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 > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- ...mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously or discretely in groups and in fields. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
