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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, December 27, 2004 7:11:08 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
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-A TimeOut is the period after which an action or request is no longer valid.
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-Many network and disk operations set timeouts, to tell the underlying drivers to return an error rather than continuing to retry an operation indefinitely. On the WorldWideWeb
[TimeOut]s can mean that a remote machine has crashed or is unreachable. Cookies, sessions and [Kerberos] tokens also have a TimeOut which means that they are useless after that time.
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-Also a chain of video game arcades. And where naughty children are set to consider their actions
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[TimeOut] here
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