[issue18999] Robustness issues in multiprocessing.{get, set}_start_method

[Richard Oudkerk]

Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

> In my patched version, the private popen.get_start_method gets a kwarg 
> set_if_needed=True. popen.Popen calls that as before, so its behavior 
> should not change, while the public get_start_method sets the kwarg to 
> False.

My mistake.

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