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Is it guaranteed that a file descriptor will be created when a process accesses a file? Specifically in /proc/pid/fd

I am creating an ebpf program that has a tracepoint on the syscall read(). The purpose of the program is to count how many times a file is read. My current method to trace this is as follows: When ...
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same fd in multiple epoll instances for seperate writing and reading threads

can we use the same fd in multiple epollfds? I mean one epoll instance for catching EPOLLIN, one epoll instance for catching EPOLLOUT. for example: int fd = ... // the file descriptor int epoll_reader ...
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Track from which computers a file has been saved

Is there any way to track from which computer (username) a certain file has been modified? From right click > Properties > Details you can see the creator of the file, but I would like to see ...
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How to find reason of rising count of NGINX open descriptors?

From time to time on the production server rise count of NGINX open descriptors. After that queue of connections is filled up. Also CPU usage rise to the max. This stops automatically after 1 minute. ...
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I made a file descriptor and want the output on console (stdout) and this new fd - how?

I created a fd with exec and like to post the output on the new fd 3 and the stdout 1 - in my case the console. I thought it's simple to concat this but wasn't able to find the correct syntax. I ...
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Safari tabs, NSPOSIXErrorDomain:24 and file descriptors

I have a serious problem with file descriptors and I have tried everything. My laptop: MacBook Pro 13" 2018 with touchbar, i5, 16 Gb RAM, 512SSD. MacOS 11.3.1. Recently Chrome just starts to ...
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How to fix open file descriptors of a running process after device unplug?

I have a process running that reads/writes to a file on my nvme /nvmedisk/file. My nvme disk failed for some reason and it disappeared from lsblk but was listed with lspci. I manually rebound it echo ...
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rsync + failed on error with Bad file descriptor

usually we not have this issue so its very rare! but today we got the following error when we are using rsync to copy files . when files - pkg_gh are with 1-3G size the error is like this Warning: ...
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How to add more information to the details page of a file in Windows explorer

In my previous company, we were working with GIT, which uses hashing technology for identifying purposes. I remember that the commit hash of a file was present in the details of a file (open a file in ...
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Read console output without redirect or pipe

Is there a way to read a command’s console output without redirecting or piping its STDOUT/STDERR? The problem with redirects or pipes is that some commands behave differently when their STDOUT and/or ...
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"Upload" pipe as if it were a regular file

Suppose I want to tar and compress a file for upload to Google Drive or something, but all without ever saving an intermediate tarball (e.g. because of a lack of disk space and/or the disk is read-...
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what is the right approach to count the open files

what is the real way to verify open files what we do is that lsof | sort | uniq >/tmp/file so /tmp/file include all open files and the number of open files can be identified by wc -l /tmp/...
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Cannot move file from Ext4 to exFAT if title contains colon (:)

I have a 1TB SSD that I've partitioned in half into Ext4/exFAT. The Ext4 is for better interop with Ubuntu 18.04 (my OS) and the exFAT is for better portability with other systems. I installed exfat-...
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'Bad file descriptor', check disk found no errors

I copied two .MTS video files from an SD card to an external drive, over USB 3.0. One file was ok, the other did not get a thumbnail and attempting to access it bsplayer froze and could not be ...
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tcsh closes file descriptors

I have a program that is being launched with a tcsh script. I would like to communicate with that process trough pipes (not named pipes) created by a parent process. However, it looks like tcsh closes ...
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Why doesn't piping work for a command that expects stdin?

So, I was looking to take the output of unzip -Z1 into an array and found this answer; their first option, using mapfile and process substitution WITH input redirection, works a charm. But then I ...
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File descriptor opened once but closed many times; why the discrepancy?

I was trying to use process substitution and come across the following example: exec 3>&1 tar cf /dev/fd/4 $directory_name 4>&1 >&3 3>&- | bzip2 -c > file.tar.bz2 3>&...
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I am having trouble understanding pipes and their implememnation in xv6

I am studying Operating Systems on my own from the MOOC lectures available online and wanted to work on xv6. I was reading the Documentation on xv6 and in chapter 0 when it is talked about pipes (pg. ...
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How to forcibly delete or close opened file?

