I think this actually a pretty old idea, but I was wondering if there has been any movement on it.

In the same way you can restart a kernel in a notebook, it would be awesome if you could restart an ipengine. My understanding is that this would require a nontrivial rewrite of the engine, involving an entire extra monitoring process that just isn't there right now.

Does this seem like something likely to be implemented? If I took a crack at it, would that be helpful? Or is there another plan...