What is a file [handle]?  This is one of the various kinds of [Tcl handles] which is returned
by [Tcl] commands such as [open], [[add other commands here that return 
this type of thing - perhaps relating to sockets, channels, other?]]

They are a symbolic representation of an underlying operating system construct
that represents an open input or output file/device. Examples:

 set    handle  [open $filename w]
 puts  $handle  $line
 close $handle



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The Tcl man pages use the term [channel].

Unix calls the underlying construct a file descriptor.

[MHo] 2017-05-19: I noticed that file handles are "recycled", so if a specific handle is closed, short after that a newly opened file gets the same handle.


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'''[ak] - 2017-05-19 20:43:35'''

That is, I believe, because of unix recycling the underlying file descriptor.
I am not sure if it applies to Windows as well.
The recycling of the standard channels OTOH is something Tcl does by itself
IOW
======tcl
  close stdout
  open some/file
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The channel for some/file now is "stdout".
Works for sockets, pipes, etc.
The first new channel after closing one of stdout, stderr, stdin
becomes that channel.

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