I don’t know what type of setup you have, but the following scenario, could I think produce such an effect (or else one similar to it). I have not tested this to verify, so please take it with a grain of salt. If the file/device you are opening implemented as a server application (eg NFS), … Read more
It’s an abstract reference value to a resource, often memory or an open file, or a pipe. Properly, in Windows, (and generally in computing) a handle is an abstraction which hides a real memory address from the API user, allowing the system to reorganize physical memory transparently to the program. Resolving a handle into a … Read more
There is a generic concept generally called a “handle” in the context of computer software APIs. In the comments you have probably found a link to the Wikipedia article on that subject. You are dealing with a specific implementation of a handle data type — the IBM PC/DOS file handles returned from the int 0x21 interface. If you … Read more
Usually you would use stderr for error messages. If you run a program on the command line, you can capture its stdout and/or stderr For example: will capture anything written by myprogram.exe to stdout and place it in stdout.txt. However, stuff written to stderr will not be put into stdout.txt. Thus you can capture the … Read more