zip_error_get(3)

zip_error_get3

Get error codes for archive or file (obsolete interface)

Usage

#include <zip.h>

void

zip_error_get(zip_t *archive, int *zep, int *sep);

void

zip_file_error_get(zip_file_t *file, int *zep, int *sep);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The functions zip_error_get() and zip_file_error_get() are deprecated. Use zip_error_code_system(3), zip_error_code_zip(3), zip_file_get_error(3), and zip_get_error(3) instead.

For zip_error_get(), replace

int ze, se;
zip_error_get(za, &ze, &se);

with

int ze, se;
zip_error_t *error = zip_get_error(za);
ze = zip_error_code_zip(error);
se = zip_error_code_system(error);

For zip_file_error_get(), replace

int ze, se;
zip_file_error_get(zf, &ze, &se);

with

int ze, se;
zip_error_t *error = zip_file_get_error(zf);
ze = zip_error_code_zip(error);
se = zip_error_code_system(error);

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10–12
  7. 13–Arch

History

zip_error_get() was added in libzip 0.6. It was deprecated in libzip 1.0, use zip_get_error(), zip_error_code_zip(), / zip_error_code_system() instead.

zip_file_error_get() was added in libzip 0.6. It was deprecated in libzip 1.0, use zip_file_get_error(), zip_error_code_zip(), / zip_error_code_system() instead.

Authors

Dieter Baron ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Thomas Klausner ⟨[email protected]⟩

From libzip 1.11.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.