nonalertable

alternative non-alertable

1. not comparablecomputingNot alertable; not listening for notifications from other threads of execution.

   The bottom line: perform nonalertable waits unless you know you shouldn't.

   2003, Walter Oney, Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, page 201

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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.

   1994, Byte - Volume 19, page 237

   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.

   2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows