[syslinux] PXERETRY directive

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Wed Apr 27 03:43:37 PDT 2016


On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 06:23:38AM -0400, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Ady via Syslinux <syslinux op zytor.com> wrote:
> > Would someone please be so kind to explain / describe the PXERETRY
> > directive?
> 
> $ git grep -ni pxeretry

 -i   ignore case     ("thanks" said the person who exact case matching search )

> com32/elflink/ldlinux/readconfig.c:1305:    else if (looking_at(p, "pxeretry"))
> com32/elflink/ldlinux/readconfig.c:1306:        PXERetry =
> atoi(skipspace(p + 8));
> 
> core/fs/pxe/pxe.c:275:    int i = PXERetry;
> 
> 
> It's used in pxe_searchdir() to affect how many times it retries to
> open a file and added in commit 4f989f247 for 4.03.

What is a recommend value for the directive?
Has it a default value?


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Geert Stappers
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