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<p>should have three standard POSIX file descriptors, corresponding to the three <a href="page.php?w=standard_streams">standard streams</a>:</p>

<p><big>Overview</big></p>
<p>In the traditional implementation of Unix, file descriptors index into a per-process <b><i>' maintained by the kernel, that in turn indexes into a system-wide table of files opened by all processes, called the </i></b>'. This table records the mode with which the file (or other resource) has been opened: for reading, writing, appending, and possibly other modes.  It also indexes into</p><p>
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