Dealing with files that are currently opened in a program
Use this tag for questions about open file descriptors: listing them, reacting to events, etc.
For questions about selecting which program will be used when opening a file, see file-opening.
Questions tagged [open-files]
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file descriptors and /dev/fd
Are file descriptors unique across a process, or throughout the whole system. Because every file seems the use the same descriptor for stdin and stdout. Is there something special with these? How does stdin and stdout work? I realize the dev/fd,…
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If file does not get closed, will OS close it?
If a file is being opened by a process and it is not being closed by any of the processes, will the OS automatically close that open file?
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