what's the difference between File Handle and File Descriptor?

Jason Curl j.m.curl@optusnet.com.au
Sun Nov 28 21:28:00 GMT 2004


news.gosonic.com wrote:
> Thanks

One is high level (streams, file handles) the other is low level (file 
descriptors).

Have a look at the difference between fopen() and open().

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