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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-11-30 10:39:28 +0100
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+[[!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]].