doc: add mention of debug.SetTraceback

Change-Id: I59829029769ae08c6c54208a1e38a0794868c5db
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18045
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>

diff --git a/doc/go1.6.html b/doc/go1.6.html
index 46cbe31ee8e876d5963dd02765eccf485519a7c2..69a7fab27b4618e322ab63dd687a309f06b68c98 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/go1.6.html
+++ b/doc/go1.6.html
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
 <p>
 The release adds new ports to <a href="#ports">Linux on 64-bit MIPS and Android on 32-bit x86</a>;
 defined and enforced <a href="#cgo">rules for sharing Go pointers with C</a>;
-transparent, automatic <a href="#http2">support for HTTP/2</a>;
+transparent, automatic <a href="#http">support for HTTP/2</a>;
 and a new mechanism for <a href="#template">template reuse</a>.
 </p>
 
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ to implementations of the
 
 <h2 id="library">Core library</h2>
 
-<h3 id="http2">HTTP/2</h3>
+<h3 id="http">HTTP</h3>
 
 <p>
 Go 1.6 adds transparent support in the
@@ -289,6 +289,18 @@ functions.
 
 <h3 id="runtime">Runtime</h3>
 
+<p>
+The runtime has added lightweight, best-effort detection of concurrent misuse of maps.
+As always, if one goroutine is writing to a map, no other goroutine should be
+reading or writing the map concurrently.
+If the runtime detects this condition, it prints a diagnosis and crashes the program.
+The best way to find out more about the problem is to run the program
+under the
+<a href="https://blog.golang.org/race-detector">race detector</a>,
+which will more reliably identify the race
+and give more detail.
+</p>
+
 <p>
 For program-ending panics, the runtime now by default
 prints only the stack of the running goroutine,
@@ -298,20 +310,19 @@ so omitting the others significantly reduces irrelevant output
 in a crash message.
 To see the stacks from all goroutines in crash messages, set the environment variable
 <code>GOTRACEBACK</code> to <code>all</code>
-and rerun the program.
+or call
+<a href="/pkg/runtime/debug/#SetTraceback"><code>debug.SetTraceback</code></a>
+before the crash, and rerun the program.
 See the <a href="/pkg/runtime/#hdr-Environment_Variables">runtime documentation</a> for details.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-The runtime has added lightweight, best-effort detection of concurrent misuse of maps.
-As always, if one goroutine is writing to a map, no other goroutine should be
-reading or writing the map concurrently.
-If the runtime detects this condition, it prints a diagnosis and crashes the program.
-The best way to find out more about the problem is to run the program
-under the
-<a href="https://blog.golang.org/race-detector">race detector</a>,
-which will more reliably identify the race
-and give more detail.
+<em>Updating</em>:
+Uncaught panics intended to dump the state of the entire program,
+such as when a timeout is detected or when explicitly handling a received signal,
+should now call <code>debug.SetTraceback("all")</code> before panicking.
+Searching for uses of
+<a href="/pkg/os/signal/#Notify"><code>signal.Notify</code></a> may help identify such code.
 </p>
 
 <h3 id="reflect">Reflect</h3>
@@ -686,7 +697,7 @@ and
 
 <li>
 Also in the <a href="/pkg/net/http/"><code>net/http</code></a> package,
-there are a few changes related to the handling of a
+there are a few change related to the handling of a
 <a href="/pkg/http/#Request"><code>Request</code></a> data structure with its <code>Method</code> field set to the empty string.
 An empty <code>Method</code> field has always been documented as an alias for <code>"GET"</code>
 and it remains so.