FFLUSH(3) Linux Programmer's Manual FFLUSH(3)

NAME

fflush, fpurge - flush a stream

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h> int fflush( FILE *stream); int fpurge( FILE *stream);

DESCRIPTION

The function fflush forces a write of all buffered data for the given output or update stream via the stream's underlying write function. The open status of the stream is unaffected. If the stream argument is NULL, fflush flushes all open output streams. (Does this happen under Linux) The function fpurge erases any input or output buffered in the given stream. For output streams this discards any unwritten output. For input streams this discards any input read from the underlying object but not yet obtained via getc(3); this includes any text pushed back via ungetc.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, EOF is returned and the global variable errno is set to indi- cate the error.

ERRORS

EBADF Stream is not an open stream, or, in the case of fflush, not a stream open for writing. The function fflush may also fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the routine write(2).

BUGS

Linux may not support fpurge.

SEE ALSO

write, fopen, fclose, setbuf,


STANDARDS

The fflush function conforms to ANSI C3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').

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