Summary:
- The PR changes ordinary unmanaged gateway restarts to return the existing in-process fallback instead of detached-spawning a replacement child, with focused tests, docs wording, and a changelog entry.
- Reproducibility: yes. at source level: current main and v2026.5.12 detach-spawn unmanaged ordinary restarts, ... e PR body also supplies after-fix terminal proof that the patched helper returns disabled without spawning.
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Review: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/83138#issuecomment-4471071848
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