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Activating the thread dump feature

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert O'Callahan)
Sat Sep 30 19:42:29 1995

Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 17:31:45 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: "Robert O'Callahan" <roc+@cs.cmu.edu>

Jonathan Payne wrote:
>Also, are you running on NT or solaris?  If on solaris, you can type
>^\ (the QUIT character) and it will give you a stack trace on all the
>active threads.  You can see (1) if your thread is still running, and
>(2) if so, where it is.

You can do this on NT too, if your Java program has a console window: just
double-click on the top-left menu box to close it, and it does the thread
dump instead.

If this is documented anywhere, I've never seen it.

Rob
[Robert O'Callahan (roc+@cs.cmu.edu) 2nd year CMU SCS PhD
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