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File descriptor

In Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.

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Operations on file descriptors

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Overview

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Atsuffix operations

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File descriptors as capabilities

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Operations on file descriptors

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File descriptors as capabilities

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File descriptor

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples41
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037736
Components1

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File descriptor

Top relations

related to overview · 14
File descriptor → As, File, In, It, On Linux, PID, PID/fd, PID/fd/0isstdin, PID/fd/1isstdout, PID/fd/2isstderr, The, This, To, Unix
related to File descriptors as capabilities · 6
File descriptor → C-list, In, Note, They, This, Unix
related to Operations on the file descriptor table · 6
File descriptor → BSD, Close, Linux, Solaris, The, There
related to atsuffix operations · 5
File descriptor → POSIX, The, Theatsuffix, TOCTOU, Unix-like
related to Operations on a single file descriptor · 5
File descriptor → FDs, FILE, ID, Linux, Unix
related to Operations on file descriptors · 3
File descriptor → Most, The, Unix-like
related to Operations on multiple file descriptors · 2
File descriptor → BSD-based, Linux

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file descriptors descriptor unix systems process unix-like also open posix operations table linux access fd handle sockets capabilities system single

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
File descriptorrelated to atsuffix operationsUnix-like0.60section
File descriptorrelated to atsuffix operationsPOSIX0.60section
File descriptorrelated to atsuffix operationsTheatsuffix0.60section
File descriptorrelated to atsuffix operationsThe0.60section
File descriptorrelated to atsuffix operationsTOCTOU0.60section
File descriptorrelated to File descriptors as capabilitiesUnix0.60section
File descriptorrelated to File descriptors as capabilitiesThey0.60section
File descriptorrelated to File descriptors as capabilitiesNote0.60section
File descriptorrelated to File descriptors as capabilitiesThis0.60section
File descriptorrelated to File descriptors as capabilitiesIn0.60section
File descriptorrelated to File descriptors as capabilitiesC-list0.60section
File descriptorrelated to Operations on a single file descriptorFDs0.60section

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