Added a watchdog mechanism (optional) to automatically kill a lonely clones when the launcher is dead

[Eric_BOB]

Sometimes you can lose communication with clones and can't send any "Stop" request.

In this case, those clones stay in memory in a running state, and it is very hard to kill them. Stop or Kill launcher have no effect. The only way I have found is to close the project but it's not very usefull.

It will be good to have a watchdog mechanism to kill lonely clones

As discussed here  JKI SMO and drjdpowell messenger library, have this kind of mechanism.

drjdpowell

[drjdpowell]

Hi Joerg, yes, I'm unsure such a feature really fits DQMH's "group of peers" model.  I would strongly argue a hierarchical structure is better than group-of-peers, but DQMH isn't designed for that.  "Autoshutdown" works very well in a system where a Module effectively contains other Modules as private parts of itself.  Shutting down the Module always implies shutting down it's internal subcomponents.

[Olivier-JOURDAN]

We think that this kind of feature would hide issues from the developers.