> cm_watchdog() has been removed from the latest midas sources
> Removal of cm_watchdog() solves many problems in the midas code base:

Removal of cm_watchdog() creates new problems:

a) the bm_send_event(BM_WAIT) and bm_receive_event(BM_WAIT) wait for free space and wait for new event do not update the timeouts (need to add a call 
to cm_periodic_tasks())
b) frontends that talk to slow external equipment now die unless they have their timeout adjusted to be longer than the longest equipment operation (they 
were already supposed to do this, but...)
c) mhttpd sometimes dies from from an odb timeout (with the default 10 sec timeout).

As one solution, we may bring an automatic cm_watchdog() back, but running from a thread instead of from SIGALARM.

K.O.