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Re: fflush

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:20, Raghu R. Arur wrote:

>  So when you call fflush(fp) what exactly happens.

fflush(3) is a user-space function for flushing the stdio buffers
provided by the C library.

It has absolutely no relationship to the kernel, in any way whatsoever.

Perhaps you are thinking of sync(2) or fsync(2) ?

	Rob Love


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