timeout
timeout
Definition
time·out or time-out (tīm′o̵ut′)
noun
- any time taken for rest or not counted toward a work record, score, etc.
- ☆ Sports a brief suspension of play, with the timekeeper's clock stopped, as to allow a team to make substitutions or discuss strategy
- a disciplinary technique in which a child who misbehaves is sent to be alone for a few minutes so as to calm down before returning to work or play
Timeout
Hacker Definition
A preset time period during which a given computer task must be completed or the
task is canceled. An example is someone configuring his or her Personal
Computer to drop the connection to a remote server after a predetermined period
passed without some task activity.
See Also: Computer.
Symantec Security Response. Glossary. [Online, July 15, 2004.] Symantec
Security Response Website.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html.
timeout
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- specify: Specify the timeout, in seconds, for the server.
- set: You can set the timeout using the client toolkit.
- call: The period of time between the start of an action and the declaration of a failure state is called a timeout.
Noun used with modifier
- inactivity: Probably the most useful was the idea to incorporate an inactivity timeout into the " auto launch " facility.
- default: The default timeout interval for these requests is 15 seconds.
- connection: Your input on these would be welcome 1. Old connection timeout.
- session: Returns: the session timeout limit in seconds; zero means there is no limit.
- server: Improved Upgrader - There's now a progress bar in the module upgrade step to combat server timeouts.
- selection: The selection timeout is the time within which the two communicating applications must respond to one another.
Adjective modifier
- idle: Also, a means of implementing an " idle timeout " mechanism, similar to that of Magpie, has yet to be found.
- specified: Creates a new session settings object with the specified timeout.
- long: How do I create long timeouts without stopping my program?
- short: The older the data the worse the position, hence many receivers have a short timeout for such data.
Modifies a noun
- interval: The default timeout interval for these requests is 15 seconds.
- value: To reset the timeout value to the default value used by the resource manager, set the value to zero.
- limit: Returns: the session timeout limit in seconds; zero means there is no limit.
- error: Fixed: On some Unix system sending very large files causes timeout errors.
- argument: The timeout period, specified by the timeout argument in milliseconds, has elapsed.
- period: Second, having a short timeout period reduces the potential for denial of service attacks.
Preposition: in
- millisecond: Parameters: timeout - the specified timeout in milliseconds.
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