Berkeley DB

DBcursor→c_close

						#include <db.h>
						int
						DBcursor→c_close(DBC *cursor);
					

Description

The DBcursor→c_close function discards the cursor.

It is possible for the DBcursor→c_close function to return DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK, signaling that any enclosing transaction should be aborted. If the application is already intending to abort the transaction, this error should be ignored, and the application should proceed.

Once DBcursor→c_close has been called, regardless of its return, the cursor handle may not be used again.

The DBcursor→c_close function returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.

Errors

The DBcursor→c_close function may fail and return a non-zero error for the following conditions:

• DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK The operation was selected to ...