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34 .\" @(#)fflush.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
48 .Fn fflush "FILE *stream"
50 .Fn fpurge "FILE *stream"
54 forces a write of all buffered data for the given output or update
56 via the stream's underlying write function.
57 The open status of the stream is unaffected.
70 erases any input or output buffered in the given
72 For output streams this discards any unwritten output.
73 For input streams this discards any input read from the underlying object
74 but not yet obtained via
76 this includes any text pushed back via
79 Upon successful completion 0 is returned.
82 is returned and the global variable
84 is set to indicate the error.
89 is not an open stream, or, in the case of
91 not a stream open for writing.
98 for any of the errors specified for the routine