New submission from Stefan Ring: After a fork, the list of thread states contains all the threads from before. It is especially unfortunate that, at least for me, it usually happens that threads created in the forked process reuse the same thread ids, and sys._current_frames will then return wrong stack frames for existing threads because the old entries occur towards the tail of the linked list and overwrite the earlier, correct ones, in _PyThread_CurrentFrames.
The attached patch is certainly not the most complete solution, but it solves my problem. With Python 2.7.3 I get: Exception in thread Thread-6: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "test-fork-frames.py", line 24, in do_verify assert frame_from_sys is real_frame AssertionError With my patch applied, it passes silently. I can reproduce this on CentOS 6.3 x86_64 as well as Fedora 18 x86_64. ---------- components: Interpreter Core files: current-frames-cleanup.patch keywords: patch messages: 181045 nosy: Ringding priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: sys._current_frames() reports too many/wrong stack frames type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28924/current-frames-cleanup.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17094> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com