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| From | John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: fflush |
| Date | 2011-09-01 20:23 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <j3opkm$649$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <4e5fe3b1$0$27973$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net> |
In <4e5fe3b1$0$27973$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:
> Where is the right place to put fflush in a file IO operation? Right
> before fclose? I never have really used it to flush buffers only to flush
> stdout. Is it a good idea to use fflush all the time?
Closing the file automatically flushes the output, so calling fflush right
before closing the file won't accomplish anything.
Fflush is typically used when you want to ensure that some output gets
written to the file RIGHT NOW but aren't ready to close the file yet.
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fflush "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2011-09-01 15:57 -0400
Re: fflush Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-09-01 20:09 +0000
Re: fflush John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-09-01 20:23 +0000
Re: fflush sandeep <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-09-01 20:49 +0000
Re: fflush Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-02 10:59 -0400
Re: fflush Kleuskes & Moos <kleuske@somewhere.else.net> - 2011-09-01 22:06 +0000
Re: fflush Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-02 11:05 -0400
Re: fflush Kleuskes & Moos <kleuske@somewhere.else.net> - 2011-09-02 17:04 +0000
Re: fflush Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-01 14:55 -0600
Re: fflush pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-01 19:14 -0400
Re: fflush Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-01 17:27 -0600
Re: fflush pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-01 19:33 -0400
Re: fflush Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-09-02 01:36 +0000
Re: fflush Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-02 11:08 -0400
Re: fflush Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-02 09:35 -0600
Re: fflush Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-03 07:24 +0100
Re: fflush gordonb.47ba6@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-09-02 21:42 -0500
Re: fflush Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2011-09-02 21:01 -0600
Re: fflush Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-02 00:34 +0100
Re: fflush mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:57 -0700
Re: fflush David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2011-09-09 01:28 -0400
Re: fflush gordonb.o3gsp@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-09-02 21:36 -0500
Re: fflush Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-03 12:05 -0700
Re: fflush Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-06 12:51 -0400
Re: fflush Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-06 10:51 -0700
Re: fflush "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-09-03 10:13 +0200
Re: fflush "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-09-09 08:19 +0200
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