bpo-39672: shelve sigsegv crash #18655
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https://bugs.python.org/issue39672
When the
close
method is not called while working with theshelve
module and the program exits, the garbage collector calls the__delete__
method.This method attempts to synchronize entries between the cache and disk. But because the garbage collector frees up resources, undefined behavior of the
close
method appears.