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Empty journal files left on disk after connection was gracefully closed
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No.  

The Write-Ahead-Logging (WAL) journal mode uses a write-ahead-log (wal) file and and index for this file (shm).  This is a fact associated with the journaling mode and has nothing whatsoever to do with how many connections/threads/processes access the database.

Multi-access and concurrency are entirely unrelated matters.