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No, I don't think this is actually fixed in any version of Python at the
moment. The title may be a bit misleading, because all the versions now
store the result of fork in a pid_t and return it as a PyLong. However,
posix_waitpid is still pulling pid's as a PyInt. Changing this to
PyLong would probably work for our purposes, but I guess the hangup was
that in reality pid_t is supposed to be an opaque datatype and
implementing it in CPython is non-trivial and has little benefit.
Perhaps we close this as won't fix or I can create a patch to at least
give a hack for 64-bit pid's but still treated as a long.