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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sleep</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="slashdot-effect.html" title="slashdot effect"/><link rel="next" href="slim.html" title="slim"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sleep</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slashdot-effect.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="slim.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sleep"/><dt xmlns="" id="sleep"><b>sleep</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking
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system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler that a process may be
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deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay
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elapses. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In jargon, used very similarly to <span class="grammar">v.</span> <a href="../B/block.html"><i class="glossterm">block</i></a>; also in
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<span class="firstterm">sleep on</span>, syn.: with <span class="firstterm">block on</span>. Often used to indicate that the
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speaker has relinquished a demand for resources until some (possibly
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unspecified) external event: “<span class="quote">They can't get the fix I've been asking
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for into the next release, so I'm going to sleep on it until the release,
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then start hassling them again.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slashdot-effect.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="slim.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">slashdot effect </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> slim</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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