' or 'interrupt-process' to halt
> the process.

But this only works for Unix processes, the
equivalent of doing

    $ program &
    $ # ...
    $ pkill -9 program

in the shell, right?

Can one do this for arbitrary Elisp
in/from Emacs?

If so, how?

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