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Re: fflush

fflush(3) forces the flush of userspace data provided by c library. it
has nothing to do with the kernel. maybe you want sync(2) / fsync(2) ?

kind regards
anupam

"Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@cs.columbia.edu> writes:

>  Hi,
>
>    I was trying to trace fflush inside the kernel. But could not get much 
> information about it. is flush operation of the file system is called when 
> you call fflush. that seems to me the closest. But it is not implemented 
> for all file systems.
>
>  So when you call fflush(fp) what exactly happens.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Raghu
>
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