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• hang: v. 1. To wait for an event that will never occur.
  The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive"....
• hung adj. [from `hung up'; common] Equivalent to wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with locked up, wedged...
• hung: [from `hung up'] adj. Equivalent to {wedged}, but more common at UNIX/C sites.
  Not generally used of people. Syn. with {locked up}, {wedged}...
• driver n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program
  he code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• driver: n. 1. The {main loop} of an event-processing program
  the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• 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 failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• 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 failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• 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 originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....