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Martin Milan edited this page Jan 27, 2023 · 2 revisions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor#Overview

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/195099/78606

If you look at early implementations, the set of all open file descriptions in the system was an array.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/195097/78606

The term open file description is the one used by POSIX to refer to the entries in the system-wide table of open files. In other contexts, this object is variously also called an "open file object", a "file handle", an "open file table entry", or—in kernel-developer parlance—a struct file .

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