Talk:waitable

RFV
Looks like a hoax, possibly the same vandal who gaves us pleuvable and all the other -able words that got zero Google Hits. Or it could be genuine, let's be fair. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * waitable: is definitely a term in computing - bgc is full of results for "waitable timers", "waitable kernel objects" , "waitable resources" , etc. but I don't understand what it means.
 * A possibly different sense is used in contrasting "waitable" and "non-waitable" messages, presumably a "waitable message" is one that is not urgent and is able to wait, which isn't quite the sense given. This has appeared in a refereed academic journal and so would fulfil that criterion of the CFI, but I've not yet found any other uses in this sense, but getting past all the computing uses is tricky.
 * I've found two cites from usenet (,, meaning "a length of tine that is reasonable to wait for something", which might or might not be the sense given in the entry, I'm not sure. Again the number of uses in the computing sense make finding other uses non-trivial. Thryduulf (talk) 12:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I've found another two bgc hits, 1 |timers+-windows++-computing+-microsoft+-programming&dq=%22waitable%22+-timer|timers+-windows++-computing+-microsoft+-programming&hl=en&ei=mApYTOzlE46cOLDy0ZoJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCQ I don't understand at all. In the second |timers+-windows++-computing+-microsoft+-programming&dq=%22waitable%22+-timer|timers+-windows++-computing+-microsoft+-programming&hl=en&ei=7gpYTJOnJM2HOLis4KQJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAjge I think "but they were not waitable" means "the time they would take to arrive is longer than the length of time he could wait for them", if so this would be a similar usage to the 2 ggc hits about waiting time above, but I'm not sure if it is the exact same sense. Thryduulf (talk) 12:38, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Failed RFV. Equinox ◑ 00:33, 9 July 2011 (UTC)