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FFLUSH(3) Linux Programmer's Manual FFLUSH(3)
fflush - flush a stream
#include <stdio.h>
int fflush(FILE *stream);
For output streams, fflush() forces a write of all user-space buffered data
for the given output or update stream via the stream's underlying write
function. For input streams, fflush() discards any buffered data that has
been fetched from the underlying file, but has not been by the application.
The open status of the stream is unaffected.
If the stream argument is NULL, fflush() flushes all open output streams.
For a non-locking counterpart, see unlocked_stdio(3).
Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, EOF is returned and
errno is set to indicate the error.
EBADF Stream is not an open stream, or is not open for writing.
The function fflush() may also fail and set errno for any of the errors
specified for write(2).
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
The standards do not specify the behavior for input streams. Most other
implementations behave the same as Linux.
Note that fflush() only flushes the user space buffers provided by the C
library. To ensure that the data is physically stored on disk the kernel
buffers must be flushed too, for example, with sync(2) or fsync(2).
fsync(2), sync(2), write(2), fclose(3), fopen(3), setbuf(3), unlocked_stdio(3)
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GNU 2009-09-06 FFLUSH(3)