Create a file descriptor

c file-descriptor file-handling fdopen
mukesh picture mukesh · May 9, 2011 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

I want to create a file descriptor in C whose value i will specify in code. I have a integer variable which specifies the value of file descriptor to be created. For example i may need a file descriptor whose value is 5 and later associate that with the file named "sample.dat" .

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user3458 picture user3458 · May 9, 2011

You need dup2()

http://linux.die.net/man/2/dup

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