zip_source_begin_write(3)

zip_source_begin_write3

Prepare zip source for writing

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

zip_source_begin_write(zip_source_t *source);

int

zip_source_begin_write_cloning(zip_source_t *source, zip_uint64_t offset);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The functions zip_source_begin_write() and zip_source_begin_write_cloning() prepare source for writing. Usually this involves creating temporary files or allocating buffers.

zip_source_begin_write_cloning() preserves the first offset bytes of the original file. This is done efficiently, and writes to source won't overwrite the original data until zip_commit_write() is called.

Return values

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

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10–12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

History

zip_source_begin_write() was added in libzip 1.0.

zip_source_begin_write_cloning() was added in libzip 1.4.0.

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.