Theoretical question. I have a network with 2 PC, running Windows. One PC is sharing a samba folder with video file, and i've opened up that file on second PC and started streaming video in infinite ...
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Can we say that processes (with or without subprocesses) are totally reflected in their (descriptive) files?

Can we say that a whole "series" of files in a process (as represented respectively by file descriptors) directly reflect this process and possible sub processes of it, so that taking a respective ...
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Why lsof -p and just lsof return drastically different results?

I currently have set a open files limit of 100000 but lsof reports that it's close to running out. Running lsof -n | awk '{print $2'} | sort | uniq -c | sort -n results in: 1 PID 90321 3979 ...
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UNIX redirecting to a file without writing permission system handling

I am learning the UNIX environment and have a question.. When it comes to redirecting a std error to a file, what happens if the file we redirect to has writing permissions denied to the user? ...
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Tool to connect to a file descriptor for I/O

I'm looking for a unix tool which can connect me to a specific file descriptor and do some I/O operations on it, assuming that the user permissions are valid. What could I look to use?
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Output to a file using file descriptor

I was wondering if it's possible to redirect output of one process (in OS X/ Linux) to another process if I know the fd of another process. For example: I open a file using vim: vim /tmp/test. This ...
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Other ways to increase max open files?

I have an application which keeps giving me the following error. tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files I have already followed all the advice I've been able to find ...
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change descriptor when renaming file linux [closed]

I got a programm in CentOS which writes its log to a file. When I rename it, the programm still writes to it. Is there a way to change that file descriptor without restarting the programm?
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Number of max open files for a process stays low

I have a process running on a ubuntu under a user which its ulimit is 400000 for both -Hn and -Sn options. The /etc/security/limits.conf value for that user is 100000. However, when I execute cat /...
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what are sane open file descriptor limits on linux?

Where can I get good guidance on sane values for open file descriptor limits on linux. We have users asking for massive numbers as their limits and I am unsure of the impact of this and what should ...
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Is it possible to apply special restrictions for a content of a directory?

I want restrict permissions to the content of a directory /abc/def/: disable links (symbolic or hard) limit the number of write permissions pointing to the same file (e.g. to 1, so only one process ...
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What is file descriptor 10?

What is file descriptor 10? Real-world example (where standard output is ignored, standard error redirected to standard output and data from file descriptor 10 is redirected to standard output) that ...
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Find out what app is using a file under Windows [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Windows 7: File In Use when deleting file Sometimes I can't delete a file because it's being used by some unknown applications. How can I find out what apps?
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An Application to describe .patch files

Do you know any application that be able to describe .patch files? I mean an application that be able to get .patch file & give me a human readable of the changes it make on files so I'll be able ...
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Increase the maximum number of open file descriptors in Snow Leopard?

I am trying to do something that requires a large number of file descriptors sudo ulimit -n 12288 is as high as Snow Leopard wants to go; beyond this results in /usr/bin/ulimit: line 4: ulimit: ...
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ulimit soft limit for file descriptors - for a non-root user on CentOS 5.6

I am needing to increase the soft limit for "file descriptors", and make it effective for a non-root user (lets say user1). Ran these commands, while logged in as user1: >ulimit -a core ...
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tail -f not tracking file changes

I was recently looking into using tail -f to monitor some text files like so: tail -f /var/sometext. However, when I did some testing, it doesn't seem to work. What I did was I created a new file ...
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How many file descriptors accessing a given file?

On linux, is there a way to count the number of file descriptors open to a some file?
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Meaning of FDSize in /proc/PID/status

I'm looking for a way to find out the open FD limit under Ubuntu machines which doesn't have the /proc/PID/limits, namely EC2 machines. I have been looking into /proc/PID/limits, and found the the ...