| comp., MS |
polling (The process of periodically determining the status of each device in a set so that the active program can process the events generated by each device, such as whether a mouse button was pressed or whether new data is available at a serial port. This can be contrasted with event-driven processing, in which the operating system alerts a program or routine to the occurrence of an event by means of an interrupt or message rather than having to check each device in turn); probe (A process that checks that a memory-address range is in user-mode address space and that the range can be read or written in the context of the current process) |
