#include <db.h>

int
DB_MPOOLFILE->open(DB_MPOOLFILE *mpf,
    char *file, u_int32_t flags, int mode, size_t pagesize);

The DB_MPOOLFILE->open method opens a file in the shared memory buffer pool.

The DB_MPOOLFILE->open method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.

• The file parameter is the name of the file to be opened. If file is NULL, a private temporary file is created that cannot be shared with any other process (although it may be shared with other threads of control in the same process).

When using a Unicode build on Windows (the default), the file argument will be interpreted as a UTF-8 string, which is equivalent to ASCII for Latin characters.

• The flags parameter must be set to 0 or by bitwise inclusively OR'ing together one or more of the following values:
  DB_CREATE
  • Create any underlying files, as necessary. If the files do not already exist and the DB_CREATE flag is not specified, the call will fail.
  DB_DIRECT
  • If set and supported by the system, turn off system buffering of the file to avoid double caching.
  DB_MULTIVERSION
  • Open the file with support for multiversion concurrency control. Calls to DB_MPOOLFILE->get which dirty pages will cause copies to be made in the cache.
  DB_NOMMAP
  • Always copy this file into the local cache instead of potentially mapping it into process memory (see the description of the DB_ENV->set_mp_mmapsize method for further information).
  DB_ODDFILESIZE
  • Attempts to open files which are not a multiple of the page size in length will fail, by default. If the DB_ODDFILESIZE flag is set, any partial page at the end of the file will be ignored and the open will proceed.
  DB_RDONLY
  • Open any underlying files for reading only. Any attempt to write the file using the pool functions will fail, regardless of the actual permissions of the file.
  
  

• On Windows systems, the mode parameter is ignored.

  On UNIX systems or in IEEE/ANSI Std 1003.1 (POSIX) environments, files created by DB_MPOOLFILE->open are created with mode mode (as described in chmod(2)) and modified by the process' umask value at the time of creation (see umask(2)). Created files are owned by the process owner; the group ownership of created files is based on the system and directory defaults, and is not further specified by Berkeley DB. System shared memory segments created by DB_MPOOLFILE->open are created with mode mode, unmodified by the process' umask value. If mode is 0, DB_MPOOLFILE->open will use a default mode of readable and writable by both owner and group.

• The pagesize parameter is the size, in bytes, of the unit of transfer between the application and the cache, although it is not necessarily the unit of transfer between the cache and the underlying filesystem.

The DB_MPOOLFILE->open method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors:

• If the file has already been entered into the pool, and the pagesize value is not the same as when the file was entered into the pool, or the length of the file is not zero or a multiple of the pagesize; the DB_RDONLY flag was specified for an in-memory pool; or if an invalid flag value or parameter was specified.

• The maximum number of open files has been reached.