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From: cwong@charlie.coyote.trw.com (Chun Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: file descriptor vs file handle
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Date: 26 Feb 91 02:43:01 GMT
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Can someone distinguish the differences between a file descriptor and
a file handle?  I know that creat returns a file handle whereas fopen
returns a file descriptor.  What's the difference?  Are they interchangeable?

-C. Wong