zip_error_to_str(3)

zip_error_to_str3

Get string representation of zip error (obsolete interface)

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

zip_error_to_str(char *buf, zip_uint64_t len, int ze, int se);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The function zip_error_to_str() is deprecated; use zip_error_init_with_code(3) and zip_error_strerror(3) instead.

Replace

char buf[BUFSIZE];
zip_error_to_str(buf, sizeof(buf), ze, se);
printf("%s", buf);

with

zip_error_t error;
zip_error_init_with_code(&error, ze);
printf("%s", zip_error_strerror(&error));
zip_error_fini(&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_to_str() was added in libzip 0.6. In libzip 0.10 the type of len was changed from size_t to zip_uint64_t. It was deprecated in libzip 1.0, use zip_error_init_with_code() and zip_error_strerror() 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.