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           and 'b!', so that they are created only at boot and not
           overwritten at runtime.
 
+        * When the watchdog logic is used for a service (WatchdogSec=)
+          and the watchdog timeout is hit the service will now be
+          terminated with SIGABRT (instead of just SIGTERM), in order
+          to make sure a proper coredump and backtrace is
+          generated. This ensures that hanging services will result in
+          similar coredump/backtrace behaviour as services that hit a
+          segmentation fault.
+
         Contributions from: Andreas Henriksson, Andrei Borzenkov,
         Angus Gibson, Ansgar Burchardt, Ben Wolsieffer, Brandon L.
         Black, Christian Hesse, Cristian Rodríguez, Daniel Buch,