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Uninterruptible sleep
In computer operating systems terminology, a sleeping process can either be interruptible (woken via signals) or uninterruptible (woken explicitly). An uninterruptible sleep state is a sleep state that cannot handle a signal (such as waiting for disk or network IO (input/output)).
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