[PD-dev] pd .36-0 "watchdog signaling pd..." on OSX

[guenter geiger]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Miller Puckette wrote:
> The best way to avoid this is to omit the "-rt" flag (the watchdog is
> there to prevent an RT process from locking out everyone else if it
> goes in an infinite loop.)  I'd like to know how to prevent its getting
> worried when tk goes away on legitimate business (like open panels) but
> don't know how to do it and still be sure it's impossible to crash the
> machine...

Wouldn't it be possible to do the watchdog pinging from a separate low
priority thread instead of the GUI ?

Guenter