f_flush()

[FreeRTOS Embedded File System API]

header_file.h
unsigned char f_flush( F_FILE *pxFileHandle );
		

Ensure all the data that has been altered in a FAT file is comitted to the disk.

Parameters:

pxFileHandle   The handle of the file being flushed. The handle is returned by the call to f_open() used to originally open the file.

Returns:
F_NO_ERROR   All data associated with the file was comitted to the disk.

Any other value   The file could not be flushed. The return value holds the error code.

See also

f_read(), f_write(), f_open(), f_close().

Example usage:

void vSampleFunction( void ) { F_FILE *pxFile; char *pcString = "ABC"; /* Open the file afile.bin for writing. */ pxFile = f_open( "afile.bin","w" ); if( pxFile != NULL ) { /* Write three bytes to the opened file. */ f_write( pcString, strlen( pcString ), 1, pxFile ); /* Flush the file to ensure the data is commited before continuing. */ f_flush( pxFile ); /* * Other file accesses can occur here before the file is evenutally * closed using a call to f_close(). */ } } Example use of the f_flush() API function