On Wed, 01.02.12 17:17, Michael Olbrich ([email protected]) wrote:
heya,
sorry it took so much time to review these patches. And thanks for
staying on it.
> This patch adds WatchdogTimestamp[Monotonic] to the systemd service
> D-Bus API. The timestamp is updated to the current time when the
> service calls 'sd_nofity("WATCHDOG=1\n")'.
> Using a timestamp instead of an 'alive' flag has two advantages:
> 1. No timeout is needed to define when a service is no longer alive.
> This simplifies both configuration (no timeout value) and
> implementation (no timeout event).
> 2. It is more robust. A 'dead' service might not be detected should
> systemd 'forget' to reset an 'alive' flag. It is much less likely
> to get a valid new timestamp if a service died.
Merged this one now, with some minor changes.
Thanks,
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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