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Graceful Recovery

Graceful Recovery: Termination of a process that allows the operating system or parent process to regain normal control.

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Termination of a process that allows the operating system or parent process to regain normal control.

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Termination of a process that allows the operating system or parent process to regain normal control. Does no crash the machine or result in a general protection fault (GPF) or blue screen. The user is not required to close the application and can continue to use the other functionality.

Source: NIST Election GlossaryType: standard

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NIST Election Terminology Glossary, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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