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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2d75167da62e3486836e5f1773e5f1ab06e43fe8 (patch) | |
| tree | e44fc83e0b1419836d1b21652ad1d38b8d0af2c4 /unix/file_descriptor.mdwn | |
| parent | 217998d56f5b6424a685f8c87f2c0e924d1c89da (diff) | |
| parent | 5c5c16e265d8ef56b71f319885f32bf144bdea23 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into external_pager_mechanism
Conflicts:
microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn
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diff --git a/unix/file_descriptor.mdwn b/unix/file_descriptor.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..16e03fdf --- /dev/null +++ b/unix/file_descriptor.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +A *file descriptor* is a [[concept]] of [[UNIX]], and represents a +non-[[persistent|persistency]] handle to an object (a file, for example). With +respect to specific aspects, it is comparable to a [[capability]]. |