[3.14] gh-134381: Fix RuntimeError when starting not-yet started Thread after fork (gh-134514) (gh-134596)

(cherry picked from commit 9a2346df861f26d5f8d054ad2f9c37134dee3822)

Co-authored-by: Jiucheng(Oliver) <git.jiucheng@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index 8cc4e46..63f522f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -6832,6 +6832,28 @@ class MiscTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual("332833500", out.decode('utf-8').strip())
         self.assertFalse(err, msg=err.decode('utf-8'))
 
+    def test_forked_thread_not_started(self):
+        # gh-134381: Ensure that a thread that has not been started yet in
+        # the parent process can be started within a forked child process.
+
+        if multiprocessing.get_start_method() != "fork":
+            self.skipTest("fork specific test")
+
+        q = multiprocessing.Queue()
+        t = threading.Thread(target=lambda: q.put("done"), daemon=True)
+
+        def child():
+            t.start()
+            t.join()
+
+        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=child)
+        p.start()
+        p.join(support.SHORT_TIMEOUT)
+
+        self.assertEqual(p.exitcode, 0)
+        self.assertEqual(q.get_nowait(), "done")
+        close_queue(q)
+
 
 #
 # Mixins