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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:49:02 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A working watchdog API
Message-ID:  <20030731054902.GJ10708@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030731002304.GA5131@edgemaster.zombie.org>
References:  <20030731002304.GA5131@edgemaster.zombie.org>

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Sean Kelly wrote this message on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 19:23 -0500:
> watchdog_tickle()

Why not pet the dog to keep it happy.  If you tickle it, it might bite
your hand off!

(A friend of mine told me that the man page for Solaris talks about
petting the dog to keep it from rebooting the box, etc.)

-- 
  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."



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