watchdog end-user interface

[Ngie Cooper]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:
...
> Please look at the Linux interface for watchdogs, it is pretty good and
> could/should be ported to us.

We (Isilon) also have a software watchdog implementation (in lieu of
IPMI+watchdogd) to make sure "userspace processes are making
progress".

It would be nice if there was a generalized software watchdog
subsystem available in FreeBSD -- I think your suggestion to follow
Linux's example may be a good investigative step to avoid reinventing
the wheel too much.

Thanks!
-Ngie