Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Expose os.waitid on macOS as well.

As mentioned in #55021 the waitid(2) function is exposed in posixmodule.c, but that code explicitly hides the function on macOS without a clear reason. And in any case, the reason to exclude the function was made for an OS version that we no longer support (10.8 or earlier).

It is better to just expose the function and document issues when they come up (and file issues with Apple as needed).

Filing this a "feature" because this is IMHO not something we can back port to stable releases.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

#55021

Linked PRs

• gh-113536: Expose os.waitid on macOS #113542