From cd782d77c1e90976cb6dacf6ba78ba762f145a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:39:28 +0100 Subject: Been reading another LWN issue... --- unix/file_descriptor.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 unix/file_descriptor.mdwn (limited to 'unix/file_descriptor.mdwn') 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]]. -- cgit v1.2.3