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ygfperson

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« on: June 29, 2005, 07:36:10 PM »
in linux (and other posix enviroments) what is the difference between the fopen and open set of file manipulating functions?
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2005, 12:34:19 AM »
Been a long time since i've messed with C, but first thing that comes to mind is that fopen is ANSI C and is a "higher level" function which returns a pointer to a FILE structure.  open is POSIX and deals will low level file descriptors.
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