Dec. 8, 2017
2:40 a.m.
On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 15:12:15 -0800, Daniel Walker said:
So typically you have a process which updates the watchdog periodically which I call a petting process. As I said the purpose is to trigger the watchdog by starving the petting process (i.e. kick process) , then the watchdog reboots the system.
If you're doing the updating from userspace, a kill -9 will get the job done.