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 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/