Very imprecise watchdogd(8) timeout

[Andriy Gapon]

on 16/09/2011 23:59 Arnaud Lacombe said the following:
> in which case the current notifier-based architecture is broken. You
> may want to have a soft-watchdog triggering after 5s, and a fallback
> hardware watchdog triggering after 60s.

So let's start with the real problem, FreeBSD watchdog infrastructure doesn't
expose an API to do what you described above.
I think that it would be a rather small part to change the representation of
timeouts from current form to, say, value + unit encoding.

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Andriy Gapon