Flushes the stream. If the stream has saved any characters from the
various write() methods in a buffer, write them immediately to their
intended destination. Then, if that destination is another character or
byte stream, flush it. Thus one flush() invocation will flush all the
buffers in a chain of Writers and OutputStreams.
<p> If the intended destination of this stream is an abstraction provided
by the underlying operating system, for example a file, then flushing the
stream guarantees only that bytes previously written to the stream are
passed to the operating system for writing; it does not guarantee that
they are actually written to a physical device such as a disk drive.
Flushes the stream. If the stream has saved any characters from the various write() methods in a buffer, write them immediately to their intended destination. Then, if that destination is another character or byte stream, flush it. Thus one flush() invocation will flush all the buffers in a chain of Writers and OutputStreams.
<p> If the intended destination of this stream is an abstraction provided by the underlying operating system, for example a file, then flushing the stream guarantees only that bytes previously written to the stream are passed to the operating system for writing; it does not guarantee that they are actually written to a physical device such as a disk drive.
@throws IOException If an I/O error occurs