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		pjmlp on March 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy Where everything is a file handle, except when it is not (sockets, IPC, ...).

teddyh on March 2, 2017 [–]

Note: A “file handle” is a FILE *, i.e. a stream as used by a lot of the higher-level functions of the C library. The term you were looking for is probably “file descriptor”. (Or possibly “inode”, “directory entry”, or “file name”? It’s not entirely clear what you mean.)

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