On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Adil Hasan <paradox2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > I would like to add sqlite to a workflow. But, I cannot directly open the > database in C using the filename as the application I'm using places a > layer > inbetween the filesystem and my workflow. I can open the file with > a command from the middle-layer and get a file descriptor. Is there a way > that I can just pass the file descriptor to the open command instead > of the database filename? > No. The SQLite transaction control and recovery mechanism depends on knowing the filename. So you cannot open an SQLite database file by passing just a file descriptor. Theoretically, if the file were immutable and known to be in a consistent state (it does not need recovery because the last writer did not crash) then it might be possible to open an SQLite database read-only using just a file descriptor. But no mechanism exists to do this at the current time. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
