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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:07:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lets Go Canes <letsgonhlcanes AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: fstream and fflush
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Hi all.

--- Jason Mills <jmills AT cs DOT mun DOT ca> wrote:

> Thanks enlightening me. (For some reason, I always assumed flush
> meant
> flush to the disk.....)

flush flushes the output stream from the library buffer to the OS
buffer - this is generally done automatically every time you output a
newline.  There may be a delay before the OS sync's the OS buffer to
the disk.  As someone else mentioned, on Linux you've been lucky - if
you need to know the data is on-disk, you need to use sync/fsync.


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