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hung: adj. [from ‘hung up’; common] Equivalent to
wedged, but more common at Unix/C sites. Not
generally used of people. Syn. with locked up,
wedged; compare hosed. See
also hang. A hung state is distinguished from
crashed or down, where the
program or system is also unusable but because it is not running rather
than because it is waiting for something. However, the recovery from both
situations is often the same. It is also distinguished from the similar
but more drastic state wedged — hung software can
be woken up with easy things like interrupt keys, but wedged will need a
kill -9 or even reboot.
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