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 <Chip@perl.Com> 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". (1999-02-23)
