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<p>In previous releases, the function specified to the
<a href="../api_reference/C/envset_isalive.html" class="olink">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:
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<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
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