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In some cases, however, the <span class="bold"><strong>errno</strong></span> value may be insufficient to completely describe the cause of the error, especially during initial application debugging. </p> <p> The <a class="xref" href="envset_errfile.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errfile()">DB_ENV->set_errfile()</a> and <code class="methodname">DB->set_errfile()</code> methods are used to enhance the mechanism for reporting error messages to the application by setting a C library FILE * to be used for displaying additional Berkeley DB error messages. In some cases, when an error occurs, Berkeley DB will output an additional error message to the specified file reference. </p> <p> Alternatively, you can use the <a class="xref" href="envset_errcall.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errcall()">DB_ENV->set_errcall()</a> or <a class="xref" href="dbset_errcall.html" title="DB->set_errcall()">DB->set_errcall()</a> methods to capture the additional error information in a way that does not use C library FILE *'s. </p> <p> The error message will consist of the prefix string and a colon ("<span class="bold"><strong>:</strong></span>") (if a prefix string was previously specified using <a class="xref" href="dbset_errpfx.html" title="DB->set_errpfx()">DB->set_errpfx()</a> or <a class="xref" href="envset_errpfx.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errpfx()">DB_ENV->set_errpfx()</a> ), an error string, and a trailing <newline> character. </p> <p> The default configuration when applications first create <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2. The DB Handle">DB</a> or <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5. The DB_ENV Handle">DB_ENV</a> handles is as if the <a class="xref" href="envset_errfile.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errfile()">DB_ENV->set_errfile()</a> or <code class="methodname">DB->set_errfile()</code> methods were called with the standard error output (stderr) specified as the FILE * argument. Applications wanting no output at all can turn off this default configuration by calling the <a class="xref" href="envset_errfile.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errfile()">DB_ENV->set_errfile()</a> or <code class="methodname">DB->set_errfile()</code> methods with NULL as the FILE * argument. Additionally, explicitly configuring the error output channel using any of the following methods will also turn off this default output for the application: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p> <code class="methodname">DB->set_errfile()</code> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a class="xref" href="envset_errfile.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errfile()">DB_ENV->set_errfile()</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a class="xref" href="envset_errcall.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errcall()">DB_ENV->set_errcall()</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a class="xref" href="dbset_errcall.html" title="DB->set_errcall()">DB->set_errcall()</a> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <p> This error logging enhancement does not slow performance or significantly increase application size, and may be run during normal operation as well as during application debugging. </p> <p> For <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2. The DB Handle">DB</a> handles opened inside of Berkeley DB environments, calling the <code class="methodname">DB->set_errfile()</code> method affects the entire environment and is equivalent to calling the <a class="xref" href="envset_errfile.html" title="DB_ENV->set_errfile()">DB_ENV->set_errfile()</a> method. </p> <p> When used on a database that was <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> opened in an environment, the <code class="methodname">DB->set_errfile()</code> method configures operations performed using the specified <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2. The DB Handle">DB</a> handle, not all operations performed on the underlying database. </p> <p> The <code class="methodname">DB->set_errfile()</code> method may be called at any time during the life of the application. </p> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="idp58251608"></a>Parameters</h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="idp58251800"></a>errfile</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>errfile</strong></span> parameter is a C library <code class="literal">FILE *</code> to be used for displaying additional Berkeley DB error information. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="idp58247280"></a>Class</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2. 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