multiprocessing Pool maxtasksperchild=0 raises exception with endless traceback

[jeyekomon]

BPO	39477
Nosy	@pitrou, @applio

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[jeyekomon]

The following code is expected to fail:

import multiprocessing

def f(x):
	return x

if __name__ == '__main__':
	with multiprocessing.Pool(2, maxtasksperchild=0) as pool:
		pool.map(f, range(3))

since it uses a wrong value of the 'maxtasksperchild' parameter. I expect it to raise a ValueError but instead it starts to fill the stderr with practically endless traceback:

Process ForkPoolWorker-2:
Process ForkPoolWorker-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/process.py", line 258, in _bootstrap
 self.run()
 File "/usr/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/process.py", line 93, in run
 self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 95, in worker
 assert maxtasks is None or (type(maxtasks) == int and maxtasks > 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
AssertionError
 File "/usr/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/process.py", line 258, in _bootstrap
 self.run()
 File "/usr/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/process.py", line 93, in run
 self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 95, in worker
 assert maxtasks is None or (type(maxtasks) == int and maxtasks > 0)
AssertionError
Process ForkPoolWorker-4:
Process ForkPoolWorker-3:
...

I don't think this is expected behavior.
Tested with Python 3.6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04.3.