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- About "Deadman"
-
- This is a very simple time manager task to count seconds (under interrupt
- control), while an even simpler faceless mainline job resets the
- counter. If the counter ever underflows, a reset is performed, resulting
- in a modicum of safety, since in my experience the majority of "crashes"
- only hang the mainline, not the interrupt routines.
-
- Source code for all. I will try to answer questions, but I wrote this
- quite a while ago...
-
- Think C6, currently.
-
- Free to all.
-
- Chuck Pliske
- chuckp@u.washington.edu
-
- Included are a couple of test applications: a "hanger", and a
- "rebooter". If you run them, they do what their names suggest.
-
- CAUTION: Many app will sense that they are the foreground app and
- not bother to give up the cpu for perhaps many minutes. 4th Dimension
- and Retrospect come to mind as excellent examples. I'm not responsible
- for any problems that may result from getting your machine rebooted,
- although in my experience it has never been a problem.
-
- Enjoy