[Zope-dev] Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: BTrees strangeness (was Zope 2.X BIG Session problems - blocker - our site dies - need help of experience Zope developer, please)

[Casey Duncan]

On Mon, 17 May 2004 19:00:16 +0200
Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:

> Chris McDonough wrote at 2004-5-15 13:04 -0400:
> > ...
> >Dieter, do you think you can read this patch and give a thumbs up or
> >down on it?
> 
> The patch looks good.
> 
> >On a different subject, the publisher probably shouldn't pass around
> >traceback objects (e.g. when it calls into err_hook) as Tres believes
> >that may be a memory leak waiting to happen.
> 
> The traceback is vital for error analysis.
> 
> It may not be necessary that ZPublisher touches the traceback
> but we will definitely need access to it during error handling.

Perhaps the traceback can be passed as a string to avoid leaks?
Furthermore why can't the traceback be retrieved later from
sys.exc_info()?

-Casey