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            <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="envopen"></a>DbEnv::open()</h2>
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      <pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db_cxx.h&gt;

int
DbEnv::open(const char *db_home, u_int32_t flags, int mode); </pre>
      <p>
         The <code class="methodname">DbEnv::open()</code> method opens a Berkeley
         DB environment.  It provides a structure for creating a consistent
         environment for processes using one or more of the features of
         Berkeley DB.
    </p>
      <p>
         The <code class="methodname">DbEnv::open()</code> method <span>
            
            <span>
                method either returns a non-zero error value or throws an
                exception that encapsulates a non-zero error value on
                failure, and returns 0 on success.
            </span>
        </span> If
         <code class="methodname">DbEnv::open()</code> fails, the 
         <a class="xref" href="envclose.html" title="DbEnv::close()">DbEnv::close()</a>  method must be
         called to discard the <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5.  The DbEnv Handle">DbEnv</a>
         handle.
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            result in log file corruption. This can occur if the operating
            system experiences an unclean shutdown when a log file is being
            created.  Please see  
            <a href="../../programmer_reference/transapp_journal.html" class="olink">Using
                Recovery on Journaling Filesystems</a>
            in the <em class="citetitle">Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference Guide</em> for more information.
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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            <div>
              <h3 class="title"><a id="idp7011736"></a>Parameters</h3>
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          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp6971408"></a>db_home</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
                  The <span class="bold"><strong>db_home</strong></span>
                  parameter is the database environment's home
                  directory.  For more information on 
                  <span class="bold"><strong>db_home</strong></span>, and filename
                  resolution in general, see <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_naming.html" class="olink">Berkeley DB File Naming</a>.  The
                  environment variable 
                  <span class="bold"><strong>DB_HOME</strong></span> may be used as the
                  path of the database home, as described in
                  <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_naming.html" class="olink">Berkeley DB File Naming</a>.
             </p>
          <p>
                 When using a Unicode build on Windows (the default), the 
                 <span class="bold"><strong>db_home</strong></span> argument
                 will be interpreted as a UTF-8 string, which is equivalent to ASCII for
                 Latin characters.
             </p>
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        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <div class="titlepage">
            <div>
              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp7009408"></a>flags</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
                The <span class="bold"><strong>flags</strong></span> parameter specifies
                the subsystems that are initialized and how the application's
                environment affects Berkeley DB file naming, among other things.
                The <span class="bold"><strong>flags</strong></span> parameter must be set
                to 0 or by bitwise inclusively 
                <span class="bold"><strong>OR</strong></span>'ing together one or more of the
                values described in this section.
            </p>
          <p>
                Because there are a large number of flags that can be specified,
                they have been grouped together by functionality. The first
                group of flags indicates which of the Berkeley DB subsystems
                should be initialized.
            </p>
          <p>
                The choice of subsystems initialized for a Berkeley DB database
                environment is specified by the thread of control initially
                creating the environment. Any subsequent thread of control
                joining the environment will automatically be configured to use
                the same subsystems as were created in the environment (unless
                the thread of control requests a subsystem not available in the
                environment, which will fail). Applications joining an
                environment, able to adapt to whatever subsystems have been
                configured in the environment, should open the environment
                without specifying any subsystem flags. Applications joining an
                environment, requiring specific subsystems from their
                environments, should open the environment specifying those
                specific subsystem flags.
            </p>
          <div class="itemizedlist">
            <ul type="disc">
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_INIT_CDB"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_CDB</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Initialize locking for the 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/cam.html#cam_intro" class="olink">Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store</a> 
                        product. In this mode, Berkeley DB provides multiple
                        reader/single writer access. The only other subsystem
                        that should be specified with the <code class="literal">DB_INIT_CDB</code> 
                        flag is <code class="literal">DB_INIT_MPOOL</code>.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_INIT_LOCK"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_LOCK</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Initialize the locking subsystem. This subsystem should
                        be used when multiple processes or threads are going to
                        be reading and writing a Berkeley DB database, so that
                        they do not interfere with each other. If all threads
                        are accessing the database(s) read-only, locking is
                        unnecessary. When the DB_INIT_LOCK flag is specified, it
                        is usually necessary to run a deadlock detector, as
                        well. See <a class="link" href="db_deadlock.html" title="db_deadlock">db_deadlock</a> 
                        and <a class="xref" href="lockdetect.html" title="DbEnv::lock_detect()">DbEnv::lock_detect()</a>  
                        for more information.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_INIT_LOG"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_LOG</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Initialize the logging subsystem. This subsystem should
                        be used when recovery from application or system failure
                        is necessary. If the log region is being created and log
                        files are already present, the log files are reviewed;
                        subsequent log writes are appended to the end of the
                        log, rather than overwriting current log entries.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_INIT_MPOOL"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_MPOOL</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Initialize the shared memory buffer pool subsystem.
