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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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parent | Adding debian version 6.7-2. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man3/fflush.3 b/man3/fflush.3 deleted file mode 100644 index 25aa47c..0000000 --- a/man3/fflush.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,115 +0,0 @@ -'\" t -.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. -.\" All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by -.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, -.\" on Information Processing Systems. -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-4-Clause-UC -.\" -.\" @(#)fflush.3 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/29/91 -.\" -.\" Converted for Linux, Mon Nov 29 15:22:01 1993, faith@cs.unc.edu -.\" -.\" 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 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -fflush \- flush a stream -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <stdio.h> -.P -.BI "int fflush(FILE *_Nullable " stream ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -For output streams, -.BR fflush () -forces a write of all user-space buffered data for the given output or update -.I stream -via the stream's underlying write function. -.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. -.P -The open status of the stream is unaffected. -.P -If the -.I stream -argument is NULL, -.BR fflush () -flushes -.I all -open output streams. -.\" mtk: POSIX specifies that only output streams are flushed for this case. -.\" Also verified for glibc by experiment. -.P -For a nonlocking counterpart, see -.BR unlocked_stdio (3). -.SH RETURN VALUE -Upon successful completion 0 is returned. -Otherwise, -.B EOF -is returned and -.I errno -is set to indicate the error. -.SH ERRORS -.TP -.B EBADF -.I stream -is not an open stream, or is not open for writing. -.P -The function -.BR fflush () -may also fail and set -.I errno -for any of the errors specified for -.BR write (2). -.SH ATTRIBUTES -For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see -.BR attributes (7). -.TS -allbox; -lbx lb lb -l l l. -Interface Attribute Value -T{ -.na -.nh -.BR fflush () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe -.TE -.SH STANDARDS -C11, POSIX.1-2008. -.SH HISTORY -C89, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. -.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 -Note that -.BR fflush () -flushes only the user-space buffers provided by the C library. -To ensure that the data is physically stored on disk -the kernel buffers must be flushed too, for example, with -.BR sync (2) -or -.BR fsync (2). -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR fsync (2), -.BR sync (2), -.BR write (2), -.BR fclose (3), -.BR fileno (3), -.BR fopen (3), -.BR fpurge (3), -.BR setbuf (3), -.BR unlocked_stdio (3) |