-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/2010 02:37 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Am 05.10.2010 14:15, schrieb David Sveningsson: >> Hi, I am running a process using subprocess and detect if the process >> crashes using .returncode. I would like to force coredumps being created >> regardless of the system settings, eg run "ulimit -c unlimited" in the >> childprocess. >> >> I've had no luck using preexec_fn and os.system, it just made no >> difference. I could probably add a thin wrapper script but I'm not very >> fond of that idea. >> >> Is there some easy way to force the childprocess to create a coredump if >> it crashes? > > This code snippet enables core dumps for the current Python process. It > should also enable it for child processes. > > import resource > resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CORE, (-1, -1)) > > Christian >
Thanks, it works perfect if I run in in preexec_fn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyrHgIACgkQ6pa1H/H5pqWUzwCeNWW6CAjdjir40NXMJyMh8k7F zeEAoKa9A5jdBd4CI6UTmUDKeD+QAPvO =WZOy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
