Descriptor in a sentence as a noun

A small compendium of errors...For starter, a | b |c doesn't create two file descriptors.

Too bad the comments aren't just exposed as a file descriptor somewhere ..

Persons B and C download that descriptor and feed it to Dropship, which tricks Dropbox into thinking that they also own copies of the file.

For regular files, and in fact all method of creating file descriptor, except pipes, opening in RW mode creates a single descriptor.

He's not complaining that you use "open" to get a file's descriptor and "pipe" to get a pipe's two descriptors, any more than it's weird to get a socket descriptor for "socket".

One process can open a listening socket and share it with an unrelated process via file-descriptor passing.

The
inevitable file descriptor limits on Linux means that for every database connection you make, you use up one of the 1,024 file descriptors that are allocated to your process by default.

The number of package I've seen that have init scripts that don't properly stop or start the daemon, or don't check the pid file and or subsys lock file; or daemons that don't properly chdir, or don't release an errant file descriptor, make me want to scream.

I usually run across variants of the descriptor "bro-ish" as derogatory, not something people actually want to call themselves; for example, "brostep" is a derogatory term for a subgenre of dubstep that dubstep purists don't like, not something people proudly call their own music.

Descriptor definitions

noun

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"

See also: form signifier

noun

a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system