Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux
where their capabilities intersect. Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ee9df99..c151067 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@
Windows
+- os.waitpid() is now implemented for Windows, and can be used to block
+ until a specified process exits. This is similar to, but not exactly
+ the same as, os.waitpid() on POSIX systems. If you're waiting for
+ a specific process whose pid was obtained from one of the spawn()
+ functions, the same Python os.waitpid() code works across platforms.
+ See the docs for details.
+
- New tempfile.TemporaryFile implementation for Windows: this doesn't
need a TemproraryFileWrapper wrapper anymore, and should be immune
to a nasty problem: before 2.3, if you got a temp file on Windows, it