Feature #21704
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Expose rb_process_status_new to C extensions
Description
A fiber scheduler implementation with a hook for #process_wait needs to return a Process::Status object, but currently it is not possible for a C extension to directly create an instance of Process::Status. The technique currently used in various fiber scheduler implementations is to use pidfd_open, poll for fd readiness, then call Process::Status.wait, which creates the instance.
On recent Linux kernels (6.7 or newer), io_uring_prep_waitid can be used to directly wait for process termination, which provides us with the pid and status of the terminated child process, but there's no way to directly create an instance of Process::Status, required for implementing the #process_wait hook.
Exposing the internal rb_process_status_new function would allow such an implementation. Using io_uring_prep_waitid would also lead to better compatibility of fiber schedulers with calls to Process.wait(0) or Process.wait(-1), as those cannot be done using pidfd_open.
The associated PR is here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/15213
An working fiber scheduler implementation of process_wait using io_uring_prep_waitid has been submitted here: https://github.com/socketry/io-event/pull/154
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