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Summary: PeriodicActivity does not start PeriodicThread if
necessary.
Product: RTT
Version: 1.1.0
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Operating System Abstraction - Portability
AssignedTo: orocos-dev [..] ...
ReportedBy: peter [dot] soetens [..] ...

If for whatever reason (like an exception or detected overrun) a PeriodicThread
was stopped by Orocos, a user can no longer start a child
activity from scripting.

If the parent thread is not running, the activity should try to start the
thread again.

(This issue came up when testing the EtherCat master at a too high frequency
along with some printf() statements :-) Once the thread emergency-stopped, the
master could no longer be re-started from the console.)