file descriptor

collocation in English

meaningsoffileanddescriptor

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file
noun
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/faɪl/us
/faɪl/
any of several different types of container used to store papers, letters, and other documents in an ordered way, especially in ...
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descriptor
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈskrɪp.tə/us
/dɪˈskrɪp.tɚ/
languagespecialized
a word or phrase used to describe or refer ...
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(Definition offileanddescriptorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffile descriptor

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In practice, it is used much like afiledescriptorin a traditional operating system, but to access every object on the system.
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Its existence in the process'sfiledescriptortable is sufficient to know that the process does indeed have legitimate access to the object.
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With dnotify, a program had to use onefiledescriptorfor each directory that it was monitoring.
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If afiledescriptorthat refers to a door is sent, the system records the properties of that door in the flags word.
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The process passes thefiledescriptorto the kernel through a system call, and the kernel will access the file on behalf of the process.
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The class is afiledescriptorthat represents a source or sink (destination) of bytes.
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The file is identified by thefiledescriptorthat is obtained from a previous call to open.
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Returns afiledescriptorfrom which all events are read.
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After using the file, the process should close the file using close call, which takes thefiledescriptorof the file to be closed.
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The process itself can not read or write thefiledescriptortable directly.
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The input handling has been replaced with a reactor event model, which is more flexible than using select() on afiledescriptor.
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This allocates resources associated to the file (thefiledescriptor), and returns a handle that the process will use to refer to that file.
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Inside the sandbox, the program sees the channel as afiledescriptor.
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Of note is that the asynchronous events were gathered via normalfiledescriptorread operations, and that such reading was itself capable of being made asynchronous.
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Thisfiledescriptor"is" a capability.
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