what's the meaning of plain text file's executable attribute

DaVinci

Thought they are mostly named in this way, hardware or software interrupts are not the correct way of naming events.

According to the Intel manual for 486 interrupts are those received on the INTR (maskable) and NMI (non maskable) inputs of the processor. These are hardware generated events.

Exceptions are those detected by the processor. These are further clbuttified as faults, traps and aborts. These are software generated events.

Faults are detected *before* instruction end so the same instruction can be restarted (as page faults).

Traps are detected *after* instruction end (as general protection or divide by zero faults).

Aborts are severe errors for which the processor can't identify the cause.

Intel defines also trap gates and interrupt gates (no reference to previous definitions). These gates are the pointers to the procedure to handle the interrupt or the exception. The difference between the two types of gates is that the latter resets the IF (interrupt flag) preventing further maskable interrupts till the IRET terminates the procedure (or the procedure itself sets IF). This prevents interrupt nesting.

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