When an unhandled exception happens, report the repr() of the function

that was used to start the thread.  This is useful to track down the
source of the problem when there is no traceback, as can happen when a
daemon thread gets to run after Python is finialized (a new kind of
event, somehow this is now possible due to changes in Py_Finalize()).

diff --git a/Modules/threadmodule.c b/Modules/threadmodule.c
index 62fd76ada340ba8d6102236c5aed920531268e9d..8b174b3af538f09b0123dc24d5970b8a39e65f6b 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/threadmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/threadmodule.c
@@ -179,20 +179,28 @@ t_bootstrap(void *boot_raw)
        PyEval_AcquireThread(tstate);
        res = PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(
                boot->func, boot->args, boot->keyw);
-       Py_DECREF(boot->func);
-       Py_DECREF(boot->args);
-       Py_XDECREF(boot->keyw);
-       PyMem_DEL(boot_raw);
        if (res == NULL) {
                if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_SystemExit))
                        PyErr_Clear();
                else {
-                       PySys_WriteStderr("Unhandled exception in thread:\n");
+                       PyObject *file;
+                       PySys_WriteStderr(
+                               "Unhandled exception in thread started by ");
+                       file = PySys_GetObject("stderr");
+                       if (file)
+                               PyFile_WriteObject(boot->func, file, 0);
+                       else
+                               PyObject_Print(boot->func, stderr, 0);
+                       PySys_WriteStderr("\n");
                        PyErr_PrintEx(0);
                }
        }
        else
                Py_DECREF(res);
+       Py_DECREF(boot->func);
+       Py_DECREF(boot->args);
+       Py_XDECREF(boot->keyw);
+       PyMem_DEL(boot_raw);
        PyThreadState_Clear(tstate);
        PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent();
        PyThread_exit_thread();