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 ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

When you change an ADABAS file or NATURAL DDM, you must re-create the access descriptor(s) with the ACCESS procedure, using the same access descriptor name(s). Then you must update each view ...

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 ...

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 ...