Sorry about the delay,

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:08:41 +0000
Victor Orlikowski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> So - in our controller application here at Duke, we’ve added enabled the use 
> of eventlet.backdoor to help us debug greenlet issues.
> 
> It’s been a real help - but it concerns me due to:
> 1) Effectively being a security vulnerability
> 2) Being disabled by fellow administrators *because* of being a security 
> vulnerability (and thereby being unavailable for debugging issues when they 
> happen).
> 
> It seems that the OpenStack folks have had this same concern, and have 
> proposed the following solution:
> 
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GuruMeditationReport
> 
> Extending the above, I’d like to be able to (for example) get a “thread dump” 
> of the greenlets in a running instance of Ryu; that’s what I did for 
> debugging some of the issues I’ve been submitting patches for, using the 
> following bits of code as examples:
> 
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/_modules/ironic/openstack/common/eventlet_backdoor.html
> 
> Would there be overall interest in my submitting a patch to provide a signal 
> handler for, say, SIGQUIT (a la Java) or SIGUSR1 to provide an error report 
> in a user-configurable location? It seems overdue, for live debugging and 
> error reporting by end users.

Sounds reasonable to me.

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