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Re: what's the difference between File Handle and File Descriptor?
- From: Jason Curl <j dot m dot curl at optusnet dot com dot au>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:01:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: what's the difference between File Handle and File Descriptor?
- References: <cobkmv$34c$1@sea.gmane.org>
news.gosonic.com wrote:
Thanks
One is high level (streams, file handles) the other is low level (file
descriptors).
Have a look at the difference between fopen() and open().
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