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| author | Keith Bostic <keith.bostic@mongodb.com> | 2017-05-16 12:02:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Alex Gorrod <alexander.gorrod@mongodb.com> | 2017-05-16 12:02:51 -0400 |
| commit | e3c1f0012e3eac806a7b8e64cb4dee90aeab8eda (patch) | |
| tree | d5ec62f987747616b6ac2b407ef9acdec0422689 /src/include | |
| parent | 34b599ea3c994498b53ec1c9deb62914b9798b0b (diff) | |
| download | mongo-e3c1f0012e3eac806a7b8e64cb4dee90aeab8eda.tar.gz | |
WT-3314 clarify WT_PANIC error handling (#3418)
A correctly-written WiredTiger application will have an error handler
for WT_PANIC, and that isn't explicit in the documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/include/wiredtiger.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/wiredtiger.in b/src/include/wiredtiger.in index e38c41baccd..848448a453d 100644 --- a/src/include/wiredtiger.in +++ b/src/include/wiredtiger.in @@ -3143,10 +3143,9 @@ const char *wiredtiger_version(int *majorp, int *minorp, int *patchp) #define WT_NOTFOUND (-31803) /*! * WiredTiger library panic. - * This error indicates an underlying problem that requires the application exit - * and restart. The application can exit immediately when \c WT_PANIC is - * returned from a WiredTiger interface, no further WiredTiger calls are - * required. + * This error indicates an underlying problem that requires a database restart. + * The application may exit immediately, no further WiredTiger calls are + * required (and further calls will themselves immediately fail). */ #define WT_PANIC (-31804) /*! @cond internal */ |