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To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: Determine # of open files via fdesc
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 15 Oct 1999 14:12:08 +0200
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> writes:
> Each process only sees its own file descriptors. The five descriptors
> you see above belong to ls. 0 (stdin) and 2 (stderr) are whichever tty
> or pty you typed this into, 1 (stdout) is the file you redirected the
> output from ls into, 3 is /dev and 4 is /dev/fd.

OBTW, this is adequately documented in the fdesc(5) man page.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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