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programming, operating system An integer that identifies an
open
file within a
process. This number is obtained as a
result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or
close a file would take the file descriptor as an input
parameter.
are small integers which index a table of open files. In
Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the
respectively.
(1998-02-06)