26 AUTOMATIC RESTARTS AND MULTITHREADING
In this chapter, I’ll explore solutions to a couple of vexing issues for any coder: intermittent failures and hangs, specifically the type that usually execute successfully if restarted. I’ll detail how to automatically restart an intermittent failure of any process in a bat file. Hangs are a little trickier, but I’ll introduce a technique for terminating or killing the hung process before restarting it. For both types of issues, I’ll step through how to create a solution, including design considerations, specifications, coding, and even testing.
Along the way, I’ll introduce some interesting commands ...
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