A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
provide an API to execute the same functionality as the CTRL-BREAK (Windows) and kill -3 <pid> external signals do.

JUSTIFICATION :
In managed stacked environments, it is desirable to be able to generate a thread dump.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
provide an API to execute the same functionality as the CTRL-BREAK (Windows) and kill -3 <pid> external signals do.