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interrupts locked outinterrupts 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. |
The Jargon FileCartoonsThe crunchly saga
The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions. |
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