Windows equivalent of kill -s SIGUSR1?

Hi All,

The subject pretty much says it all: Is there an equivalent on Windows
to the linux

kill -s SIGUSR1 <pid>

that gets the VM to dump its current status?

Thanks,
Alistair

Hi Henrik,

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 09:58:12PM +0000, Henrik Nergaard wrote:
Thanks for your reply.

The kill command on Unix is somewhat misnamed, it actually just sends
one of a number of signals to the process.  For some of those signals,
it is up to the process to decide how it will respond.  For the USR1
signal, the VM responds by printing out information about its internal
state, including:

- version information
- C stack backtrace & registers
- All Smalltalk process stacks
- Most recent primitives

What I'm hoping is that the same thing can be done on Windows.

My understanding is that stop-process can only be used for terminating a
process.

Cheers,
Alistair

On Monday 15 May 2017 02:47 AM, Alistair Grant wrote:
> The subject pretty much says it all: Is there an equivalent on Windows
> to the linux
>
> kill -s SIGUSR1 <pid>
>
> that gets the VM to dump its current status?

signals is unix-specific IPC. On Windows, you should be able to "create
dump file" from right-click menu on Task Manager's process list (if you
have the perms, of course!).

If you do a lot of system work on windows, sysinternals suite could be
very useful. It has many utilities for advanced operations (Procdump?)
on processes and files.

HTH .. Subbu

Hi Subbu,

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:16:45AM +0530, K K Subbu wrote:
It looks like "dump" was a poor choice of words, as I expanded on in my
reply to Henrik, it's about requesting the VM to print out its internal
information.  The VM continues to function "normally" after the request
has been processed.

Thanks,
Alistair