zip_open

Langue: en

Version: December 27, 2003 (fedora - 05/07/09)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

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 errno 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)

AUTHORS

Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>