                        This subsystem should be used whenever an application is
                        using any Berkeley DB access method.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_INIT_REP"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_REP</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Initialize the replication subsystem. This subsystem
                        should be used whenever an application plans on using
                        replication. The <code class="literal">DB_INIT_REP</code> flag
                        requires the <code class="literal">DB_INIT_TXN</code> and
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_LOCK</code> flags also be
                        configured.
                    </p>
                <p>
                        You can also specify this flag in the <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_db_config.html#env_db_config.DB_CONFIG" class="olink">DB_CONFIG</a>
                        configuration file. The syntax is a single line
                        with the string "set_open_flags", one or more
                        whitespace characters, the string "DB_INIT_REP",
                        optionally one or more whitespace characters and
                        the string "on" or "off".  If the optional string
                        is omitted, the default is "on"; for example,
                        "set_open_flags DB_INIT_REP" or "set_open_flags
                        DB_INIT_REP on".  Because the DB_CONFIG file is
                        read when the database environment is opened, it
                        will silently overrule configuration done before
                        that time.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_INIT_TXN"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_TXN</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Initialize the transaction subsystem. This subsystem
                        should be used when recovery and atomicity of multiple
                        operations are important. The
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_TXN</code> flag implies the
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_LOG</code> flag.
                    </p>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>
          <p>
                The second group of flags govern what recovery, if any, is
                performed when the environment is initialized:
            </p>
          <div class="itemizedlist">
            <ul type="disc">
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_RECOVER"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_RECOVER</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Run normal recovery on this environment before opening
                        it for normal use. If this flag is set, the
                        <code class="literal">DB_CREATE</code> and
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_TXN</code> flags must also be set,
                        because the regions will be removed and re-created, and
                        transactions are required for application recovery.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_RECOVER_FATAL"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_RECOVER_FATAL</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Run catastrophic recovery on this environment before
                        opening it for normal use.  If this flag is set, the
                        <code class="literal">DB_CREATE</code> and
                        <code class="literal">DB_INIT_TXN</code> flags must also be set,
                        because the regions will be removed and re-created, and
                        transactions are required for application recovery.
                    </p>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>
          <p>
                A standard part of the recovery process is to remove the
                existing Berkeley DB environment and create a new one in which
                to perform recovery. If the thread of control performing
                recovery does not specify the correct region initialization
                information (for example, the correct memory pool cache size),
                the result can be an application running in an environment with
                incorrect cache and other subsystem sizes. For this reason, the
                thread of control performing recovery should specify correct
                configuration information before calling the
                <code class="methodname">DbEnv::open()</code> method; or it should
                remove the environment after recovery is completed, leaving
                creation of the correctly sized environment to a subsequent call
                to the <code class="methodname">DbEnv::open()</code> method.
            </p>
          <p>
                All Berkeley DB recovery processing must be single-threaded;
                that is, only a single thread of control may perform recovery or
                access a Berkeley DB environment while recovery is being
                performed. Because it is not an error to specify
                <code class="literal">DB_RECOVER</code> for an environment for which no
                recovery is required, it is reasonable programming practice for
                the thread of control responsible for performing recovery and
                creating the environment to always specify the
                <code class="literal">DB_CREATE</code> and <code class="literal">DB_RECOVER</code>
                flags during startup.
            </p>
          <p>
                The third group of flags govern file-naming extensions in the
                environment:
            </p>
          <div class="itemizedlist">
            <ul type="disc">
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_USE_ENVIRON"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_USE_ENVIRON</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        The Berkeley DB process' environment may be permitted to
                        specify information to be used when naming files; see 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_naming.html" class="olink">Berkeley DB File Naming</a>. 
                        Because permitting users to specify which files are used
                        can create security problems, environment information
                        will be used in file naming for all users only if the
                        <code class="literal">DB_USE_ENVIRON</code> flag is set.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_USE_ENVIRON_ROOT"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_USE_ENVIRON_ROOT</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        The Berkeley DB process' environment may be permitted to
                        specify information to be used when naming files; see 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_naming.html" class="olink">Berkeley DB File Naming</a>. 
                        Because permitting users to specify which files are used
                        can create security problems, if the
                        <code class="literal">DB_USE_ENVIRON_ROOT</code> flag is set,
                        environment information will be used in file naming only
                        for users with appropriate permissions (for example,
                        users with a user-ID of 0 on <code class="literal">UNIX</code>
                        systems).
