watchdog

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If you don't disable watchdog then when it starts up and isn't working watchdog will have it automatically reboot.

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Quick take

To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of watchdog gathered in one view.

verb

To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.

noun

A guard dog.

verb

(electronics) To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for watchdog.

verb

To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.

noun

A guard dog.

verb

(electronics) To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.

noun

(figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.

Example sentences

If you don't disable watchdog then when it starts up and isn't working watchdog will have it automatically reboot.

A watchdog pattern just splits the program into several processes, the program as a whole still never crashes.

And while you are at it perhaps a disconnected drogue chute that deploys if a watchdog signal is lost.

If watchdog is disabled then while the infotainment system won't work it's easy to ssh back in and fix the file.

Your watchdog will restart tasks X and Y when they die, so why not Z?

Systems engineering 101 stuff, the watchdog is a fail safe on the software system.

Also, isn't there a watchdog circuit that would reboot if a heartbeat fails?

Also Media Research center (conservative) RationalWiki isn't specifically a media watchdog but tends to debunk flawed logic (on both the right and left).

Suppose you have something with a watchdog that times something every time it runs to check that nothing suddenly gets slower / faster.

Otherwise the iOS watchdog would kill the listening App the sooner the later so it would not be possible without use of private API/Support from Apple.

You'll soon be regretting building a spacecraft without a watchdog.

Then I would ally with the local watchdog political party to run this as one of their issues, just because their faces are popular.

Quote examples

He testified that Toyota’s watchdog supervisor “is incapable of ever detecting the death of a major task.

I'm going to guess that this "watchdog" only calls out spin and corruption in some cases but not others.

So is democratic governance, which depends on an effective watchdog news media." Post-Iraq (and in the days of government-backed Snowden-smearing) that's a problematic statement.

But isn't it great that a "privacy watchdog" is limiting the privacy invasions Facebook can inflict on us, while surveilling us themselves, and funding their operations with money that's forcefully taken from us?