关于文件描述符的更多要点:

文件描述符(FD)是非负整数(0,1,2，…)，它们与所打开的文件相关联。 0、1、2是标准FD，对应于程序启动时默认为shell打开的STDIN_FILENO、STDOUT_FILENO和STDERR_FILENO(在unistd.h中定义)。 FD是按顺序分配的，这意味着尽可能低的未分配整数值。 特定进程的FD可以在/proc/$pid/ FD(在基于Unix的系统上)中看到。

这里提供的所有答案都很棒，这是我的版本

文件描述符是非负整数，充当“文件”或I/O资源(如管道、套接字或数据流)的抽象句柄。这些描述符帮助我们与这些I/O资源进行交互，并使使用它们变得非常容易。I/O系统对于用户进程来说是一个字节流(I/O流)。Unix进程使用描述符(小的无符号整数)来引用I/O流。与I/O操作相关的系统调用以一个描述符作为参数。

有效的文件描述符范围从0到可配置的最大描述符数(ulimit， /proc/sys/fs/file-max)。内核为FD表的std输入(0)，std输出(1)和std错误(2)分配desc.。如果文件打开失败，fd返回-1。

当进程成功请求打开一个文件时，内核返回一个文件描述符，该描述符指向内核全局文件表中的一个条目。文件表项包含文件的inode、字节偏移量和该数据流的访问限制(只读、只写等)等信息。

除了以上所有简化的回答。

如果使用bash脚本处理文件，最好使用文件描述符。

例如: 如果你想读写文件"test.txt"，使用文件描述符如下所示:

FILE=$1 # give the name of file in the command line
exec 5<>$FILE # '5' here act as the file descriptor

# Reading from the file line by line using file descriptor
while read LINE; do
    echo "$LINE"
done <&5

# Writing to the file using descriptor
echo "Adding the date: `date`" >&5 
exec 5<&- # Closing a file descriptor

In simple words, when you open a file, the operating system creates an entry to represent that file and store the information about that opened file. So if there are 100 files opened in your OS then there will be 100 entries in OS (somewhere in kernel). These entries are represented by integers like (...100, 101, 102....). This entry number is the file descriptor. So it is just an integer number that uniquely represents an opened file for the process. If your process opens 10 files then your Process table will have 10 entries for file descriptors.

类似地，当您打开一个网络套接字时，它也由一个整数表示，称为套接字描述符。 我希望你能理解。

文件描述符(FD):

In Linux/Unix, everything is a file. Regular file, Directories, and even Devices are files. Every File has an associated number called File Descriptor (FD). Your screen also has a File Descriptor. When a program is executed the output is sent to File Descriptor of the screen, and you see program output on your monitor. If the output is sent to File Descriptor of the printer, the program output would have been printed. Error Redirection : Whenever you execute a program/command at the terminal, 3 files are always open standard input standard output standard error. These files are always present whenever a program is run. As explained before a file descriptor, is associated with each of these files. File                                        File Descriptor Standard Input STDIN              0 Standard Output STDOUT       1 Standard Error STDERR          2 For instance, while searching for files, one typically gets permission denied errors or some other kind of errors. These errors can be saved to a particular file. Example 1

$ ls mydir 2>错误文件.txt

标准错误的文件描述符是2。 如果没有任何名为mydir的目录，则命令的输出将保存到文件errorfile.txt 使用"2>"将错误输出重定向到名为"errorfile.txt"的文件 因此，程序输出不会充满错误。 我希望你得到了答案。

A file descriptor is an opaque handle that is used in the interface between user and kernel space to identify file/socket resources. Therefore, when you use open() or socket() (system calls to interface to the kernel), you are given a file descriptor, which is an integer (it is actually an index into the processes u structure - but that is not important). Therefore, if you want to interface directly with the kernel, using system calls to read(), write(), close() etc. the handle you use is a file descriptor.

系统调用上覆盖了一个抽象层，即stdio接口。这比基本的系统调用提供了更多的功能/特性。对于这个接口，您获得的不透明句柄是一个FILE*，它由fopen()调用返回。有很多很多函数使用stdio接口fprintf()， fscanf()， fclose()，它们让你的生活更简单。在C语言中，stdin、stdout和stderr分别是FILE*，在UNIX中分别映射到文件描述符0、1和2。