NAME zzip_disk_mmap, zzip_disk_init, zzip_disk_new, zzip_disk_munmap, zzip_disk_open, zzip_disk_close - turn a filehandle into a mmapped zip disk archive handle

SYNOPSIS

#include <zzip/mmapped.h>

The zzip_disk_mmap function uses the given file-descriptor to detect the length of the file and calls the system mmap(2) to put it in main memory. If it is successful then a newly allocated ZZIP_DISK* is returned with disk->buffer pointing to the mapview of the zipdisk content. The zzip_disk_init function does primary initialization of a disk-buffer struct. The zzip_disk_new function allocates a new disk-buffer with malloc(3) The zzip_disk_munmap function is the inverse of zzip_disk_mmap and using the system munmap(2) on the buffer area and free(3) on the ZZIP_DISK structure. The zzip_disk_open function opens the given archive by name and turn the filehandle to zzip_disk_mmap for bringing it to main memory. If it can not be mmap(2)´ed then we slurp the whole file into a newly malloc(2)´ed memory block. Only if that fails too then we return null. Since handling of disk->buffer is ambigous it should not be snatched away please. The zzip_disk_close function will release all data needed to access a (mmapped) zip archive, including any malloc()ed blocks, sharedmem mappings and it dumps the handle struct as well.

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2003,2004,2006 Guido Draheim All rights reserved, use under the restrictions of the Lesser GNU General Public License or alternatively the restrictions of the Mozilla Public License 1.1