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#include <stdio.h> int main() { char name[10]; for(int i=0;i<=10;i++) { printf("Who are you? "); if(fgets(name,10,stdin)!=NULL) printf("Glad to meet you, %s.\n",name); } return(0);...
Conformation asked 4/8, 2016 at 12:55

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I am using the following command to output IPs from live tcpdump capture sudo tcpdump -nn -q ip -l | awk '{print $3; fflush(stdout)}' >> ips.txt I get the following output 192.168.0.100.5...
Landbert asked 13/4, 2018 at 23:32

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How to flush the stdin?? Why is it not working in the following code snippet? #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <malloc.h> #include <fcntl.h> int main() { in...
Tigges asked 2/2, 2010 at 20:33

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#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello"); fflush(stdout); return 0; } #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello"); return 0; } I'm trying to unde...
Miso asked 11/8, 2021 at 12:6

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So a quick Google search for fflush(stdin) for clearing the input buffer reveals numerous websites warning against using it. And yet that's exactly how my CS professor taught the class to do it. H...
Strongminded asked 5/6, 2010 at 4:50

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I'm getting some weird results, while trying to write data to files in C.<br/> I thought that fclose() closes the *FILE and flushes the data from its buffer to the file.<br/> But for so...
Bartholomew asked 2/7, 2020 at 17:24

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I was wondering what happens if multiple scripts are sharing same file. I uploaded the test on remote server, where they use HDD to store data. There were 7 tests total, but the family of 6 are com...
Tideland asked 12/10, 2019 at 7:19

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I thought fsync() does fflush() internally, so using fsync() on a stream is OK. But I am getting an unexpected result when executed under network I/O. My code snippet: FILE* fp = fopen(file, "wb"...
Marcum asked 26/2, 2010 at 9:36

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man fflush on Ubuntu: For input streams associated with seekable files (e.g., disk files, but not pipes or terminals), fflush() discards any buffered data that has been fetched from the underlyi...
Bonaventure asked 7/3, 2019 at 7:36

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I am reading 'UNIX Network Programming: The Sockets Networking API' and in the example code they have an error handling function which contains the following lines: fflush(stdout); /* in case stdo...
Tridactyl asked 8/3, 2017 at 0:8

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Can anything bad happen (like undefined behavior, file corruption, etc.) if several threads concurrently call fflush() on the same FILE* variable? Clarification: I don't mean writing the file conc...
Speechless asked 20/8, 2016 at 11:36

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Can anyone please explain me about difference between fpurge(FILE *stream) and fflush(FILE *stream) in C? Both fflush() and fpurge() will discard any unwritten or unread data in the buffer. Please ...
Industrials asked 31/5, 2016 at 5:31

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I'm writing a script which does something like the following: echo -n "Doing stuff, wait for it... " do_stuff (($?==0)) && echo SUCCESS || echo FAILURE Excuse the poor bash skills. Anywa...
Restrain asked 25/4, 2016 at 18:3

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I know this is gonna be quite a stupid question, but after reading so many document about the whole "buffer" system, I can't understand why would people flush a stream but not a buffer. I have see...
Limes asked 29/5, 2015 at 22:55

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Below is sample code for using fflush(): #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <conio.h> #include <io.h> void flush(FILE *stream); int main(void) { FILE *strea...
Vinic asked 27/5, 2013 at 21:45

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Platform: windows 8.1 IDE: vs2013 use c/c++ Process A read stdout of subprocess using pipe redirect. but subprocess dont invoke fflush after printf, so processs A cant read anything from pipe bef...
Flaggy asked 20/3, 2014 at 8:12

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I have a good old C FILE file descriptor under Windows that is used by an output stream to write data to. My question is simple and yet I could not find the answer: When is the content flushed to ...
Arran asked 23/4, 2013 at 7:8

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I'm currently implementing a ping/pong buffering scheme to safely write a file to disk. I'm using C++/Boost on a Linux/CentOS machine. Now I'm facing the problem to force the actual write of the fi...
Oversize asked 13/11, 2012 at 9:41

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Should fflush() not be used to flush a buffer even if it is an output stream? What is it useful for? How do we flush a buffer in general?
Exarch asked 16/9, 2012 at 19:35

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I can't seem to figure out what's wrong with this code: #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define MAX 100 #define TRUE 1 #defi...
Amero asked 3/2, 2012 at 1:29

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i have a long run server program(say, program A) which is written in QT/c++. the program is not so stable so i decide to write a python script to restart it if it crashes. the problem is that the p...
Roulers asked 27/1, 2012 at 17:4

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I don't understand why sometimes I need to use fflush() and sometimes not. My program is segfaulting at the moment and I am debugging it with print statements. When a program segfaults, does stdou...
Overmatter asked 29/11, 2011 at 19:4

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I'm writing a large file > 7MB from an Oracle stored procedure and the requirements are to have no line termination characters (no carriage return/line feed) at the end of each record. I've writte...
Cheder asked 26/8, 2011 at 14:36
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