computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output resource...

Media Descriptor File (MDF) is a proprietary disc image file format developed for Alcohol 120%, an optical disc authoring program. Daemon Tools, CDemu...

The Binary File Descriptor library (BFD) is the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats. As...

number of file types. When a file is opened, a file descriptor is created, using the file path as an addressing system. The file descriptor is then a...

an operating system can reference through a file descriptor. Once present, this correlation between the file and the memory space permits applications to...

communication path. The Berkeley sockets API represents it as a file descriptor (file handle) in the Unix philosophy that provides a common interface...

File descriptor, an abstract key for accessing a file In chemistry: Molecular descriptor, which helps characterize a chemical compound Descriptor (chemistry)...

The first 16 sectors of the file system are empty and reserved for other uses. The rest begins with a volume descriptor set (a header block which describes...

traditional implementations, file descriptors are indices into a (per-process) file descriptor table, thence a (system-wide) file table. While a pointer contains...

functions that establish the link between FILE objects and file descriptors, and a group of functions for creating FILE objects that refer to in-memory buffers...

the process's standard streams. /dev/fd/n – accesses the process's file descriptor n. Additionally, BSD-specific pseudo-devices with an ioctl interface...

counter-intuitive. All fcntl locks associated with a file for a given process are removed when any file descriptor for that file is closed by that process, even if a...

The GNU Project's Binary File Descriptor library (BFD library) provides a common API for the manipulation of object files in a variety of formats. Many...

"duplicate") and dup2 system calls create a copy of a given file descriptor. This new descriptor actually does not behave like a copy, but like an alias of...

given in number of bytes. write thus takes three arguments: The file code (file descriptor or fd). The pointer to a buffer where the data is stored (buf)...

The file descriptor for standard output is 1 (one); the POSIX <unistd.h> definition is STDOUT_FILENO; the corresponding C <stdio.h> variable is FILE* stdout;...

of a file descriptor in the process's file descriptor table. This file descriptor is a capability. Its existence in the process's file descriptor table...

achieved using file I/O, with the target identified by a file descriptor. The select and poll system calls allow a set of file descriptors to be monitored...

regular-file open() system call, the socket() system call returns a file descriptor. The return value's suffix _fd stands for file descriptor. After instantiating...

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed...

entries and per-process file descriptors. It provides file access, directory operations, security and protection. The virtual file system, an optional layer...

needs to access data from a file stored in a file system uses the read system call. The file is identified by a file descriptor that is normally obtained...

Versions of DOS before 3.2 totally or partially relied on the media descriptor byte in the BPB or the FAT ID byte in cluster 0 of the first FAT in order...

uses the select system call to sleep until a condition occurs on a file descriptor (e.g., when data is available for reading), a timeout occurs, or a...

version 2.5.45 of the Linux kernel. Its function is to monitor multiple file descriptors to see whether I/O is possible on any of them. It is meant to replace...

an environment FCNTL FSTAT Stat a file using a file descriptor FSTATFS Stat a file system using a file descriptor IOCTL LINK First half of link() operation...

system call used to close a file descriptor by the kernel. For most file systems, a program terminates access to a file in a filesystem using the close...

administrators and programmers can read core dump files using the GNU Binutils Binary File Descriptor library (BFD), and the GNU Debugger (gdb) and objdump...

the C and C++ programming languages, unistd.h is the name of the header file that provides access to the POSIX operating system API. It is defined by...

and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file descriptors of open input/output channels. The select system call is similar to...