How about a slight refactoring to make it more obvious where to look for
the startup information?

Please find attached a proposed patch.  This is just a quick proof of
concept; perhaps there is more startup-related information which could
be moved to the new variable.

(Cc:ing Ilya as I don't know whether he subscribes to this bug report.)

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