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Re: fflush

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 01:44, Raghu R. Arur wrote:
>   if it was for only stdout, then I am wondering why should we specify 
> the argument.

I did not say stdout.  I said stdio.  As in, standard C I/O.  All that
stuff that takes a FILE*.

> 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??

Right.  Like I said, it just flushes the buffer that the C library
maintains.  It has no relationship to the kernel.

	Rob Love



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