boostorg / boostorg/process

Trying to run a non-existing file in Linux results in a zombie process

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As can be seen in https://godbolt.org/z/4T7TMMTov, calling the process constructor on Linux (have not checked different launchers) asking it to execute a non-existing file results on a exception being thrown and the forked process never being reaped.

For comparison, https://godbolt.org/z/W94K31sGW uses an existing file and it works fine.

Those use Boost 1.86 since that's the latest available in Godbolt today, but I have reproduced the same issue on 1.87.

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