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diff --git a/man/mono.1 b/man/mono.1 index c828cc1a709..89a8c53fc73 100644 --- a/man/mono.1 +++ b/man/mono.1 @@ -493,10 +493,20 @@ It is possible to obtain a stack trace of all the active threads in Mono by sending the QUIT signal to Mono, you can do this from the command line, like this: .nf + kill -QUIT pid + .fi Where pid is the Process ID of the Mono process you want to examine. -The process will continue running afterwards. +The process will continue running afterwards, but its state is not +guaranteed. +.PP +.B Important: +this is a last-resort mechanism for debugging applications and should +not be used to monitor or probe a production application. The +integrity of the runtime after sending this signal is not guaranteed +and the application might crash or terminate at any given point +afterwards. .PP You can use the MONO_LOG_LEVEL and MONO_LOG_MASK environment variables to get verbose debugging output about the execution of your |