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Make launching a process without throwing an exception more obvious in Boost.Process V2

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start at the boost::process::v2::process constructors and compare them with the non-throwing constructor overloads provided by Boost.Process v1. Check how default_process_launcher accepts and forwards boost::system::error_code, then verify that the example launches without throwing and reports errors through ec.

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Description

Boost.Process generally offers throwing and non-throwing overloads.

The constructor of boost::process::v2::process is missing an overload that takes an error_code instance. The following code does not compile:

boost::system::error_code ec;
boost::process::v2::process process{ctx, ec, "/usr/bin/cp", {"source.txt", "target.txt"}};

Looks like these constructors are simply missing and could easily forward ec to default_process_launcher? v1 offered such constructor overloads.

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