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Run pystack if the monitored process crashes

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Compare the existing pytest-pystack behavior with pytest-faulthandler to understand how process crashes are detected and how output is captured. Define the expected pystack invocation and whether variables are included; done means a crash produces both C++ and Python stack information, with the optional variable behavior documented or tested.

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Description

Similar to pytest-faulthandler, run pystack if the process crashes but including both C++ and Python code (and optionally variables).

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Python
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