Did you try using the signal module? If not, a basic example is here <http://docs.python.org/lib/node546.html> which may need to be extended.
/Jean Brouwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I'm currently having some issues with a process getting deadlocked. The > problem is that the only way I can seem to find information about where > it deadlocks is by making a wild guess, insert a pdb.set_trace() before > this point, and then step until it locks up, hoping that I've guessed > right. > > The frustrating part is that most of the time my guesses are wrong. > > It would be really nice if I could send the python process some signal > which would cause it to print the current stacktrace and exit > immediately. That way I would quickly be able to pinpoint where in the > code the deadlock happens. Java has a somewhat similar feature where > you can send a running VM process a SIGQUIT, to which it will respond > by dumping all current threads and lots of other information on stdout. > > Is this possible somehow? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
