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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
| commit | f3df65ce34153357d28bee621bdf49b61e68b182 (patch) | |
| tree | 25ac416b157b010ca2f942dac5c5ba0b38a924ac /unix/file_descriptor.mdwn | |
| parent | 09184ae09c44c052a207aa5c6dc8ce9cf61a343f (diff) | |
| parent | 3bbe62327128ce85829a4cb2fb429bd8f21b4d75 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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diff --git a/unix/file_descriptor.mdwn b/unix/file_descriptor.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6f8533c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/unix/file_descriptor.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!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]]. + +In a GNU Hurd system, the concept of file descriptors is based on object +handles (through [[Mach ports|microkernel/mach/port]]), and is [[implemented in +glibc|glibc/file_descriptor]]. |