backup pumpkin ⇝
pumpkin
<jargon>
A humourous term for the token - the object (notional or real) that gives its possessor (the "pumpking" or the "pumpkineer") exclusive access to something, e.g. applying patches to a master copy of source (for which the pumpkin is called a "patch pumpkin").
Chip Salzenberg <[email protected]> wrote: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job, there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups. But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin. No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".Last updated: 1999-02-23
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pull media ♦ Pulse Code Modulation ♦ pumpkin ♦ pumpkineer ♦ pumpking
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