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[ts-7000] Watchdog or Linux reboot?

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Subject: [ts-7000] Watchdog or Linux reboot?
From: "e_fenimore" <>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:55:54 -0000
Not sure if this is the best place for this question: but...here goes:

To guarantee that a program is always running, seems like a software watchdog 
is the best 
idea.  However, the watchdog shipped with the TS-7260 needs to be fed every 8 
seconds.  
Segmenting my program into 8 second blocks seems messy.  So, I propose an 
alternate 
approach:

I'll use a separate thread (or even independent app) to periodically check in 
on the main app.  
If the main app doesn't check in within, say, 30 minutes, a reset can be 
forced.  I could use 
the watchdog in that separate thread so that if it died, too, it would cause a 
reset.  This 
seems like a good approach.  Just wondering if anyone has anything better, or 
some insight 
into watchdog use?





 
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