diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bbbbb0e41..b3a1b70cd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2529,6 +2529,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "indicatif 0.11.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "lazy_static 1.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "log 0.4.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "nix 0.14.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "reqwest 0.9.18 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "ring 0.13.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "serde 1.0.94 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/install/Cargo.toml b/install/Cargo.toml
index 571a08112..40405b670 100644
--- a/install/Cargo.toml
+++ b/install/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ dirs = "2.0.1"
 indicatif = "0.11.0"
 lazy_static = "1.3.0"
 log = "0.4.2"
+nix = "0.14.1"
 reqwest = "0.9.18"
 ring = "0.13.2"
 serde = "1.0.94"
diff --git a/install/src/command.rs b/install/src/command.rs
index a02b34a06..d5d40141b 100644
--- a/install/src/command.rs
+++ b/install/src/command.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use crate::config::Config;
+use crate::stop_process::stop_process;
 use crate::update_manifest::{SignedUpdateManifest, UpdateManifest};
 use chrono::{Local, TimeZone};
 use console::{style, Emoji};
@@ -793,8 +794,9 @@ pub fn run(
                 Ok(true) => {
                     // Update successful, kill current process so it will be restart
                     if let Some(ref mut child) = child_option {
-                        let id = child.id();
-                        println!("Killing pid {}: {:?}", id, child.kill());
+                        stop_process(child).unwrap_or_else(|err| {
+                            eprintln!("Failed to stop child: {:?}", err);
+                        });
                     }
                 }
                 Ok(false) => {} // No update available
diff --git a/install/src/lib.rs b/install/src/lib.rs
index 0fc688248..540470823 100644
--- a/install/src/lib.rs
+++ b/install/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ mod build_env;
 mod command;
 mod config;
 mod defaults;
+mod stop_process;
 mod update_manifest;
 
 // Return an error if a url cannot be parsed.
diff --git a/install/src/stop_process.rs b/install/src/stop_process.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a888f99d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install/src/stop_process.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+use std::io;
+use std::process::Child;
+
+fn kill_process(process: &mut Child) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+    if let Ok(()) = process.kill() {
+        process.wait()?;
+    } else {
+        println!("Process {} has already exited", process.id());
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+pub fn stop_process(process: &mut Child) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+    kill_process(process)
+}
+
+#[cfg(not(windows))]
+pub fn stop_process(process: &mut Child) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+    use nix::errno::Errno::{EINVAL, EPERM, ESRCH};
+    use nix::sys::signal::{kill, Signal};
+    use nix::unistd::Pid;
+    use nix::Error::Sys;
+    use std::io::ErrorKind;
+    use std::thread;
+    use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+
+    let nice_wait = Duration::from_secs(5);
+    let pid = Pid::from_raw(process.id() as i32);
+    match kill(pid, Signal::SIGINT) {
+        Ok(()) => {
+            let expire = Instant::now() + nice_wait;
+            while let Ok(None) = process.try_wait() {
+                if Instant::now() > expire {
+                    break;
+                }
+                thread::sleep(nice_wait / 10);
+            }
+            if let Ok(None) = process.try_wait() {
+                kill_process(process)?;
+            }
+        }
+        Err(Sys(EINVAL)) => {
+            println!("Invalid signal. Killing process {}", pid);
+            kill_process(process)?;
+        }
+        Err(Sys(EPERM)) => {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+                format!("Insufficient permissions to signal process {}", pid),
+            ));
+        }
+        Err(Sys(ESRCH)) => {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+                format!("Process {} does not exist", pid),
+            ));
+        }
+        Err(e) => {
+            return Err(io::Error::new(
+                ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+                format!("Unexpected error {}", e),
+            ));
+        }
+    };
+    Ok(())
+}