preemption

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Yeah, it's not really the user-space part I have an issue with, just the lack of preemption.

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Quick take

the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

noun

the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

noun

the right to purchase something in advance of others

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for preemption.

noun

the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

See also: pre-emption

noun

the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

See also: pre-emption

noun

the right to purchase something in advance of others

See also: pre-emption

noun

a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"

See also: pre-emption

Example sentences

Yeah, it's not really the user-space part I have an issue with, just the lack of preemption.

You need a precisely timed kill, followed by a precisely timed preemption.

" Between that and implementing preemption, at some point you just have to buckle down and pay for stacks.

Odds of preemption between the client's write and its read seem small, so it shouldn't matter whether you Nagle or not.

But, task preemption is most likely not correlated with the contents of secret data.

I saw it as a preemption of a threatened attack on Upton's and the Foundation's reputation.

It seems like it is becoming the norm to expect to be exploited at some point so the de-facto preemption is to have someone to blame.

In stronger models, Haskell, Go and Erlang, this break-up is usually automatic and preemption makes sure it is not a problem.

While they have added some preemption to the scheduler, go is still generally cooperative multitasking.

Barring preemption, I think of TV shows as occuring with clocklike regularity, and even with preemption, it's more common for the interrupted show to make like nothing happened and just air the parts that would have been showing then anyway, than to air over an altered time period.