How does software watchdog work?

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Issue

  • How does software watchdog work?
  • Is it the same as reboot -fni or echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • watchdog-5.5-10.el6.x86_64

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