Feeding the Watchdog in "Periodic Tasks"

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Feeding the Watchdog in "Periodic Tasks"

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03-04-2010, 14:56

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Re: Feeding the Watchdog in "Periodic Tasks"

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Originally Posted by Ether

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"The FMS won't disable you whenever your User Watchdog goes off. It doesn't even know when it happens, nor care. That's a "user issue" to it."

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I wasn't implying that it disabled you, just that it leads to comm problems. All the info I have on FMS is second hand so I don't know if FMS sees the watchdog. I am not really saying this is FMS's fault. If your code messes up and throws a watchdog, it is hard to recover while connected to FMS.

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