Passphrase timeout for disk decryption at boot added (potential battery lifesaver)

Have you had your laptop accidentally un-hibernate while you weren’t looking, leaving you with a totally drained battery?

Now OpenBSD-current has a fix for that, thanks to this commit by Klemens Nanni (kn@). The commit message reads,

List:       openbsd-cvs
Subject:    CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
From:       Klemens Nanni <kn () cvs ! openbsd ! org>
Date:       2024-04-25 18:31:49

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	kn@cvs.openbsd.org	2024/04/25 12:31:49

Modified files:
	sys/lib/libsa  : softraid.c 
	sys/arch/amd64/stand/boot: boot.8 
	sys/arch/amd64/stand/efiboot: Makefile.common cmd_i386.c conf.c 
	                              efiboot.c efiboot.h 

Log message:
Add boot.conf(8) 'mach idle [secs]' to halt at idle passphrase prompts

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