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NAME¶
fpurge
— flush a
stream
LIBRARY¶
library “libbsd”
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <stdio.h>
(See libbsd(7) for include usage.)
int
fpurge
(FILE
*stream);
DESCRIPTION¶
The function
fpurge
()
erases any input or output buffered in the given
stream. For output streams this discards any unwritten
output. For input streams this discards any input read from the underlying
object but not yet obtained via getc(3); this includes any
text pushed back via ungetc(3).
RETURN VALUES¶
Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise,
EOF
is returned and the global variable
errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS¶
- [
EBADF
] - stream is not an open stream.
SEE ALSO¶
HISTORY¶
The fpurge
() function first appeared in
4.4BSD-Lite.
November 4, 2015 | Linux 6.4.0-150600.23.25-default |