AK: Add an explicit Error factory to copy an existing error

As of now, there is a default copy constructor on Error. A future commit
will make this non-public to prevent implicit copies, so to prepare for
that, this adds a factory for the few cases where a copy is really
needed.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/AK/Error.h b/AK/Error.h
index 0993f337df..4a04c69c80 100644
--- a/AK/Error.h
+++ b/AK/Error.h
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ public:
     [[nodiscard]] static Error from_syscall(StringView syscall_name, int rc) { return Error(syscall_name, rc); }
     [[nodiscard]] static Error from_string_view(StringView string_literal) { return Error(string_literal); }
 
+    [[nodiscard]] static Error copy(Error const& error)
+    {
+        return Error(error);
+    }
+
     // NOTE: Prefer `from_string_literal` when directly typing out an error message:
     //
     //     return Error::from_string_literal("Class: Some failure");