I have perl scripts that are deployed across many users in our group. The scripts have very strict error checking (any perl warning or error will cause an abort). Because the scripts are run by many different users, we occasionally have issues that are not reproducible by the developers due to interactions with the user's environment (running in Linux).

The error handler unwinds the stack (much like Carp), sends an email and then exists.

When our error-handler is triggered, I would like to be able to do the equivalent of generating a core-file that I could reload in the perl debugger at a later time to investigate variables, and debug exactly what is going on. I don't think that actually generating a core file wouldn't help, as bringing it up in gdb would not give me any reasonable way of debugging the variables as far as I know

Is there any mechanism that could achieve this? It would probably be fine to dump all variables/hashes/arrays in memory to a file, but as we have lots of modules, and many of them have local (my) variables, I am not aware of any mechanism to achieve that either.

In reply to Equivalent of a core-dump to restart perl script in debugger by Anonymous Monk

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