Watchdog thread

[Jason Clinton]

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jim wrote:
| Hi,
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| I've got a multi-threaded app and I want to have one thread monitor another
| thread.  If the watched thread locks up for some reason, I want the watchdog
| thread to kill it and restart it.  Can someone point me to some information
| on how to that?

BSOD:

Warning! Application XXX has caused an invalid page fault in module EMM386.
Press any key to terminate this program.

Isn't general programming practice to not write such a 'watchdog' thread? If the
code to said 'watched' thread is out of your control, you could just write a
Perl script to monitor it. If it's under your control, wouldn't you want to just
resolve the freezing/locking?

Just an honest question.

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