hang v.
1. [very common] To wait for an event that will
never occur. "The system is hanging because it can't read from
the crashed drive". See wedged, hung. 2. To wait for
some event to occur; to hang around until something happens. "The
program displays a menu and then hangs until you type a
character." Compare block. 3. To attach a peripheral
device, esp. in the construction `hang off': "We're going to
hang another tape drive off the file server." Implies a device
attached with cables, rather than something that is strictly inside
the machine's chassis.
1. [very common] To wait for an event that will
never occur. "The system is hanging because it can't read from
the crashed drive". See wedged, hung. 2. To wait for
some event to occur; to hang around until something happens. "The
program displays a menu and then hangs until you type a
character." Compare block. 3. To attach a peripheral
device, esp. in the construction `hang off': "We're going to
hang another tape drive off the file server." Implies a device
attached with cables, rather than something that is strictly inside
the machine's chassis.
Related:
- hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
"The system is hanging because it can't read from... - hung adj.
[from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to
wedged,
but more common at Unix/C sites. Not generally used... - hung: [from `hung up'] adj. Equivalent to {wedged},
but more common at UNIX/C sites. Not generally... - driver n.
1. The main loop of an event-processing
program;
the code that gets commands and dispatches them for... - driver: n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program;
the code that gets commands and dispatches them for... - wedged adj.
1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding
without help.
This is different from having crashed. If the system... - frogging [University of Waterloo] v.
1. Partial corruption
of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch,
as opposed to random events like line noise or media... - frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a
text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch,
as opposed to random events like line noise or media... - crash
1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often
said of the system (q.v.
sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term...
From the same category:
- garply /gar'plee/ n.
[Stanford] Another metasyntactic
variable (see foo);
once popular among SAIL hackers... - chanop /chan'-op/ n.
[IRC] See channel op... - fum n.
[XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the
standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and
bar).
Competes with baz, which is more common outside ... - livelock /li:v'lok/ n.
A situation in which some critical stage of a task... - casting the runes n.
What a guru does when you ask him
or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never
works for anyone else;
esp. used when nobody can ever see what ...
