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                                            Ben Frederickson

Support profiling debug builds of Python

We're not using the ABI here - and support python going back to v2.3 =(

Cross-container --native panics: called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value', src/libcore/option.rs:378:21

We're using [libunwind-ptrace](https://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/man/libunwind-ptrace(3).html) to get the native component of the stack trace - and it doesn't look like its working across containers =( In the short term I'll add some...

crash with subprocess not in container

Did the output get written successfully when the profiled process finished? Like is the problem that when the process exited py-spy returned an error on exit rather than success -...

crash with subprocess not in container

> After further exploration, I realized the --nonblocking option completely solves the Error: No child process (os error 10) issue, so it could be related to the interaction between py-spy...

Capturing method values for highly abstracted programs

There is some code to read in the ```__dict__``` from an object in the code that does the threadname lookup (getting the dictoffset from the type of the thread object,...

OpenBSD support

Py-spy doesn't work on OpenBSD yet =( We only have support for FreeBSD/Linux/MacOS and Windows right now. We will need to add some OS specific code for reading information from...

Include libpython symbols in profile info

Which pythons symbols are you interested in? We already include symbols from a bunch of builtin python modules https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/blob/25db5bc953d192a98cf485ba0cd01443f7048b1e/src/native_stack_trace.rs#L161-L173 . For instance profling this https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/blob/25db5bc953d192a98cf485ba0cd01443f7048b1e/tests/scripts/longsleep.py#L1-L9 with the native flags shows...