Here's how I changed poll() in multiprocessing/forking.py:

        def poll(self, flag=os.WNOHANG):
            if self.returncode is None:
                try:
                    pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, flag)
                except OSError, e:
                    if e.errno == 10:
                        return self.returncode
                    else:
                        raise
                if pid == self.pid:
                    if os.WIFSIGNALED(sts):
                        self.returncode = -os.WTERMSIG(sts)
                    else:
                        assert os.WIFEXITED(sts)
                        self.returncode = os.WEXITSTATUS(sts)
            return self.returncode