zip_fread(3)

zip_fread3

Read from file

Usage

#include <zip.h>

zip_int64_t

zip_fread(zip_file_t *file, void *buf, zip_uint64_t nbytes);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The zip_fread() function reads up to nbytes bytes from file into buf from the current position in the file (see zip_fseek(3)). After reading, the current position is updated by the number of bytes read.

Return values

If successful, the number of bytes actually read is returned. When zip_fread() is called after reaching the end of the file, 0 is returned. In case of error, -1 is returned.

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_fread() was added in libzip 0.6. In libzip 0.10 the return type was changed from ssize_t to zip_int64_t. In libzip 0.10 the type of nbytes was changed from size_t to zip_uint64_t.

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.