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Honored ContributorQuerying if a task is alive in uCOS
Hi, I want to implement a simple software watch dog task whose job is to see if all other tasked in the system are alive. If a task hangs (is dead) the watch dog would then remove power to an I...
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Honored ContributorIt would be easier to have each task that needs to be watched register with the watchdog task that you are creating. This way each task could be given a unique interval with each to signal the wdog task that they are alive.
The OS would have difficulty saying whether a task is waiting too long for semaphore or in some unexpected infinite loop. This is an application specific problem.
