std.process: spawnProcess

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 02:38 +0000, Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> 
[…]
> You can wrap in a Process struct or class and take advantage of 
> the destructor to do that. Assuming you write standard GC-ed code 
> the destructor should be called at the end or if you free 
> manually the resources.

But as with other GC systems, there is no guarantee that the destructor will
ever be called, or perhaps there is something here that gets round that?

> example API:
> 
> struct SpawnedProcess
> {
> private:
>      Pid pid;
> public:
>      this();
>      void execute();
>      void terminate();
>      bool running();
>      ~this(){ if (running) terminate();}
> }

struct or class? Given it is of necessity a heap located value I'd have used
class, but is struct better here? 

> P.S: i just see that in my own Process class i forgot to do that.
-- 
Russel.
===========================================
Dr Russel Winder      t: +44 20 7585 2200
41 Buckmaster Road    m: +44 7770 465 077
London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d-learn/attachments/20180908/f2a99ad5/attachment-0001.sig>