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DB->fd |
#include <db.h>int DB->fd(DB *db, int *fdp);
The DB->fd method provides access to a file descriptor representative of the underlying database. A file descriptor referring to the same file will be returned to all processes that call DB->open with the same file parameter.
This file descriptor may be safely used as a parameter to the fcntl(2) and flock(2) locking functions.
The DB->fd method only supports a coarse-grained form of locking. Applications should instead use the Berkeley DB lock manager where possible.
The DB->fd method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.
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