Re: [sabayon] errors hang gamin

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:45:43PM -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> I've noticed that if an error occurs in python code that is called from
> a gamin callback instead of it printing a stack trace gamin seems to
> hang and hence sabayon seems to hang. If I quit the sabayon process then
> a flood of stack trace information comes out showing that something went
> wrong in a gamin callback.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this so the process does not hang and instead just
> prints the stack trace (just like normal python)?

  Hum, I will need to look at this. The problem is exception handling
when you get 

    Python -- calls --->  C code -- calls ---> Python callback

and the callback generate an exception. I remember getting this annoying
case with libxml2, I'm not sure I had a generic solution.

Daniel

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