zip_source_filep_create(3)

zip_source_filep_create3

Create data source from file *

Part of zip_source_filep(3).

Usage

#include <zip.h>

zip_source_t *

zip_source_filep(zip_t *archive, FILE *file, zip_uint64_t start, zip_int64_t len);

zip_source_t *

zip_source_filep_create(FILE *file, zip_uint64_t start, zip_int64_t len, zip_error_t *error);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The functions zip_source_filep() and zip_source_filep_create() create a zip source from a file stream. They read len bytes from offset start from the open file stream file. For a description of the len argument, see zip_source_file(3).

If the file stream supports seeking, the source can be used to open a read-only zip archive from.

The file stream is closed when the source is being freed, usually by zip_close(3).

Return values

Upon successful completion, the created source is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned and the error code in archive or error is set to indicate the error.

Errors

zip_source_filep() fails if:

[ZIP_ER_INVAL]

file, start, or len are invalid.

[ZIP_ER_MEMORY]

Required memory could not be allocated.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11–12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

History

zip_source_filep() and zip_source_filep_create() were added in libzip 1.0.

ZIP_LENGTH_TO_END and ZIP_LENGTH_UNCHECKED were added in libzip 1.10.1.

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.