Quick c question

Do FILE* work directly with the address of the file in the harddrive or is the file loaded into the ram and the FILE* works with that?

I mean, if I were making a small database and wanted to use a FILE* (as a member of the struct I use for the database) to the next element of the database would the FILE* still point ot the same location if I close the file and open it later?

If I remember shit correctly from my operating systems class ages ago, FILE* is just used as an index to some secret off-limits file handler array that your OS keeps track of.

Try opening a bunch of FILE*s and printing them as ints. The printed values would be more indexy than address-like.