Why won't Go kill a child process correctly?

Question

The following works just fine when cmd finishes in the allotted time. However, the timeout is not working. While it does print \"It\'s dead Jim\", not only do

Answer 1

Just for reference, I'll put my Windows solution here as well:

func kill(cmd *exec.Cmd) error {
    kill := exec.Command("TASKKILL", "/T", "/F", "/PID", strconv.Itoa(cmd.Process.Pid))
    kill.Stderr = os.Stderr
    kill.Stdout = os.Stdout
    return kill.Run()
 }