Expert: increments the refCount of this IndexReader instance. RefCounts are used to determine when a reader can be closed safely, i.e. as soon as there are no more references. Be sure to always call a corresponding {@link #decRef}, in a finally clause; otherwise the reader may never be closed. Note that {@link #close} simply calls decRef(), which means that the IndexReader will not really be closed until {@link #decRef} has been called for all outstanding references.
IndexReader Class | Lucene.Net.Index Namespace