-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/2011 09:54 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I pushed my faulthandler module into the default branch (Python 3.3). > Since one week, I fixed a lot of bugs (platform issues), improved the > tests and Antoine wrote a new implementation of dump_backtraces_later() > using a thread (instead of SIGALRM+alarm()). It should now work on all > platforms (but register() is not available on Windows). > > Use "python -X faulthandler" or "PYTHONFAULTHANDLER=1 python" to install > the fault handler at startup (catch segfaults and other fatal errors). > > You can also register a signal (e.g. SIGUSR1) to dump the traceback on > this signal. > > The latest added feature is to be able to the dump the traceback after a > timeout and exit the process: we may use it on regrtest.py to learn more > about test_multiprocess and test_threadsignals hangs. Issue #11393 has a > patch implementing this issue: add --timeout option to regrtest.py. You > can also just dump the traceback after the timeout without exiting. > > Py_FatalError() always print the Python traceback (except if an > exception was raised: print the exception with its traceback). > > For more information, read the doc: > http://docs.python.org/dev/library/faulthandler.html > > Please tell me if you have any issue related to faulthandler. > > -- > > If you get "undefined reference to `_PyFaulthandler_Init'" compiler > error, copy Modules/Setup.dist to Modules/Setup (cp Modules/Setup.dist > Modules/Setup). > > test_faulthandler hangs on AMD64 Gentoo Wide 3.x and AMD64 OpenIndiana > 3.x. It looks to be related to the stack overflow test (the stack is > maybe not limited on these buildbots?). I have a patch, but I cannot > test it because these buildbots are dead (oops, sorry!). > > Most buildbots are red because a regression in test_logging (since 2 > days): I disabled temporary the test (issue #11557), I hope that the > situation will be better in a few hours. > > Thank you Antoine for your reviews!
Thanks very much for you hard work on this cool new feature. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2Ud/gACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6BVACgo822OajfnxbVQInroX8q5L7B wX0AoMpEJLNk0ffEBJs+C2CDXiaIz+yf =rf2C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
