1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index 6a0e1016aff..fd3b4303f03 100644
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -3880,6 +3880,18 @@ class _TestSharedMemory(BaseTestCase):
 
         sms.close()
 
+        # Test creating a shared memory segment with negative size
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            sms_invalid = shared_memory.SharedMemory(create=True, size=-1)
+
+        # Test creating a shared memory segment with size 0
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            sms_invalid = shared_memory.SharedMemory(create=True, size=0)
+
+        # Test creating a shared memory segment without size argument
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            sms_invalid = shared_memory.SharedMemory(create=True)
+
     def test_shared_memory_across_processes(self):
         # bpo-40135: don't define shared memory block's name in case of
         # the failure when we run multiprocessing tests in parallel.