<!--$Id: alive.so,v 1.2 2006/03/15 19:39:19 bostic Exp $--> <!--Copyright (c) 1997,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.--> <!--See the file LICENSE for redistribution information.--> <html> <head> <title>Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Release 4.5: DB->set_isalive</title> <meta name="description" content="Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit."> <meta name="keywords" content="embedded,database,programmatic,toolkit,btree,hash,hashing,transaction,transactions,locking,logging,access method,access methods,Java,C,C++"> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <table width="100%"><tr valign=top> <td><b><dl><dt>Berkeley DB Reference Guide:<dd>Upgrading Berkeley DB Applications</dl></b></td> <td align=right><a href="../upgrade.4.5/deprecate.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../upgrade.4.5/elect.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p align=center><b>Release 4.5: DB->set_isalive</b></p> <p>In previous releases, the function specified to the <a href="../../api_c/env_set_isalive.html">DB_ENV->set_isalive</a> method did not take a flags parameter. In the Berkeley DB 4.5 release, an additional flags argument has been added: <a href="../../api_c/env_set_isalive.html#DB_MUTEX_PROCESS_ONLY">DB_MUTEX_PROCESS_ONLY</a>.</p> <p>Applications configuring an is-alive function should add a flags argument to the function, and change the function to ignore any thread ID and return the status of just the process, when the <a href="../../api_c/env_set_isalive.html#DB_MUTEX_PROCESS_ONLY">DB_MUTEX_PROCESS_ONLY</a> flag is specified.</p> <table width="100%"><tr><td><br></td><td align=right><a href="../upgrade.4.5/deprecate.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../upgrade.4.5/elect.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p><font size=1>Copyright (c) 1996,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.</font> </body> </html>