                    </p>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div>
          <p>
                    Finally, there are a few additional unrelated flags:
            </p>
          <div class="itemizedlist">
            <ul type="disc">
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_CREATE"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_CREATE</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Cause Berkeley DB subsystems to create any underlying
                        files, as necessary.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_LOCKDOWN"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_LOCKDOWN</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Lock shared Berkeley DB environment files and
                        memory-mapped databases into memory.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_FAILCHK"></a>
                         <code class="literal">DB_FAILCHK</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Internally call the <a class="xref" href="envfailchk.html" title="DbEnv::failchk()">DbEnv::failchk()</a>  
                        method as part of opening the environment.  When
                        <code class="literal">DB_FAILCHK</code> is specified, a check is
                        made to ensure all
                        <code class="methodname">DbEnv::failchk()</code> prerequisites
                        are meet.
                    </p>
                <p>
                        If the <code class="literal">DB_FAILCHK</code> flag is used in
                        conjunction with the <code class="literal">DB_REGISTER</code>
                        flag, then a check will be made to see if the
                        environment needs recovery.  If recovery is needed, a
                        call will be made to the
                        <code class="methodname">DbEnv::failchk()</code> method to
                        release any database reads locks held by the thread of
                        control that exited and, if needed, to abort the
                        unresolved transaction.  If
                        <code class="methodname">DbEnv::failchk()</code> determines
                        environment recovery is still required, the recovery
                        actions for <code class="literal">DB_REGISTER</code> will be
                        followed.    
                    </p>
                <p>
                        If the <code class="literal">DB_FAILCHK</code> flag is not used in
                        conjunction with the <code class="literal">DB_REGISTER</code>
                        flag, then make an internal call to
                        <code class="methodname">DbEnv::failchk()</code> as the last
                        step of opening the environment.  If
                        <code class="methodname">DbEnv::failchk()</code> determines
                        database environment recovery is 
                        required, 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/program_errorret.html#program_errorret.DB_RUNRECOVERY" class="olink">DB_RUNRECOVERY</a>
                        will be returned.

                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_PRIVATE"></a>
                             <code class="literal">DB_PRIVATE</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Allocate region memory from the heap instead of from
                        memory backed by the filesystem or system shared memory.
                    </p>
                <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
                  <h3 class="title">Note</h3>
                  <p>
                            Use of this flag means that the environment can only be
                            accessed by one environment handle. The environment
                            cannot be accessed by multiple processes. This is true
                            even if one of those processes is one of the the Berkeley DB
                            utilities.  (For example, 
                            <a class="link" href="db_archive.html" title="db_archive">db_archive</a>, 
                            <a class="link" href="db_checkpoint.html" title="db_checkpoint">db_checkpoint</a> or 
                            <a class="link" href="db_stat.html" title="db_stat">db_stat</a>.)
                            Nor can a single process open multiple
                            handles to the environment.
                        </p>
                </div>
                <p>
                        This flag has two effects on the Berkeley DB
                        environment. First, all underlying data structures are
                        allocated from per-process memory instead of from shared
                        memory that is accessible to more than a single process.
                        Second, mutexes are only configured to work between
                        threads.
                    </p>
                <p>
                        See 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_region.html" class="olink">Shared Memory Regions</a> 
                        for more information.
                    </p>
                <p>
                        You can also specify this flag in the <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_db_config.html#env_db_config.DB_CONFIG" class="olink">DB_CONFIG</a>
                        configuration file. The syntax is a single line with the
                        string "set_open_flags", one or more whitespace
                        characters, the string "DB_PRIVATE", optionally one or
                        more whitespace characters and the string "on" or "off".
                        If the optional string is omitted, the default is "on";
                        for example, "set_open_flags DB_PRIVATE" or
                        "set_open_flags DB_PRIVATE on".  Because the DB_CONFIG
                        file is read when the database environment is opened, it
                        will silently overrule configuration done before that
                        time.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_REGISTER"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_REGISTER</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Check to see if recovery needs to be performed before
                        opening the database environment. (For this check to be
                        accurate, all processes using the environment must
                        specify <code class="literal">DB_REGISTER</code> when opening the
                        environment.) If recovery needs to be performed for any
                        reason (including the initial use of the
                        <code class="literal">DB_REGISTER</code> flag), and
                        <code class="literal">DB_RECOVER</code> is also specified,
                        recovery will be performed and the open will proceed
                        normally. If recovery needs to be performed and
                        <code class="literal">DB_RECOVER</code> is not specified, 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/program_errorret.html#program_errorret.DB_RUNRECOVERY" class="olink">DB_RUNRECOVERY</a> 
                        will be returned.  If recovery does not need to be
                        performed, the <code class="literal">DB_RECOVER</code> flag will
                        be ignored. See 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/transapp_app.html" class="olink">Architecting Transactional Data Store applications</a> 
                        for more information.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_SYSTEM_MEM"></a>
                        <code class="literal">DB_SYSTEM_MEM</code>
                    </p>
                <p>
                        Allocate region memory from system shared memory instead
                        of from heap memory or memory backed by the filesystem. 
                    </p>
                <p>
                        See 
                        <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_region.html" class="olink">Shared Memory Regions</a> 
                        for more information.
