Programming Tips - Old - Can I get a Windows HANDLE from a regular fopen() FILE * handle?

Date: 2010may2 OS: Windows Language: C/C++ Q. Can I get a Windows HANDLE from a regular fopen() FILE * handle? A. This function does the trick:
#include <io.h> HANDLE GetWindowsHandle(FILE *f) { return (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle(fileno(f)); }