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