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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
