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July 15, 2026 Score: 2 Rep: 366 Quality: Low Completeness: 50%

multiprocessing.sharedmemory assumes Python is managing the shared memory, so its resourcetracker warns when it sees a segment that wasn't unlinked by Python. Since your C program owns the lifetime (shmunlink), the warning is expected.

If you're only attaching to shared memory created by C, use:

shm = sharedmemory.SharedMemory(name=shmname, track=False)

(Python 3.13+)

On older Python versions (like 3.10), track=False isn't available, so there's no clean way to disable the warning. In that case, you can either ignore it or use a lower-level API such as posixipc/mmap instead of multiprocessing.shared_memory when C owns the shared memory