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file descriptor -- Definition A file descriptor is an integer that indexes an area in COHERENT's internal list of file descriptors. COHERENT system calls, including open(), close(), and lseek(), use it to describe a file. Please note that a file descriptor is not the same as a FILE structure, which is used by the STDIO routines fopen(), fclose(), or fread(). See Also file, FILE, Programming COHERENT