C fopen vs open?

Question

Is there any reason (other than syntactic ones) that you'd want to use FILE *fdopen(int fd, const char *mode);or FILE *fopen(const char *path, const char *mode);instead of int open(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode);when using C in a Linux environment?

Answer 1

open is used primarily for opening a serial port for RS232 comminications.

It handles BINARY data and is used to communicate with a device or other

piece of hardware ( ex. printer, serial modem)

fopen is used to open a data file on the disk