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From: Nav Mundi <nmundi@karthika.com>
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Subject: 'fd' file descriptor help
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:18:05 -0500
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Does anyone know what the file descriptor 'fd' pointer does?  My module makes 
a system call [sys_open] to the kernal which then returns a fd value but I 
don't know what this value means or how it gets it.  Does the fd value 
signify a specific device or is it random?  Any ideas?

Thanks for your help in advance.

-Nav
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