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<pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;
int
DB_MPOOLFILE-&gt;set_fileid(DB_MPOOLFILE *mpf, u_int8_t *fileid); </pre>
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The <code class="methodname">DB_MPOOLFILE-&gt;set_fileid()</code> method specifies a unique identifier
for the file. (The shared memory buffer pool functions must be able to
uniquely identify files in order that multiple processes wanting to
share a file will correctly identify it in the cache.)
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On most UNIX/POSIX systems, the <span class="bold"><strong>fileid</strong></span> field will not need
to be set, and the memory pool functions will use the file's device and inode numbers for
this purpose. On Windows systems, the memory pool functions use the values returned by
<code class="methodname">GetFileInformationByHandle()</code> by default — these values are
known to be constant between processes and over reboot in the case of NTFS (in which they
are the NTFS MFT indices).
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On other filesystems (for example, FAT or NFS), these default values
are not necessarily unique between processes or across system reboots.
<span class="bold"><strong>Applications wanting to maintain a shared
cache between processes or across system reboots, in which the
cache contains pages from files stored on such filesystems, must
specify a unique file identifier using the <code class="methodname">DB_MPOOLFILE-&gt;set_fileid()</code>
method, and each process opening the file must provide the same unique
identifier.</strong></span>
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This call should not be necessary for most applications.
Specifically, it is not necessary if the cache is not shared
between processes and is reinstantiated after each system reboot, if
the application is using the Berkeley DB access methods instead of
calling the pool functions explicitly, or if the files in the
cache are stored on filesystems in which the default values as
described previously are invariant between process and across system
reboots.
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The <code class="methodname">DB_MPOOLFILE-&gt;set_fileid()</code> method configures a file in the
cache, not only operations performed using the specified
<a class="link" href="memp.html" title="Chapter 8.  The DB_MPOOLFILE Handle">DB_MPOOLFILE</a> handle.
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method is called. If the mpool file already exists when
<code class="methodname">DB_MPOOLFILE-&gt;open()</code> is called, the information
specified to <code class="methodname">DB_MPOOLFILE-&gt;set_fileid()</code> must be
the same as that historically used to create the mpool file or
corruption can occur.
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The <code class="methodname">DB_MPOOLFILE-&gt;set_fileid()</code> <span>
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method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.
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The <span class="bold"><strong>fileid</strong></span> parameter is the unique
identifier for the file. Unique file identifiers must be a
<code class="literal">DB_FILE_ID_LEN</code> length array of bytes.
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