[PD-dev] pd's watchdog

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> are there any objections to remove the watchdog _process_ in favor of a 
> watchdog _thread_? debugging is pain if the watchdog kills a program 
> that i stopped with gdb ...

Hmm, you could make the watchdog send a SIGSTOP to the main thread and 
offer the user to either stop the DSP (and do SIGCONT), start GDB, or quit 
PD... ? Maybe a 4th option would be to "pause (inhibit) all t_clocks (and 
do SIGCONT)" ?)

For that, though, the watchdog would have to have a Tcl connection to the 
client process just like the main thread has.

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