                    </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p><a id="envopen_DB_THREAD"></a>
                            <code class="literal">DB_THREAD</code>
                        </p>
                <p>
                            Cause the 
                            <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5.  The DbEnv Handle">DbEnv</a> 
                            handle returned by <code class="methodname">DbEnv::open()</code> to be <span class="emphasis"><em>free-threaded;</em></span> that is,
                            concurrently usable by multiple threads in the
                            address space. The <code class="literal">DB_THREAD </code>
                            flag should be specified if the 
                            <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5.  The DbEnv Handle">DbEnv</a> handle will be
                            concurrently used by more than one thread in the
                            process, or if any 
                            <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2.  The Db Handle">Db</a> handles opened in
                            the scope of the 
                            <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5.  The DbEnv Handle">DbEnv</a> handle will be
                            concurrently used by more than one thread in the
                            process.
                        </p>
                <p>
                            This flag is required when using the Replication Manager.
                        </p>
                <p>
                            You can also specify this flag in the <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_db_config.html#env_db_config.DB_CONFIG" class="olink">DB_CONFIG</a>
                            configuration file. The syntax is a single line with
                            the string "set_open_flags", one or more whitespace
                            characters, the string "DB_THREAD", optionally one
                            or more whitespace characters and the string "on" or
                            "off". If the optional string is omitted, the
                            default is "on"; for example, "set_open_flags
                            DB_THREAD" or "set_open_flags DB_THREAD on".
                            Because the DB_CONFIG file is read when the database
                            environment is opened, it will silently overrule
                            configuration done before that time.
                        </p>
              </li>
            </ul>
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        </div>
        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <div class="titlepage">
            <div>
              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp7021040"></a>mode</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
                  On Windows systems, the mode parameter is ignored.                    
             </p>
          <p>
                  On UNIX systems or in IEEE/ANSI Std 1003.1 (POSIX)
                  environments, files created by Berkeley DB are created with
                  mode <span class="bold"><strong>mode</strong></span> (as described in
                  <span class="bold"><strong>chmod</strong></span>(2)) and modified by the
                  process' umask value at the time of creation (see 
                  <span class="bold"><strong>umask</strong></span>(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 Berkeley DB are created with mode
                  <span class="bold"><strong>mode</strong></span>, unmodified by the
                  process' umask value.  If 
                  <span class="bold"><strong>mode</strong></span> is 0, Berkeley DB will use a
                  default mode of readable and writable by both owner and group.
             </p>
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      </div>
      <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
        <div class="titlepage">
          <div>
            <div>
              <h3 class="title"><a id="idp7021232"></a>Errors</h3>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
        <p>
            The <code class="methodname">DbEnv::open()</code> <span>
            
            <span>
                method may fail and throw a <a class="link" href="dbexception.html" title="Chapter 6. The DbException Class">DbException</a> 
                exception, encapsulating one of the following non-zero errors, or return one
                of the following non-zero errors:
            </span>
        </span>
        </p>
        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <div class="titlepage">
            <div>
              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp7077936"></a>DB_RUNRECOVERY</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
                 Either the <code class="literal">DB_REGISTER</code> flag was specified, a
                 failure occurred, and no recovery flag was specified, or the
                 <code class="literal">DB_FAILCHK</code> flag was specified and recovery
                 was deemed necessary.
            </p>
        </div>
        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <div class="titlepage">
            <div>
              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp7020368"></a>DB_VERSION_MISMATCH</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
              The version of the Berkeley DB library doesn't match the version
              that created the database environment.
            </p>
        </div>
        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <div class="titlepage">
            <div>
              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp7062352"></a>EAGAIN</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
              The shared memory region was locked and (repeatedly) unavailable.
            </p>
        </div>
        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <div class="titlepage">
            <div>
              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp7093440"></a>EINVAL</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
                 If the <code class="literal">DB_THREAD</code> flag was specified and fast
                 mutexes are not available for this architecture; The
                 <code class="literal">DB_HOME</code> or <code class="literal">TMPDIR</code>
                 environment variables were set, but empty; An incorrectly
                 formatted <span class="bold"><strong>NAME VALUE</strong></span> entry or
                 line was found; or if an invalid flag value or parameter was
                 specified.
            </p>
        </div>
        <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
          <div class="titlepage">
            <div>
              <div>
                <h4 class="title"><a id="idp6988664"></a>ENOENT</h4>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p>
                The file or directory does not exist.
            </p>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
        <div class="titlepage">
          <div>
            <div>
              <h3 class="title"><a id="idp7076856"></a>Class</h3>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
        <p>
            <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5.  The DbEnv Handle">DbEnv</a>  
        </p>
      </div>
      <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
        <div class="titlepage">
          <div>
            <div>
              <h3 class="title"><a id="idp7018000"></a>See Also</h3>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
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