Computerworld

Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...
OSTechNix

Linus Torvalds Patched a Major Linux “File Descriptor Theft” Vulnerability

Learn how the ptrace_may_access bug lets attackers steal root files like SSH keys and shadow file. Find out if your Linux ...
Ars Technica

wget - Bad file descriptor (failed:)

not sure if i'm doing this correctly, but i'm trying to get the jpg files from a site with wget using the recursive and glob on options.<BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode ...
Ars Technica

select(): bad File Descriptor

I am a bit new to socket programming, but I am working on making a server for educational purposes. Everything works great, have multiple connections. The problem comes when I ctrl X one of the ...
Simon Fraser University

ACCESS Procedure: Creating and Using Descriptor Files

An access descriptor only describes a DBMS table's format and contents to SAS software; that is, it is a master file of the table's information for SAS software. You cannot use an access descriptor in ...
Computerworld

Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors, Part 2

Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...