Berkeley DB

DB→stat

						#include <db.h>
						int
						DB→stat(DB *db,
						void *sp, void *(*db_malloc)(size_t), u_int32_t flags);
					

Description

The DB→stat function creates a statistical structure and copies a pointer to it into user-specified memory locations. Specifically, if sp is non-NULL, a pointer to the statistics for the database are copied into the memory location it references.

Statistical structures are created in allocated memory. If db_malloc is non-NULL, it is called to allocate the memory; otherwise, the library function malloc(3) is used. The function db_malloc must match the calling conventions of the malloc(3) library routine. Regardless, the caller is responsible for deallocating the returned memory.To deallocate returned memory, free the returned memory ...