How to get a FILE pointer from a file descriptor and how to get a file descriptor from a FILE pointer in C on Linux?
I would like to open files by open() directly. But how to get a FILE pointer from a file descriptor in C on Linux? And how to do the reverse direction: get a file descriptor from a FILE pointer?
Get a FILE pointer from a file descriptor (e.g. fd) in C on Linux:
FILE *file = fdopen(fd, "w");
Here, the second parameter is the modes which you can choose those for fopen.
More details can be found in the man page of fdopen: fdopen manual .
Get the file descriptor from a FILE pointer (e.g. file) in C on Linux:
int fd = fileno(file);
More details can be found in the man page of fileno: fileno manual .