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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/fflush.3')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man3/fflush.3 b/man3/fflush.3 index a26c3e8..25aa47c 100644 --- a/man3/fflush.3 +++ b/man3/fflush.3 @@ -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 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .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 |