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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2018-12-14 08:26:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2018-12-14 11:17:52 +0100 |
| commit | 3f9a0a522f2029e9295ea5e9984259022be88413 (patch) | |
| tree | b6b2a8ee8c96940952015f88c7721458dea503f8 /docs/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE.md | |
| parent | 1a359852641119db951da03bf9c67f9dc34d6257 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-3f9a0a522f2029e9295ea5e9984259022be88413.tar.gz | |
tree-wide: s/time-out/timeout/g
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
time-out
n 1: a brief suspension of play; "each team has two time-outs left"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 March 2015) [foldoc]:
timeout
A period of time after which an error condition is raised if
some event has not occured. A common example is sending a
message. If the receiver does not acknowledge the message
within some preset timeout period, a transmission error is
assumed to have occured.
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diff --git a/docs/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE.md b/docs/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE.md index e1b99be960..a0c7f39970 100644 --- a/docs/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE.md +++ b/docs/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE.md @@ -21,18 +21,18 @@ variables. All EFI variables use the vendor UUID ESP the boot loader was run from formatted as NUL-terminated UTF16 string, in normal GUID syntax. -* The EFI variable `LoaderConfigTimeout` contains the boot menu time-out +* The EFI variable `LoaderConfigTimeout` contains the boot menu timeout currently in use. It may be modified both by the boot loader and by the host. The value should be formatted as numeric, NUL-terminated, decimal string, in UTF-16. The time is specified in µs. * Similarly, the EFI variable `LoaderConfigTimeoutOneShot` contains a boot menu - time-out for a single following boot. It is set by the OS in order to request + timeout for a single following boot. It is set by the OS in order to request display of the boot menu on the following boot. When set overrides `LoaderConfigTimeout`. It is removed automatically after being read by the boot loader, to ensure it only takes effect a single time. This value is formatted the same way as `LoaderConfigTimeout`. If set to `0` the boot menu - time-out is turned off, and the menu is shown indefinitely. + timeout is turned off, and the menu is shown indefinitely. * The EFI variable `LoaderEntries` may contain a series of boot loader entry identifiers, one after the other, each individually NUL terminated. This may |