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• pl /S-P-L/ [abbrev, from Set Priority Level] The way traditional Unix kernels implement mutual exclusion by running code at high interrupt levels.
  Used in jargon to describe the act of tuning in or tuning out ordinary communication....
• 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"....
• 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"....
• priority interrupt: [from the hardware term] n. Describes any stimulus compelling enough to yank one right out of {hack mode}.
  Classically used to describe being dragged away by an {SO} for immediate sex, but may also refer to more mundane interruptions such as a fire alarm going off in the near vicinity....
• interrupt: 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• Nightmare File System: n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS).
  In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up....
• ap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program.
  In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program....
• delta: n. 1. [techspeak] A quantitative change, especially a small or incremental one (this use is general in physics and engineering).
  I just doubled the speed of my program!" "What was the delta on program size?...
• GC: /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1.
  vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today....