Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

This class is a platform-independent representation of a low-level handle to an open file or socket. The static in , out, and err variables are FileDescriptor objects that represent the standard input, output, and error streams, respectively. There is no public constructor method to create a FileDescriptor object. You can obtain one with the getFD( ) method of FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, or RandomAccessFile.

public final class 
FileDescriptor  {
// Public Constructors
public 
FileDescriptor ( );  
// Public Constants
public static final FileDescriptor 
err ;  
public static final FileDescriptor 
in ;  
public static final FileDescriptor 
out ;  
// Public Instance Methods
1.1   public void 
sync ( ) throws SyncFailedException;                  native
public boolean 
valid ( );  
}

Passed To

FileInputStream.FileInputStream( ), FileOutputStream.FileOutputStream( ), FileReader.FileReader( ), FileWriter.FileWriter( ), SecurityManager.{checkRead( ), checkWrite( )}

Returned By

FileInputStream.getFD( ), FileOutputStream.getFD( ), RandomAccessFile.getFD( ), java.net.DatagramSocketImpl.getFileDescriptor( ), java.net.SocketImpl.getFileDescriptor( )

Type Of

java.net.DatagramSocketImpl.fd, java.net.SocketImpl.fd