Subject: Re: bug#12829: 24.3.50; emacs_abort () called from w32proc.c:1128

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:44:36 -0800

On 11/10/2012 12:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Paul, are there other supported platforms that use 'wait' here?

No, waitpid is required by POSIX.1-1988 and has
been present on all GNUish and POSIXish platform
versions released since ~1990.  Nowadays we can
safely assume that waitpid is on every supported
platform other than bare Microsoft platforms
such as MSVC and mingw.