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		pjmlp on April 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common interface for Linux NIC statistics I am referring to everything is a file descriptor, except when not.

jfrunyon on April 26, 2021 [–]

Cool, but a pathname is not and has never been a file descriptor, and open is an operation upon a pathname.

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