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 ...

On July 30, Al Viro sent a patch set to the linux-fsdevel mailing list with a comprehensive cover letter explaining his recent work on ensuring that the kernel's internal representation of file ...

Once upon a time, operating systems did not have to worry about hardware coming and going at awkward times. Whatever peripherals were bolted into the box when the system booted could be counted on to ...

OK, I am trying to convert a small bit of code from using old-style <fstream.h> headers to <fstream>. I am guessing that ofstream::fd() has been deprecated. In that case, what's the established method ...

It's a good idea to make sure you understand the anatomy of a VMware VM. Let's go over the basics: Though there are many types of VMware VM files, the primary three are .nvram files, .vmx files and ...

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 ...