 | | Previous chapters discussed the regular file operations: creating, opening, and closing files; reading and writing data; removing files; renaming files; setting file permissions; and so forth. They also discussed some common operations on file descriptors, such as setting the read/write offset and duplicating a file descriptor. However, there are also a number of less common, yet nevertheless important, operations that you can perform when circumstances warrant. These special-purpose file operations are the subject of this chapter. | |
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