diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index f12e8bbbd..1027e93df 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -122,6 +122,48 @@ __all__ = [
     "ALWAYS_EQ", "LARGEST", "SMALLEST"
     ]
 
+# Timeout in seconds for tests using a network server listening on the network
+# local loopback interface like 127.0.0.1.
+#
+# The timeout is long enough to prevent test failure: it takes into account
+# that the client and the server can run in different threads or even different
+# processes.
+#
+# The timeout should be long enough for connect(), recv() and send() methods
+# of socket.socket.
+LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT = 5.0
+if sys.platform == 'win32' and ' 32 bit (ARM)' in sys.version:
+    # bpo-37553: test_socket.SendfileUsingSendTest is taking longer than 2
+    # seconds on Windows ARM32 buildbot
+    LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT = 10
+elif sys.platform == 'vxworks':
+    LOOPBACK_TIMEOUT = 10
+
+# Timeout in seconds for network requests going to the internet. The timeout is
+# short enough to prevent a test to wait for too long if the internet request
+# is blocked for whatever reason.
+#
+# Usually, a timeout using INTERNET_TIMEOUT should not mark a test as failed,
+# but skip the test instead: see transient_internet().
+INTERNET_TIMEOUT = 60.0
+
+# Timeout in seconds to mark a test as failed if the test takes "too long".
+#
+# The timeout value depends on the regrtest --timeout command line option.
+#
+# If a test using SHORT_TIMEOUT starts to fail randomly on slow buildbots, use
+# LONG_TIMEOUT instead.
+SHORT_TIMEOUT = 30.0
+
+# Timeout in seconds to detect when a test hangs.
+#
+# It is long enough to reduce the risk of test failure on the slowest Python
+# buildbots. It should not be used to mark a test as failed if the test takes
+# "too long". The timeout value depends on the regrtest --timeout command line
+# option.
+LONG_TIMEOUT = 5 * 60.0
+
+
 class Error(Exception):
     """Base class for regression test exceptions."""
 
@@ -3378,3 +3420,54 @@ class catch_threading_exception:
         del self.exc_value
         del self.exc_traceback
         del self.thread
+
+
+def wait_process(pid, *, exitcode, timeout=None):
+    """
+    Wait until process pid completes and check that the process exit code is
+    exitcode.
+    Raise an AssertionError if the process exit code is not equal to exitcode.
+    If the process runs longer than timeout seconds (SHORT_TIMEOUT by default),
+    kill the process (if signal.SIGKILL is available) and raise an
+    AssertionError. The timeout feature is not available on Windows.
+    """
+    if os.name != "nt":
+        import signal
+
+        if timeout is None:
+            timeout = SHORT_TIMEOUT
+        t0 = time.monotonic()
+        sleep = 0.001
+        max_sleep = 0.1
+        while True:
+            pid2, status = os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG)
+            if pid2 != 0:
+                break
+            # process is still running
+
+            dt = time.monotonic() - t0
+            if dt > SHORT_TIMEOUT:
+                try:
+                    os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
+                    os.waitpid(pid, 0)
+                except OSError:
+                    # Ignore errors like ChildProcessError or PermissionError
+                    pass
+
+                raise AssertionError(f"process {pid} is still running "
+                                     f"after {dt:.1f} seconds")
+
+            sleep = min(sleep * 2, max_sleep)
+            time.sleep(sleep)
+    else:
+        # Windows implementation
+        pid2, status = os.waitpid(pid, 0)
+
+    exitcode2 = os.waitstatus_to_exitcode(status)
+    if exitcode2 != exitcode:
+        raise AssertionError(f"process {pid} exited with code {exitcode2}, "
+                             f"but exit code {exitcode} is expected")
+
+    # sanity check: it should not fail in practice
+    if pid2 != pid:
+        raise AssertionError(f"pid {pid2} != pid {pid}")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index 3dfce9b7d..e13fe4304 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -1538,8 +1538,6 @@ class _PosixSpawnMixin:
         # test_close_file() to fail.
         return (sys.executable, '-I', '-S', *args)
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_returns_pid(self):
         pidfile = support.TESTFN
         self.addCleanup(support.unlink, pidfile)
@@ -1586,8 +1584,6 @@ class _PosixSpawnMixin:
         with open(envfile) as f:
             self.assertEqual(f.read(), 'bar')
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_none_file_actions(self):
         pid = self.spawn_func(
             self.NOOP_PROGRAM[0],
@@ -1597,8 +1593,6 @@ class _PosixSpawnMixin:
         )
         support.wait_process(pid, exitcode=0)
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_empty_file_actions(self):
         pid = self.spawn_func(
             self.NOOP_PROGRAM[0],
@@ -1795,8 +1789,6 @@ class _PosixSpawnMixin:
         )
         support.wait_process(pid, exitcode=0)
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_multiple_file_actions(self):
         file_actions = [
             (os.POSIX_SPAWN_OPEN, 3, os.path.realpath(__file__), os.O_RDONLY, 0),
@@ -1838,8 +1830,6 @@ class _PosixSpawnMixin:
                                            3, __file__ + '\0',
                                            os.O_RDONLY, 0)])
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_open_file(self):
         outfile = support.TESTFN
         self.addCleanup(support.unlink, outfile)
@@ -1860,7 +1850,7 @@ class _PosixSpawnMixin:
         with open(outfile) as f:
             self.assertEqual(f.read(), 'hello')
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
+    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory (os error 2): '@test_55144_tmp' -> 'None'
     @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_close_file(self):
         closefile = support.TESTFN
@@ -1881,8 +1871,6 @@ class _PosixSpawnMixin:
         with open(closefile) as f:
             self.assertEqual(f.read(), 'is closed %d' % errno.EBADF)
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_dup2(self):
         dupfile = support.TESTFN
         self.addCleanup(support.unlink, dupfile)
@@ -1911,8 +1899,6 @@ class TestPosixSpawn(unittest.TestCase, _PosixSpawnMixin):
 class TestPosixSpawnP(unittest.TestCase, _PosixSpawnMixin):
     spawn_func = getattr(posix, 'posix_spawnp', None)
 
-    # TODO: RUSTPYTHON: AttributeError: module 'test.support' has no attribute 'wait_process'
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     @support.skip_unless_symlink
     def test_posix_spawnp(self):
         # Use a symlink to create a program in its own temporary directory
diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs
index 63bddbcf0..6e591d3dc 100644
--- a/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs
+++ b/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs
@@ -1668,6 +1668,31 @@ pub(super) mod _os {
         Ok((loadavg[0], loadavg[1], loadavg[2]))
     }
 
+    #[cfg(any(unix, windows))]
+    #[pyfunction]
+    fn waitstatus_to_exitcode(status: i32, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<i32> {
+        let status = u32::try_from(status)
+            .map_err(|_| vm.new_value_error(format!("invalid WEXITSTATUS: {}", status)))?;
+
+        cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+            if #[cfg(not(windows))] {
+                let status = status as libc::c_int;
+                if libc::WIFEXITED(status) {
+                    return Ok(libc::WEXITSTATUS(status));
+                }
+
+                if libc::WIFSIGNALED(status) {
+                    return Ok(-libc::WTERMSIG(status));
+                }
+
+                Err(vm.new_value_error(format!("Invalid wait status: {}", status)))
+            } else {
+                i32::try_from(status.rotate_right(8))
+                    .map_err(|_| vm.new_value_error(format!("invalid wait status: {}", status)))
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     #[pyattr]
     #[pyclass(module = "os", name = "terminal_size")]
     #[derive(PyStructSequence)]