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| 89100a81 | 1 | .\" @(#)fclose.3 6.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 22f1f128 | 2 | .\" |
| 89100a81 | 3 | .TH FCLOSE 3S "" |
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4 | .AT 3 |
| 5 | .SH NAME | |
| 6 | fclose, fflush \- close or flush a stream | |
| 7 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 8 | .B #include <stdio.h> | |
| 9 | .PP | |
| 10 | .B fclose(stream) | |
| 11 | .br | |
| 12 | .SM | |
| 13 | .B FILE | |
| 14 | .B *stream; | |
| 15 | .PP | |
| 16 | .B fflush(stream) | |
| 17 | .br | |
| 18 | .SM | |
| 19 | .B FILE | |
| 20 | .B *stream; | |
| 21 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 22 | .I Fclose | |
| 23 | causes any buffers for the named | |
| 24 | .I stream | |
| 25 | to be emptied, and the file to be closed. | |
| 26 | Buffers allocated by the standard input/output system | |
| 27 | are freed. | |
| 28 | .PP | |
| 29 | .I Fclose | |
| 30 | is performed automatically upon | |
| 31 | calling | |
| e5164e6c | 32 | .IR exit (3). |
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33 | .PP |
| 34 | .I Fflush | |
| 35 | causes any buffered data for the named output | |
| 36 | .I stream | |
| 37 | to be written to that file. | |
| 38 | The stream remains open. | |
| 39 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 40 | close(2), | |
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41 | fopen(3S), |
| 42 | setbuf(3S) | |
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43 | .SH DIAGNOSTICS |
| 44 | These routines return | |
| 45 | .SM | |
| 46 | .B EOF | |
| 47 | if | |
| 48 | .I stream | |
| 49 | is not associated with an output file, or | |
| 50 | if buffered data cannot be transferred to that file. |