Nonalertable

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not alertable; not listening for notifications from other threads of execution. not-comparable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From non- + alertable.

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