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interrupts locked out
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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.