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 ...

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 ...

A temporary reference (typically a number) assigned by the operating system to a file that an application has asked it to open. The handle is used throughout the session to access the file. In the ...

Yeah...<BR>so I am having some troubles finding the process that's taking up all those file handles. The setup is complex, lots of processes calling each other etc ...

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 ...