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  r78777 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 00:49:03 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 4 lines

  Backport the Popen.poll() protection from subprocess to multiprocessing. See #1731717.
  It should fix transient failures on test_multiprocessing.
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  r78787 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 08:21:16 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Don't fail on a debug() statement, if the worker PID is (still) None.
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  r78790 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 12:01:39 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  On finalize, don't try to join not started process.
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diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
index 6271b86..d2b8dd1 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/pool.py
@@ -448,12 +448,10 @@
         if pool and hasattr(pool[0], 'terminate'):
             debug('joining pool workers')
             for p in pool:
-                p.join()
-            for w in pool:
-                if w.exitcode is None:
+                if p.is_alive():
                     # worker has not yet exited
-                    debug('cleaning up worker %d' % w.pid)
-                    w.join()
+                    debug('cleaning up worker %d' % p.pid)
+                    p.join()
 
 #
 # Class whose instances are returned by `Pool.apply_async()`