How to force a thread to stop

[Gerhard Fiedler]

On 2006-08-04 02:33:07, H J van Rooyen wrote:

> The next step above the 555 is a PIC... then you can steal power from the
> RS-232 line - and its a small step from "PIC" to "PIG"...

I see... you obviously know what to do, if you want to :)

But I'm not sure such a device alone is of much help in a typical server. I
think it's probably just as common that only one service hangs. To make it
useful, the trigger process has to be carefully designed, so that it
actually has a chance of failing when you need it to fail. This probably
requires either code changes to the various services (so that they each
trigger their own watchdog) or some supervisor program that only triggers
the watchdog if it receives responses from all relevant services.

Gerhard