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gh-140814: Fix freeze_support() setting start method as side effect (GH-144608)

freeze_support() called get_start_method() without allow_none=True,
which locked in the default start method context. This caused a
subsequent set_start_method() call to raise "context has already been
set". Use allow_none=True and accept None as a matching value, since
spawn.freeze_support() independently detects spawned child processes.

Test that freeze_support() does not lock in the default start method,
which would prevent a subsequent set_start_method() call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
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Gregory P. Smith committed
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Parent: 40095d5
Committed by GitHub <noreply@github.com> on 3/16/2026, 5:50:19 AM