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• pecial-case: vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in a program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing.
  This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive interface (as opposed, say, to text entry or normal commands), or for processing of {hidden flag}s in the input of a batch program or {filter}....
• buffer overflow n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This problem is commonly exploited by crackers to get arbitrary commands executed by a program running with root permissions....
• batch adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify
  in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as `batch mode' switches....
• batch: adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify
  in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as `batch mode' switches....
• ad-hockery /ad-hok'*r-ee/ n. [Purdue] 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• buffer overflow: n. What happens when you try to stuff more data into a buffer (holding area) than it can handle.
  This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see {overrun} and {firehose syndrome}), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed....
• cooked mode n. [Unix, by opposition from raw mode] The normal character-input mode
  with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver....
• ad-hockery: /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• driver n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program
  he code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution....