Win32: Get a Windows HANDLE from a regular fopen() FILE * handle

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Date: 2010may2 OS: Windows Language: C/C++ Q. Win32: Get a Windows HANDLE from a regular fopen() FILE * handle A. This function can do that:

#include <io.h> HANDLE GetWindowsHandle(FILE *f) { return (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle(fileno(f)); }