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