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38 .\" @(#)fflush.3 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/29/91
40 .\" Converted for Linux, Mon Nov 29 15:22:01 1993, faith@cs.unc.edu
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43 .\" Modified 2001-10-16 by John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
45 .TH FFLUSH 3 2017-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
47 fflush \- flush a stream
51 .BI "int fflush(FILE *" stream );
55 forces a write of all user-space buffered data for the given output or update
57 via the stream's underlying write function.
59 For input streams associated with seekable files
60 (e.g., disk files, but not pipes or terminals),
62 discards any buffered data that has been fetched from the underlying file,
63 but has not been consumed by the application.
65 The open status of the stream is unaffected.
74 .\" mtk: POSIX specifies that only output streams are flushed for this case.
75 .\" Also verified for glibc by experiment.
77 For a nonlocking counterpart, see
78 .BR unlocked_stdio (3).
80 Upon successful completion 0 is returned.
85 is set to indicate the error.
90 is not an open stream, or is not open for writing.
96 for any of the errors specified for
99 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
105 Interface Attribute Value
108 T} Thread safety MT-Safe
111 C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
113 POSIX.1-2001 did not specify the behavior for flushing of input streams,
114 but the behavior is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
118 flushes only the user-space buffers provided by the C library.
119 To ensure that the data is physically stored on disk
120 the kernel buffers must be flushed too, for example, with
132 .BR unlocked_stdio (3)