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I think you're more of a sidekick.

Indeed and LabVIEW DSC is on the way out. There have been no updates to it in years and support questions are blissfully ignored for a long time. HIQ was acquired in the first half of the 90ies and had the potential to compete with Mathematica and Matlab back then, but NI mainly used it to cannibalize some of its mathematical routines and add some of it to LabVIEW and then lost interest on it. Lookout was acquired around the some time. It was a very unique DSC software package with a rather interesting object oriented architecture. NI used the low level components to create its Logos network protocol infrastructure on which things like Datasocket and later Shared Variables were implemented. They also used various components of Lookout to convert the originally purely LabVIEW based BridgeVIEW system into LabVIEW DSC. After that Lookout spend its existence as a rather badly cared for step child in the NI product portfolio and eventually nobody was left over to support it anymore. LabWindows/CVI changed from yearly updates with new features added regularly to two year updates with not much more than cosmetic bugfixes for several years already. It's worse in terms of new features added than LabVIEW ever was for many years. But with LabVIEW they used the excuse that all effort was directed towards LabVIEW NXG and LabVIEW was going to be replaced by it one day. NI MultiSim used to be two products from the same company (Electronics Workbench) who were named Electronics Workbench and ULTIboard before they got acquired by NI and were at that time one of the leading EDA products in the educational market worldwide. Nowadays they are completely insignificant in the EDA market. If you have the money you will subscribe to Altium Designer, if you try to be a bit cheaper you may use Autodesk Fusion 360 or if you are an old time Eagle user then maybe Autodesk Eagle PCB and if you insist on Open Source then KiCAD will be very likely your choice (which has made large strides since CERN has decided to back it). Electronics Workbench (or NI MultiSIM) is not on that list for sure. I have used it a few times since it is part of our Alliance Member software lease but it is not up to the task of creating modern PCB designs and hence not worth the effort to learn its many specific mechanisms and bugs.

We normally just make the executable reboot the cRIO/sbRIO it runs on instead, through the system configuration function nisyscfg.lvlib:Restart.vi, but here are two discussions on killing and restarting just the rtexe on LinuxRT: https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Linux-Real-Time-Discussions/Launching-startup-rtxe-from-terminal-or-linux-window-manager/td-p/3457415 https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Linux-Real-Time-Discussions/Is-it-possible-to-close-and-re-open-RTEXE-through-Embedded-UI/td-p/3707540