alrite, so I'm trying to use the select function to tail a file to see when it has information ready to be input, but it needs to know the file descriptor of the ifstream to be able to work. I've ...

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 ...

When using a large number of Virtual Hosts, Apache may run out of available file descriptors (sometimes called file handles) if each Virtual Host specifies different log files. The total number of ...

A temporary reference (typically a number) assigned by the operating system to a file that an application has asked it to open. The handle is used throughout the session to access the file. In the ...

OK, I am trying to convert a small bit of code from using old-style <fstream.h> headers to <fstream>. I am guessing that ofstream::fd() has been deprecated. In that case, what's the established method ...

Reading files is no big deal with bash: you just redirect the input to the script or pipe the output of another command into the script, or you could do it inside the script if the file names are ...