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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/dup_fd.tm.html
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Synopsis

Duplicate a file descriptor

Syntax

FD_Type dup_fd (FD_Type fd)

Description

The dup_fd function duplicates and file descriptor and returns its duplicate. If the function fails, NULL will be returned and errno set accordingly.

This function is essentually a wrapper around the POSIX dup function.

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