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wedged
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adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different
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from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally
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non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but
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cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few things, but not be
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fully operational. For example, a process may become wedged if it deadlock s
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with another (but not all instances of wedging are deadlocks). See also
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gronk , locked up , hosed , hung (wedged is more severe than hung ). 2.
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Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. He's totally wedged he's
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convinced that he can levitate through meditation. 3. [Unix] Specifically
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used to describe the state of a TTY left in a losing state by abort of a
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screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line discipline in
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some obscure way. There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is
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usually thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial
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inversion; however, it may actually have originated with older hot-press
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printing technology in which physical type elements were locked into type
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frames with wedges driven in by mallets. Once this had been done, no changes
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in the typesetting for that page could be made.
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