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59 points hui-zheng | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 16:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source

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Liftyee ◴[30 Apr 24 22:40 UTC] No.40217316[source]▶

In embedded systems watchdog timers are often used as a crash mechanism outside of the software itself, which will crash the program if it is not reset. I found this concept of crash-only software pretty neat - time to see if I can apply it.

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1. eternityforest ◴[01 May 24 01:27 UTC] No.40218518[source]▶

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There's an ongoing discussion on the Systemd issue tracker about making better use of HW watchdogs: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/21083

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