nonalertable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not alertable; not listening for notifications from other threads of execution.
Example Sentences
- "A file-copying example highlights NT's potent asynchronous I/O features, contrasting the extended (i.e., alertable) read, write, and wait functions with their standard (i.e., nonalertable) counterparts."
- "The bottom line: perform nonalertable waits unless you know you shouldn't."
- "Blocking is done with a nonalertable wait, and waiters are released in a roughly FIFO order, although the lock is unfair and will permit concurrent acquisition attempts to succeed."