Historical use of "traps"

Mike Grim grimwm at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 07:33:20 PDT 2005


I was wondering about the historical meaning of the word "trap" today, 
in context of hardware and software traps.  I have learned that creating 
a trap generally means an interrupt is created by one means or another. 
 So, does "trap" mean "a trap for the kernel to fall into and handle?"

Thanks.





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