Must all Concurrent Data Store (CDB) locks be explicitly released when closing a Berkeley DB?

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Published on 2010-03-22T17:27:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 17:31 UTC
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I have an application that comprises multiple processes each accessing a single Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store (CDB) database. Each process is single-threaded and does no explicit locking of the database. When each process terminates normally, it calls DB->close() and DB_ENV->close(). When all processes have terminated, there should be no locks on the database. Episodically, however, the database behaves as if some process was holding a write-lock on it even though all processes have terminated normally. Does each process need to explicitly release all locks before calling DB_ENV->close()? If so, how does the process obtain the "locker" parameter for the call to DB_ENV->loc_vec()?

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