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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-07-13 23:39:53 +0200
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-07-13 23:39:53 +0200
commit617becae4ff6683c09c1b658bc084eff287c78d1 (patch)
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downloadcpython-617becae4ff6683c09c1b658bc084eff287c78d1.tar.gz
Issue #12550: Add chain optional argument to faulthandler.register()
Call the previous signal handler if chain is True.
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@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ Dump the tracebacks after a timeout
Dump the traceback on a user signal
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-.. function:: register(signum, file=sys.stderr, all_threads=True)
+.. function:: register(signum, file=sys.stderr, all_threads=True, chain=False)
Register a user signal: install a handler for the *signum* signal to dump
the traceback of all threads, or of the current thread if *all_threads* is
- ``False``, into *file*.
+ ``False``, into *file*. Call the previous handler if chain is ``True``.
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