watchdog: Add no-daemon mode and '-t -1' option
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Authored by jhibbits on Mar 10 2026, 3:24 PM.

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Summary

In order to be managed by alternatives to init, equivalents to systemd
or launchd, watchdogd needs to able to run without daemonizing. Along
with this, it is useful for watchdogd to simply reuse the watchdog
timeout set at startup, so make '-1' a valid timeout to denote reading
the timeout from the driver.

Obtained from: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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jhibbits requested review of this revision.Mar 10 2026, 3:24 PM

jhibbits created this revision.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B71315: Diff 173510.Mar 10 2026, 3:24 PM

Intersting, can you elaborate on

Obtained from: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Thank you!

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