Computerworld

Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors

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 ...
Simon Fraser University

Understanding SAS/ACCESS Descriptor Files

An access descriptor contains information about the IMS-DL/I database you want to use. The information includes the IMS-DL/I database name, the IMS-DL/I field names and their default SAS formats, ...
Simon Fraser University

ACCESS Procedure: Creating and Using SAS/ACCESS Descriptor Files

An access descriptor only describes a PC file's format and contents to the SAS System; that is, it is a master description file of the PC file for the SAS System. You cannot use an access descriptor ...
Ars Technica

select(): bad File Descriptor

I am a bit new to socket programming, but I am working on making a server for educational purposes. Everything works great, have multiple connections. The problem comes when I ctrl X one of the ...
Computerworld

Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors, Part 2

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 ...