### DB->fd

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    #include <db.h>

    int
    DB->fd(DB *db, int *fdp);

### Description: DB->fd

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 file descriptor is not necessarily associated with any of the underlying files actually used by the access method.

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.

### Parameters

fdp
  The fdp parameter references memory into which the current file descriptor is copied.

### Class

DB

### See Also

Databases and Related Methods`

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