zip_file_set_external_attributes(3)

zip_file_set_external_attributes3

Set external attributes for file in zip

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

zip_file_set_external_attributes(zip_t *archive, zip_uint64_t index, zip_flags_t flags, zip_uint8_t opsys, zip_uint32_t attributes);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The zip_file_set_external_attributes() function sets the operating system and external attributes for the file at position index in the zip archive. Currently, no flags are supported.

For a list of known opsys values, see zip_file_get_external_attributes(3).

Return values

Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in archive is set to indicate the error.

Errors

zip_file_set_external_attributes() fails if:

[ZIP_ER_INVAL]

index is not a valid file index in archive.

[ZIP_ER_MEMORY]

Required memory could not be allocated.

[ZIP_ER_RDONLY]

The archive was opened in read-only mode.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10–12
  4. 13–Arch

History

zip_file_set_external_attributes() was added in libzip 0.11.2.

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.