Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

1
  • File descriptors are not “an extension of stdio”; stdio file pointers are a wrapper around file descriptors. File descriptors came first, and they are the fundamental Unix I/O handles. But, otherwise, this is a good point. Commented Aug 11, 2017 at 18:51