From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2009-08-07T00:18:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Any tool for examine ruby's thread?

On 8/6/09, femto Zheng <femtowin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes,I've found the Thread.list fulfills my needs,Thanks.
> do you have any means for examning every thread's stacktrace?

There does not seem to be a way to get the backtrace of another thread
-- even from within the debugger. This is a shame, because as you say
it's useful for debugging. There ought to be a Thread#caller or
Thread#backtrace method, which works like #caller but on another
thread.

I would have thought that you'd at least be able to use the 'thread
switch' command in the debugger, and then 'where' once you're in that
thread to see its backtrace, but that doesn't seem to work either.

> by the way, reply at the top is very easy because I'm using gmail,
> so I can collapse other's reply very easily,
> :)

Don't let me get started on the evils of bottom-quoting. Just let me
note that it's not the approved style on this list.