2011/3/31 Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com>: > -----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.
Furthermore, let's hope we don't have to use it much! :) -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
