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Re: fflush
if it was for only stdout, then I am wondering why should we specify
the argument. I have seen it being used on other file
descriptors also. So it is only handled by the C library and does not get
translated to any syscall??
Thanks a lot,
Raghu
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Rob Love wrote:
> 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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