cookie

A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar and some type of oil or fat. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc.

In most English-speaking countries except for the United States, crunchy cookies are called biscuits. Many Canadians also use this term. Chewier [耐嚼的] biscuits are sometimes called cookies even in the United Kingdom. Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date [枣] squares or bars.

Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits, with marshmallow or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. Cookies are often served with beverages such as milk, coffee or tea and sometimes "dunked", an approach which releases more flavour from confections by dissolving the sugars, while also softening their texture. Factory-made cookies are sold in grocery stores, convenience stores and vending machines.

A cracker is a thin, crisp biscuit. A soda [梳打] cracker is a thin, square, salty biscuit.

In computing, a magic cookie, or just cookie for short, is a token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, where the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program. The contents are opaque and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the cookie data back to the sender or perhaps another program at a later time. The cookie is often used like a ticket – to identify a particular event or transaction.

我个人认为，handle就是一种cookie. Linux下open()返回的handle好像基本上是从3开始+1，0, 1, 2分别是stdin (standard input), stdout, stderr. Windows下CreateWindow()返回的HWND (Handle of Window)都是挺大的、不连续的数，"not meaningful." 调用ShowWindow()时要把HWND传回去，"passes the cookie data back".

An HTTP cookie (web cookie, browser cookie) is a small piece of data that a server sends to a user's web browser. The browser may store the cookie and send it back to the same server with later requests. Typically, an HTTP cookie is used to tell if two requests come from the same browser—keeping a user logged in, for example. It remembers stateful information for the stateless HTTP protocol.

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