Core: Add a reaper that will asynchronously clean up QProcesses

Change-Id: Ic24dde261eac775d1a5854b8dbcbfeb002d0f729
Reviewed-by: Eike Ziller <eike.ziller@qt.io>

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/plugins/coreplugin/reaper.h b/src/plugins/coreplugin/reaper.h
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+/****************************************************************************
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+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "core_global.h"
+
+QT_FORWARD_DECLARE_CLASS(QProcess);
+
+namespace Core {
+namespace Reaper {
+
+CORE_EXPORT void reap(QProcess *p, int timeoutMs = 500);
+
+} // namespace Reaper
+} // namespace Core