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- noun computing, programming A
call from a lower-level subsystem, such as akernel orframework , to a higher-level subsystem, such asuser code .
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Examples
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Yet thebloody paper trail left by admitted murderer Jacob Teitel is not just a wake-upcall to progressive-minded Israelis -- but to Jewish America's ownliberal masses, as well.
David Kaufman: Caveat Emptor: Jewish America's West Bank Sell-Out 2009
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They invoke the legacy of Apartheid as a shock tactic, a wake-upcall, a rallying to arms; all the while dishonoring the brave thousandswho literally took to arms -- beaten, imprisoned and killed as part of the anti-Apartheid movement.
David Kaufman: Marriage Equality and the Myth of "Gay Apartheid" 2009
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Yet thebloody paper trail left by admitted murderer Jacob Teitel is not just a wake-upcall to progressive-minded Israelis -- but to Jewish America\'s ownliberal masses, as well.
David Kaufman: Caveat Emptor: Jewish America's West Bank Sell-Out 2009
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Processor interrupts may be enabled while in the upcall, but the upcall doesn't assume interrupts are disabled on entry.
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Note that some older versions of PC/TCP may enable inter - rupts during the upcall, and leave them enabled on return to the Packet Driver.
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Asynchronous notification of events such as data arrival can be obtained through the upcall facility described earlier.
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E.g., when entering the ESTABLISHED state, the state change upcall is invoked first, fol - lowed by the transmit upcall.
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When an incoming segment contains both data and FIN, the receive upcall is invoked first, followed by the state change to CLOSE_WAIT state.
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Matt has a huge fan base that just needed the wake upcall that the show just provided.
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· BUG 6810: Add support for finding alternate credcaches to cifs. upcall.
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