.Dd December 19, 2018
.Dt SQLITE3_IO_METHODS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sqlite3_io_methods ,
.Nm sqlite3_io_methods
.Nd OS Interface File Virtual Methods Object
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Vt typedef struct sqlite3_io_methods sqlite3_io_methods;
.Vt struct sqlite3_io_methods ;
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Every file opened by the sqlite3_vfs.xOpen method
populates an sqlite3_file object (or, more commonly, a
subclass of the sqlite3_file object) with a pointer to
an instance of this object.
This object defines the methods used to perform various operations
against the open file represented by the sqlite3_file object.
.Pp
If the sqlite3_vfs.xOpen method sets the sqlite3_file.pMethods
element to a non-NULL pointer, then the sqlite3_io_methods.xClose method
may be invoked even if the sqlite3_vfs.xOpen reported
that it failed.
The only way to prevent a call to xClose following a failed sqlite3_vfs.xOpen
is for the sqlite3_vfs.xOpen to set the sqlite3_file.pMethods
element to NULL.
.Pp
The flags argument to xSync may be one of SQLITE_SYNC_NORMAL
or SQLITE_SYNC_FULL.
The first choice is the normal fsync().
The second choice is a Mac OS X style fullsync.
The SQLITE_SYNC_DATAONLY flag may be ORed in to
indicate that only the data of the file and not its inode needs to
be synced.
.Pp
The integer values to xLock() and xUnlock() are one of
.Bl -bullet
.It
SQLITE_LOCK_NONE,
.It
SQLITE_LOCK_SHARED,
.It
SQLITE_LOCK_RESERVED,
.It
SQLITE_LOCK_PENDING, or
.It
SQLITE_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE.
.El
.Pp
xLock() increases the lock.
xUnlock() decreases the lock.
The xCheckReservedLock() method checks whether any database connection,
either in this process or in some other process, is holding a RESERVED,
PENDING, or EXCLUSIVE lock on the file.
It returns true if such a lock exists and false otherwise.
.Pp
The xFileControl() method is a generic interface that allows custom
VFS implementations to directly control an open file using the sqlite3_file_control()
interface.
The second "op" argument is an integer opcode.
The third argument is a generic pointer intended to point to a structure
that may contain arguments or space in which to write return values.
Potential uses for xFileControl() might be functions to enable blocking
locks with timeouts, to change the locking strategy (for example to
use dot-file locks), to inquire about the status of a lock, or to break
stale locks.
The SQLite core reserves all opcodes less than 100 for its own use.
A list of opcodes less than 100 is available.
Applications that define a custom xFileControl method should use opcodes
greater than 100 to avoid conflicts.
VFS implementations should return SQLITE_NOTFOUND for
file control opcodes that they do not recognize.
.Pp
The xSectorSize() method returns the sector size of the device that
underlies the file.
The sector size is the minimum write that can be performed without
disturbing other bytes in the file.
The xDeviceCharacteristics() method returns a bit vector describing
behaviors of the underlying device:
.Bl -bullet
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC512
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC1K
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC2K
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC4K
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC8K
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC16K
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC32K
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC64K
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_SAFE_APPEND
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_SEQUENTIAL
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_UNDELETABLE_WHEN_OPEN
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_POWERSAFE_OVERWRITE
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_IMMUTABLE
.It
SQLITE_IOCAP_BATCH_ATOMIC
.El
.Pp
The SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC property means that all writes of any size
are atomic.
The SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMICnnn values mean that writes of blocks that are
nnn bytes in size and are aligned to an address which is an integer
multiple of nnn are atomic.
The SQLITE_IOCAP_SAFE_APPEND value means that when data is appended
to a file, the data is appended first then the size of the file is
extended, never the other way around.
The SQLITE_IOCAP_SEQUENTIAL property means that information is written
to disk in the same order as calls to xWrite().
.Pp
If xRead() returns SQLITE_IOERR_SHORT_READ it must also fill in the
unread portions of the buffer with zeros.
A VFS that fails to zero-fill short reads might seem to work.
However, failure to zero-fill short reads will eventually lead to database
corruption.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr SQLITE_FCNTL_LOCKSTATE 3 ,
.Xr sqlite3_file 3 ,
.Xr sqlite3_file_control 3 ,
.Xr SQLITE_IOCAP_ATOMIC 3 ,
.Xr SQLITE_LOCK_NONE 3 ,
.Xr SQLITE_OK 3 ,
.Xr SQLITE_SYNC_NORMAL 3