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| <h3 class="section">8.87 <code>FLUSH</code> — Flush I/O unit(s)</h3> |
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| <p><a name="index-FLUSH-644"></a><a name="index-file-operation_002c-flush-645"></a> |
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| <dt><em>Description</em>:<dd>Flushes Fortran unit(s) currently open for output. Without the optional |
| argument, all units are flushed, otherwise just the unit specified. |
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| <br><dt><em>Standard</em>:<dd>GNU extension |
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| <br><dt><em>Class</em>:<dd>Subroutine |
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| <br><dt><em>Syntax</em>:<dd><code>CALL FLUSH(UNIT)</code> |
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| <br><dt><em>Arguments</em>:<dd> |
| <p><table summary=""><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="15%"><var>UNIT</var> </td><td valign="top" width="70%">(Optional) The type shall be <code>INTEGER</code>. |
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| <br><dt><em>Note</em>:<dd>Beginning with the Fortran 2003 standard, there is a <code>FLUSH</code> |
| statement that should be preferred over the <code>FLUSH</code> intrinsic. |
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| <p>The <code>FLUSH</code> intrinsic and the Fortran 2003 <code>FLUSH</code> statement |
| have identical effect: they flush the runtime library's I/O buffer so |
| that the data becomes visible to other processes. This does not guarantee |
| that the data is committed to disk. |
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| <p>On POSIX systems, you can request that all data is transferred to the |
| storage device by calling the <code>fsync</code> function, with the POSIX file |
| descriptor of the I/O unit as argument (retrieved with GNU intrinsic |
| <code>FNUM</code>). The following example shows how: |
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| <pre class="smallexample"> ! Declare the interface for POSIX fsync function |
| interface |
| function fsync (fd) bind(c,name="fsync") |
| use iso_c_binding, only: c_int |
| integer(c_int), value :: fd |
| integer(c_int) :: fsync |
| end function fsync |
| end interface |
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| ! Variable declaration |
| integer :: ret |
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| ! Opening unit 10 |
| open (10,file="foo") |
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| ! ... |
| ! Perform I/O on unit 10 |
| ! ... |
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| ! Flush and sync |
| flush(10) |
| ret = fsync(fnum(10)) |
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| ! Handle possible error |
| if (ret /= 0) stop "Error calling FSYNC" |
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