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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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vi. 1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking
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system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler that a process may be
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deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses.
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2. In jargon, used very similarly to v. block ; also in sleep on , syn.:
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with block on. Often used to indicate that the speaker has relinquished a
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demand for resources until some (possibly unspecified) external event: They
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can't get the fix I've been asking for into the next release, so I'm going
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to sleep on it until the release, then start hassling them again.
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