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ZIP_FOPEN(3) Library Functions Manual ZIP_FOPEN(3)

NAME

zip_fopen , - .Nm zip_fopen_index open file in zip archive for reading

LIBRARY

libzip (-lzip)

SYNOPSIS

#include <zip.h>

struct zip_file * zip_fopen(struct zip *archive, const char *fname, int flags);

struct zip_file * zip_fopen_index(struct zip *archive, int index, int flags);

DESCRIPTION

The zip_fopen function opens the file name fname in archive. The flags argument specifies how the name lookup should be done, according to the values are described in zip_name_locate(3). Also, the following values may be or'ed to it.

Read the compressed data. Otherwise the data is uncompressed by zip_fread.
Read the original data from the zip archive, ignoring any changes made to the file.

The zip_fopen_index function opens the file at position index.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, a

struct zip_file pointer is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned and the error code in archive is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

[ZIP_ER_CHANGED]
The file data has been changed.
[ZIP_ER_COMPNOTSUPP]
The compression method used is not supported.
[ZIP_ER_MEMORY]
Required memory could not be allocated.
[ZIP_ER_READ]
A file read error occurred.
[ZIP_ER_SEEK]
A file seek error occurred.
[ZIP_ER_ZLIB]
Initializing the zlib stream failed.

The function zip_fopen may also fail and set for any of the errors specified for the routine zip_name_locate(3).

The function zip_fopen_index may also fail with ZIP_ER_INVAL if index is invalid.

SEE ALSO

libzip(3), zip_fclose(3), zip_fread(3), zip_name_locate(3)

AUTHORS

Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

April 14, 2004 NiH