On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 07:32:27PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > You won't find the words 'IO channel' in POSIX, but I refuse > to use the term they have chosen instead - 'file description'. Yes, > alongside with 'file descriptor', in the contexts where the distinction > between these notions is quite important. What I tend to do is use the term "struct file" instead. The "file descriptor" literally is an integer index into an array of "struct file" pointers. "struct file" is how things are actually implemented in Linux and most Unix systems. And while it's admittedly ugly to use an implementation detail as an abstract term, it's infinitely less ugly than Posix's "file description". :-) - Ted
