file descriptor

The process itself cannot read or write the file descriptor table directly.

Returns a file descriptor which all events are read from.

File descriptors did not need to be embedded in the binary.

This includes manipulation of its file descriptors, memory, and registers.

This can become a bottleneck since the limit of file descriptors per process could be reached.

So it is more accurate to say "Everything is a file descriptor".

Every file descriptor is accompanied by a flags word.

Each child process first s the appropriate pipe file descriptor to either its standard input or output.

Devices could not be unmounted since file descriptors kept the resource busy.

Its existence in the process's file descriptor table is sufficient to know that the process does indeed have legitimate access to the object.

With the older module, a program had to use one file descriptor for each directory that it was monitoring.

The use of file descriptors along with dnotify also proved to be a problem when using removable media.

When a file is opened a file descriptor is created.

The pipe ends appear to be normal, anonymous file descriptors, except that they have no ability to seek.

Unix file descriptors behave in many ways as capabilities.

Creates an object and returns its file descriptor.

Channels are analogous to "file descriptors" found in Unix-like operating systems.

A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as file descriptors, from its parent.

The colors, icons, included functions and file descriptor columns are all configurable.

The following lists typical operations on file descriptors on modern Unix-like systems.

A Unix process' file descriptor table is an example of a C-list.

Simple resident and transient servers consumed a file descriptor per client connection.

But file descriptors are also created for things like anonymous pipes and network sockets via different methods.

Common resource handles are file descriptors and sockets.

The license server was able to keep up very nicely with this workload once we increased the number of file descriptors."