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The Leak That Won't Die: How We Broke Python's tempfile

Production crashes always happen suddenly. This time, the alarm was raised by the core C++ SDK developers. Their scheduled nightly build failed on the CI runner with a classic diagnosis: No space left…

  • Leak of temporary directories in /tmp folder caused production crash
  • Developers replaced mkdtemp() with TemporaryDirectory, but relied on GC
  • Strict context managers and janitor mechanism fixed the issue

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