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What Are stdin, stdout, and stderr on Linux? (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 1 month ago by zarkanian to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. Article kept referring to them as "streams" which is meaningless in the context of Linux. Writing this article without describing or even mentioning file handles is a disservice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Really? C++ uses the word stream to refer to abstractions that are buffers for reading/writing (depending permission).

How would files and streams differ in that case?

I guess you're saying file handles can be pointing to memory instead of storage but I always think of the word "file" for data written to storage instead of ram. What makes it meaningless in the context of Linux?