bt in traces

[Mike Hearn]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 19:49, Eric Pouech wrote:
> this would be as intrusive as using the debugger (I assume that the 
> running process would be in charge of printing the backtrace, or an 
> external process - like a debugger - would print the backtrace, while 
> the program is stopped (or after copying the stack for instrospection, 
> which dbghelp doesn't provide btw))

Why would it be intrusive? Can't you just take a snapshot of the stack
and walk it internally? That must be what StackWalk does, right, as apps
often try and grab their own backtraces....