https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17250
--- Comment #4 from Vladimir Panteleev <dlang-bugzi...@thecybershadow.net> --- (In reply to Jon Degenhardt from comment #1) > The problem is that there is no method available to determine if pid is null > prior to call the pid() method. Why not: if (pipes !is ProcessPipes.init) (In reply to RazvanN from comment #2) > I think the solution here is to remove the assert and expect the user to > check if the result of pid is null. I think that's OK too, though it has the small downside that null dereferencing bugs are harder to diagnose on non-Windows systems. We could also add an implicit conversion to bool. --
