watchdog should allow a configurable SIGTERM->SIGKILL delay

[hexafraction]

This is a feature request, so if someone with the appropriate permissions could tag this as wishlist that would be nice.

I use Watchdog on a server that runs a program that has a long, unavoidable shutdown sequence. From a SIGTERM to process termination, it can be anywhere from 15-60 seconds. Watchdog, however, will only offer 5 seconds in case of a failure, which is hardwired into shutdown.c, apparently line 445.

I request that the time is set in a configuration file instead of in source, so that the time can be tuned.

As it appears, sleep()ing for more than 60 seconds will cause a hard reboot anyway, so safe_sleep as seen in the current Git pull(as of Sept 14. 2013) seems to be the proper function to use.

[Paul Crawford (psc-sat)]

This has been added to the current GIT version:

http://sourceforge.net/p/watchdog/code/ci/77e777e2fb4cc0723fb51ad5556a427cf345385b/

Hopefully there will soon be a version 5.15 release with this feature included.

[Lenin (gagarin)]

5.15 was released with 18.04