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<pre class="programlisting">#include <db.h>
int
DB->fd(DB *db, int *fdp); </pre>
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The <code class="methodname">DB->fd()</code> method provides access to a file descriptor
representative of the underlying database. A file descriptor
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This file descriptor may be safely used as a parameter to the
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The <code class="methodname">DB->fd()</code> method only supports a coarse-grained form of locking.
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The <span class="bold"><strong>fdp</strong></span> parameter references memory
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