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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" Modified 2000-07-22 by Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
.\" Modified 2001-10-16 by John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
.\"
-.TH fflush 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH fflush 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
fflush \- flush a stream
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <stdio.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int fflush(FILE *_Nullable " stream );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ For output streams,
forces a write of all user-space buffered data for the given output or update
.I stream
via the stream's underlying write function.
-.PP
+.P
For input streams associated with seekable files
(e.g., disk files, but not pipes or terminals),
.BR fflush ()
discards any buffered data that has been fetched from the underlying file,
but has not been consumed by the application.
-.PP
+.P
The open status of the stream is unaffected.
-.PP
+.P
If the
.I stream
argument is NULL,
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ flushes
open output streams.
.\" mtk: POSIX specifies that only output streams are flushed for this case.
.\" Also verified for glibc by experiment.
-.PP
+.P
For a nonlocking counterpart, see
.BR unlocked_stdio (3).
.SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ is set to indicate the error.
.B EBADF
.I stream
is not an open stream, or is not open for writing.
-.PP
+.P
The function
.BR fflush ()
may also fail and set
@@ -87,12 +87,11 @@ T{
.BR fflush ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY
C89, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
-.PP
+.P
POSIX.1-2001 did not specify the behavior for flushing of input streams,
but the behavior is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
.SH NOTES