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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Organization: ProntoTV AS
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: softdog doesn't work on 2.4.20-pre10?
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:27:00 +0200
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On Wednesday 09 October 2002 17:33, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:12, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > > hi
> > > >
> > > > I have the softdog running on some of my machines, and I noticed it
> > > > didn't work very well. I've got this little program feeding the dog
> > > > (attached), so if it gets killed, the machine should reboot.
> > >
> > > Make sure you have no way out set
> >
> > ok. works with no way out, but still...
> >
> > When I killed 'feedthedog', I sent it a SIGKILL, so it couldn't have shut
> > down the softdog properly.
>
> Of course it did , it exited so the fil ehandles closed

not according to Documentation/watchdog-api.txt

but

it doesn't tell if the softdog supports the send-'V'-before-close-file command 
to shut it down

roy
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