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    What is difference between File pointer and File Descriptor?

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      What is difference between File pointer and File Descriptor?

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      a file descriptor is an unique number managed by the system itself to identify the file opened. in your code, you don't get it. you get a FILE* (file pointer) to a copy of the opened file mounted in memory you actually never work directly on the hard disk file, but on its copy into memory


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        a file descriptor is an unique number managed by the system itself to identify the file opened. in your code, you don't get it. you get a FILE* (file pointer) to a copy of the opened file mounted in memory you actually never work directly on the hard disk file, but on its copy into memory


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        Thank you toxcct

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