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**   It is cleared at the end of each transaction.
**
**   It is used when committing or otherwise ending a transaction. If
**   the dbModified flag is clear then less work has to be done.
**
** journalStarted
**
**   This flag is set whenever the the main journal is opened and
**   initialized
**   This flag is set during a write-transaction after the first 
**   journal-header is written and synced to disk.
**
**   The point of this flag is that it must be set after the 
**   first journal header in a journal file has been synced to disk.
**   After this has happened, new pages appended to the database 
**   do not need the PGHDR_NEED_SYNC flag set, as they do not need
**   to wait for a journal sync before they can be written out to
**   the database file (see function pager_write()).
**   
** setMaster
**
**   When PagerCommitPhaseOne() is called to commit a transaction, it may
**   This variable is used to ensure that the master journal file name
**   (if any) is only written into the journal file once.
**   (or may not) specify a master-journal name to be written into the 
**   journal file before it is synced to disk.
**
**   When committing a transaction, the master journal file name (if any)
**   may be written into the journal file while the pager is still in
**   Whether or not a journal file contains a master-journal pointer affects 
**   the way in which the journal file is finalized after the transaction is 
**   PAGER_RESERVED state (see CommitPhaseOne() for the action). It
**   then attempts to upgrade to an exclusive lock. If this attempt
**   fails, then SQLITE_BUSY may be returned to the user and the user
**   may attempt to commit the transaction again later (calling
**   CommitPhaseOne() again). This flag is used to ensure that the 
**   master journal name is only written to the journal file the first
**   time CommitPhaseOne() is called.
**   committed or rolled back when running in "journal_mode=PERSIST" mode.
**   If a journal file does not contain a master-journal pointer, it is
**   finalized by overwriting the first journal header with zeroes. If,
**   on the other hand, it does contain a master-journal pointer, the
**   journal file is finalized by truncating it to zero bytes, just as if
**   the connection were running in "journal_mode=truncate" mode.
**
**   Journal files that contain master journal pointers cannot be finalized
**   simply by overwriting the first journal-header with zeroes, as the
**   master journal pointer could interfere with hot-journal rollback of any
**   subsequently interrupted transaction that reuses the journal file.
**
**   The flag is cleared as soon as the journal file is finalized (either
**   by PagerCommitPhaseTwo or PagerRollback). If an IO error prevents the
**   journal file from being successfully finalized, the setMaster flag
**   is cleared anyway.
**
** doNotSpill, doNotSyncSpill
**
**   When enabled, cache spills are prohibited.  The doNotSpill variable
**   inhibits all cache spill and doNotSyncSpill inhibits those spills that
**   would require a journal sync.  The doNotSyncSpill is set and cleared 
**   by sqlite3PagerWrite() in order to prevent a journal sync from happening 

static int writeMasterJournal(Pager *pPager, const char *zMaster){
  int rc;                          /* Return code */
  int nMaster;                     /* Length of string zMaster */
  i64 iHdrOff;                     /* Offset of header in journal file */
  i64 jrnlSize;                    /* Size of journal file on disk */
  u32 cksum = 0;                   /* Checksum of string zMaster */

  assert( pPager->setMaster==0 );

  if( !zMaster || pPager->setMaster
  if( !zMaster 
   || pPager->journalMode==PAGER_JOURNALMODE_MEMORY 
   || pPager->journalMode==PAGER_JOURNALMODE_OFF 
  ){
    return SQLITE_OK;
  }
  pPager->setMaster = 1;
  assert( isOpen(pPager->jfd) );