On 04/21/2014 08:34 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:32:44PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> So, can you *please* answer this question: what do you call (i.e., >> what everyday technical language term do use for) the thing >> that sits between a file descriptor and an i-node? > > An open file. Not an unambiguous, widely understood term. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
