NAME¶
zip_open - open zip archive
LIBRARY¶
libzip (-lzip)
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <zip.h>
struct zip * zip_open(const char *path, int flags, int *errorp);
DESCRIPTION¶
The zip archive specified by
path is opened and a pointer to a
struct zip, used to manipulate the archive, is returned. The are specified by
or'ing the following values, or 0 for none of them.
- ZIP_CREATE
- Create the archive if it does not exist.
- ZIP_EXCL
- Error if archive already exists.
- ZIP_CHECKCONS
- Perform additional consistency checks on the archive, and
error if they fail.
If an error occurs and
errorp is non-NULL, it will be set to the
corresponding error code.
RETURN VALUES¶
Upon successful completion zip_open returns a
struct zip pointer. Otherwise,
NULL is returned and
*errorp is set
to indicate the error.
ERRORS¶
The archive specified by
path is opened unless:
- [ZIP_ER_EXISTS]
- The file specified by path exists and
ZIP_EXCL is set.
- [ZIP_ER_INCONS]
- Inconsistencies were found in the file specified by
path and ZIP_CHECKCONS was specified.
- [ZIP_ER_INVAL]
- The path argument is NULL.
- [ZIP_ER_MEMORY]
- Required memory could not be allocated.
- [ZIP_ER_NOENT]
- The file specified by path does not exist and
ZIP_CREATE is not set.
- [ZIP_ER_NOZIP]
- The file specified by path is not a zip
archive.
- [ZIP_ER_OPEN]
- The file specified by path could not be opened.
- [ZIP_ER_READ]
- A read error occurred; see for details.
- [ZIP_ER_SEEK]
- The file specified by path does not allow
seeks.
SEE ALSO¶
libzip(3),
zip_close(3),
zip_error_to_str(3),
zip_fdopen(3)
AUTHORS¶
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner
<tk@giga.or.at>
