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OK, problem exists between chair & keyboard. My main loop was badly behaved. I stripped it back to the most basic stdin read loop and it terminates ok. Time to start building it up again and see where it fails.

For reference, here’s a minimal Java program that works nicely over ports, terminating when the process or BEAM terminates (including brutally killing from Windows task manager):

package com.thing;
import java.io.*;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        int ch;
        while(true) {
            ch = System.in.read();
            if (ch == -1) {break;} // This is the EOF signal in Java
            if (ch == 'q') {break;}
            if (ch == 't') {System.out.println("tasks");}
            System.out.println(" got " + ch + " - " + (char)ch);
        }
    }
}