diff --git a/util/process/ProcessImpl.scala b/util/process/ProcessImpl.scala
index 69191d054..cffe9f44b 100644
--- a/util/process/ProcessImpl.scala
+++ b/util/process/ProcessImpl.scala
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ object BasicIO
 	final val BufferSize = 8192
 	final val Newline = System.getProperty("line.separator")
 
+	def closeProcessStreams(p: JProcess): Unit =
+		Seq(p.getOutputStream, p.getInputStream, p.getErrorStream) foreach { s =>
+			if(s ne null) close(s)
+		}
+
 	def close(c: java.io.Closeable) = try { c.close() } catch { case _: java.io.IOException => () }
 	def processFully(buffer: Appendable): InputStream => Unit = processFully(appendLine(buffer))
 	def processFully(processLine: String => Unit): InputStream => Unit =
@@ -364,8 +369,6 @@ private[sbt] class DummyProcessBuilder(override val toString: String, exitValue
 	override def run(io: ProcessIO): Process = new DummyProcess(exitValue)
 	override def canPipeTo = true
 }
-/** A thin wrapper around a java.lang.Process.  `ioThreads` are the Threads created to do I/O.
-* The implementation of `exitValue` waits until these threads die before returning. */
 private class DummyProcess(action: => Int) extends Process
 {
 	private[this] val exitCode = Future(action)
@@ -399,18 +402,23 @@ private[sbt] class SimpleProcessBuilder(p: JProcessBuilder) extends AbstractProc
 * returning. */
 private class SimpleProcess(p: JProcess, inputThread: Thread, outputThreads: List[Thread]) extends Process
 {
-	override def exitValue() =
+	override def exitValue(): Int =
 	{
-		try { p.waitFor() }// wait for the process to terminate
-		finally { inputThread.interrupt() } // we interrupt the input thread to notify it that it can terminate
-		outputThreads.foreach(_.join()) // this ensures that all output is complete before returning (waitFor does not ensure this)
+		andCleanup { p.waitFor() }// wait for the process to terminate
 		p.exitValue()
 	}
 	override def destroy() =
-	{
-		try { p.destroy() }
-		finally { inputThread.interrupt() }
-	}
+		andCleanup { p.destroy() }
+
+	private[this] def andCleanup[T](action: => Unit): Unit =
+		try
+		{
+			try { action }
+			finally { inputThread.interrupt() } // we interrupt the input thread to notify it that it can terminate
+			outputThreads.foreach(_.join()) // this ensures that all output is complete before returning (waitFor does not ensure this)
+		}
+		finally
+			BasicIO.closeProcessStreams(p)
 }
 
 private class FileOutput(file: File, append: Boolean) extends OutputStreamBuilder(new FileOutputStream(file, append), file.getAbsolutePath)