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  • The operating system abstraction you refer to as "handles" are better referred to as "file descriptors". It's hard to tell, given the state of Microsoft's documentation, but "descriptors" and "handles" are probably different at some level. Commented Apr 1, 2011 at 15:35
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    One way to work around this is to additionally log to a fifo and then xconsole from the fifo. Commented Mar 24, 2012 at 3:31