<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>DbEnv::lock_get()</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="apiReference.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Berkeley DB C++ API Reference" /> <link rel="up" href="lock.html" title="Chapter 7. 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The DbLock Handle </th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lockid.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="lockget"></a>DbEnv::lock_get()</h2> </div> </div> </div> <pre class="programlisting">#include <db_cxx.h> int DbEnv::lock_get(u_int32_t locker, u_int32_t flags, const Dbt *object, const db_lockmode_t lock_mode, DbLock *lock);</pre> <p> The <code class="methodname">DbEnv::lock_get()</code> method acquires a lock from the lock table, returning information about it in the <span class="bold"><strong>lock</strong></span> parameter. </p> <p> The <code class="methodname">DbEnv::lock_get()</code> <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> </p> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1681320"></a>Parameters</h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1680927"></a>locker</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>locker</strong></span> parameter is an unsigned 32-bit integer quantity. It represents the entity requesting the lock. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1680928"></a>flags</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>flags</strong></span> parameter must be set to 0 or the following value: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p><a id="get_DB_LOCK_NOWAIT"></a> <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_NOWAIT</code> </p> <p> If a lock cannot be granted because the requested lock conflicts with an existing lock, return DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED immediately instead of waiting for the lock to become available. </p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1680951"></a>object</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>object</strong></span> parameter is an untyped byte string that specifies the object to be locked. Applications using the locking subsystem directly while also doing locking via the Berkeley DB access methods must take care not to inadvertently lock objects that happen to be equal to the unique file IDs used to lock files. See <a href="../../programmer_reference/lock_am_conv.html" class="olink">Access method locking conventions</a> in the <em class="citetitle">Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference Guide</em> for more information. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1681450"></a>lock_mode</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>lock_mode</strong></span> parameter is used as an index into the environment's lock conflict matrix. When using the default lock conflict matrix, <span class="bold"><strong>lock_mode</strong></span> must be set to one of the following values: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p> <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_READ</code> </p> <p> read (shared) </p> </li> <li> <p> <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_WRITE</code> </p> <p> write (exclusive) </p> </li> <li> <p> <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_IWRITE</code> </p> <p> intention to write (shared) </p> </li> <li> <p> <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_IREAD</code> </p> <p> intention to read (shared) </p> </li> <li> <p> <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_IWR</code> </p> <p> intention to read and write (shared) </p> </li> </ul> </div> <p> See <a class="xref" href="envset_lk_conflicts.html" title="DbEnv::set_lk_conflicts()">DbEnv::set_lk_conflicts()</a> and <a href="../../programmer_reference/lock_stdmode.html" class="olink">Standard Lock Modes</a> for more information on the lock conflict matrix. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1681590"></a>lock</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <code class="methodname">DbEnv::lock_get()</code> method returns the lock information in <span class="bold"><strong>lock</strong></span>. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1681679"></a>Errors</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <code class="methodname">DbEnv::lock_get()</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="id1680826"></a><span>DbDeadlockException or </span>DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> A transactional database environment operation was selected to resolve a deadlock. </p> <p> <a class="xref" href="dbdeadlock.html" title="DbDeadlockException">DbDeadlockException</a> is thrown if your Berkeley DB API is configured to throw exceptions. Otherwise, <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK</code> is returned. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1681305"></a><span>DbLockNotGrantedException or </span>DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> A Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store database environment configured for lock timeouts was unable to grant a lock in the allowed time. </p> <p> <a class="xref" href="dblocknotgranted.html" title="DbLockNotGrantedException">DbLockNotGrantedException</a> is thrown if your Berkeley DB API is configured to throw exceptions. Otherwise, <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED</code> is returned. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1681513"></a><span>DbLockNotGrantedException or </span>DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <a class="link" href="lockvec.html#vec_DB_LOCK_NOWAIT">DB_LOCK_NOWAIT</a> flag or lock timers were configured and the lock could not be granted before the wait-time expired. </p> <p> <a class="xref" href="dblocknotgranted.html" title="DbLockNotGrantedException">DbLockNotGrantedException</a> is thrown if your Berkeley DB API is configured to throw exceptions. Otherwise, <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED</code> is returned. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1681285"></a>EINVAL</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> 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="id1681743"></a>EINVAL</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The method was called on an environment which had been opened without being configured for locking. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1681288"></a>ENOMEM</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The maximum number of locks has been reached. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1681440"></a>Class</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5. The DbEnv Handle">DbEnv</a>, <a class="link" href="lock.html" title="Chapter 7. The DbLock Handle">DbLock</a> </p> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1681386"></a>See Also</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a class="xref" href="lock.html#locklist" title="Locking Subsystem and Related Methods">Locking Subsystem and Related Methods</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lockdetect.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="lock.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lockid.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DbEnv::lock_detect() </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DbEnv::lock_id()</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>