Is there a Windows equivalent to fdopen for HANDLEs?

Question

In Unix, if you have a file descriptor (e.g. from a socket, pipe, or inherited from your parent process), you can open a buffered I/O FILE* stream on it with fd

Answer 1

Here is a more elegant way of doing this instead of CreateFile: specify "N" in fopen(). It's a Microsoft-specific extension to fopen, but since this code is platform-specific anyway, it's ok. When called with "N", fopen adds _O_NOINHERIT flag when calling _open internally.

Based on this: Windows C Run-Time _close(fd) not closing file