May 15, 2003

interrupts locked out

adj.

When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitress's attention, a hacker might well observe She must have interrupts locked out. The synonym interrupts disabled is also common. Variations abound; to have one's interrupt mask bit set and interrupts masked out are also heard. See also spl.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:42 AM

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