Process file descriptors (pidfd) provide a race-free way to manage processes on Linux, maintaining a persistent reference to a process using a file descriptor rather than a numeric process ID (PID) ...

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However this doesn't seem to be the case, as if Linux (EXT3) or Windows (NTFS) are used, no data loss ever occurs even if the system is left running for many weeks in a row.

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One difference between these shells with respect to user-defined file descriptors, however, is that the Korn shell (on Solaris anyway) only allows us to assign file descriptors 0 through 9 while ...