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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>wedged</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="webmaster.html" title="webmaster"/><link rel="next" href="wedgie.html" title="wedgie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">wedged</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="webmaster.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wedgie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="wedged"/><dt xmlns="" id="wedged"><b>wedged</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is
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different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become
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totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do
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something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few
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things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may become
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wedged if it <a href="../D/deadlock.html"><i class="glossterm">deadlock</i></a>s with another (but not all
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instances of wedging are deadlocks). See also
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<a href="../G/gronk.html"><i class="glossterm">gronk</i></a>, <a href="../L/locked-up.html"><i class="glossterm">locked up</i></a>,
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<a href="../H/hosed.html"><i class="glossterm">hosed</i></a>, <a href="../H/hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a> (wedged is more
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severe than <a href="../H/hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. “<span class="quote">He's
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totally wedged — he's convinced that he can levitate through
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meditation.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Unix] Specifically used to describe the state of a TTY left in a
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losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed
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with the line discipline in some obscure way.</p></dd><dd><p>There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is usually
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thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial inversion;
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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
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changes in the typesetting for that page could be made.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="webmaster.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wedgie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">webmaster </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> wedgie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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