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libzip (-lzip)

#include <zip.h>

libzip is a library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives.

The main design criteria for libzip were:

• Maintain a stable API without breaking backwards compatibility.

• Do not create corrupt files, even in case of errors.

• Do not delete data.

• Be efficient.

For this reason, when modifying zip archives, libzip writes to a temporary file and replaces the original zip archive atomically.

When adding files to an archive, the file data is only read when the new archive is written. Therefore all files added must remain valid until the archive is closed with zip_close(3) or zip_discard(3).

Unless explicitly documented, functions should not be passed NULL pointers as arguments.

These data types correspond to central concepts in libzip. Most of them are private, meaning you can't allocate them or access their members directly. This allows extending the structures in the future without breaking compatibility.

In general, different zip archives opened by libzip are independent of each other and can be used by parallel-running threads without locking. If you want to use an archive from multiple threads, you have to synchronize access to it yourself. If you use an archive as a source for zip_file_add(3) or zip_file_replace(3), access to the target archive must be synchronized with access to the source archive as well.

• zip_error_strerror(3)

• zip_strerror(3)

• zip_file_strerror(3)

• zip_file_get_error(3)

• zip_get_error(3)

• zip_error_init_with_code(3)

• zip_error_set(3)

• zip_error_set_from_source(3)

• zip_error_system_type(3)

• zip_errors(3)

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at>

zip(5), zip_add(3), zip_add_dir(3), zip_close(3), zipcmp(1), zip_compression_method_supported(3), zip_delete(3), zip_dir_add(3), zip_discard(3), zip_encryption_method_supported(3), zip_error_clear(3), zip_error_code_system(3), zip_error_code_zip(3), zip_error_fini(3), zip_error_get(3), zip_error_get_sys_type(3), zip_error_init(3), zip_error_set(3), zip_error_set_from_source(3), zip_error_strerror(3), zip_error_system_type(3), zip_error_to_data(3), zip_error_to_str(3), zip_fclose(3), zip_fdopen(3), zip_file_add(3), zip_file_attributes_init(3), zip_file_extra_field_delete(3), zip_file_extra_field_get(3), zip_file_extra_fields_count(3), zip_file_extra_field_set(3), zip_file_get_comment(3), zip_file_get_error(3), zip_file_get_external_attributes(3), zip_file_rename(3), zip_file_set_comment(3), zip_file_set_dostime(3), zip_file_set_encryption(3), zip_file_set_external_attributes(3), zip_fopen(3), zip_fopen_encrypted(3), zip_fread(3), zip_fseek(3), zip_ftell(3), zip_get_archive_comment(3), zip_get_archive_flag(3), zip_get_error(3), zip_get_file_comment(3), zip_get_name(3), zip_get_num_entries(3), zip_get_num_files(3), zip_libzip_version(3), zipmerge(1), zip_name_locate(3), zip_open(3), zip_register_cancel_callback_with_state(3), zip_register_progress_callback(3), zip_register_progress_callback_with_state(3), zip_rename(3), zip_set_archive_comment(3), zip_set_archive_flag(3), zip_set_default_password(3), zip_set_file_comment(3), zip_set_file_compression(3), zip_source(5), zip_source_begin_write(3), zip_source_buffer(3), zip_source_buffer_fragment(3), zip_source_close(3), zip_source_commit_write(3), zip_source_error(3), zip_source_file(3), zip_source_filep(3), zip_source_free(3), zip_source_function(3), ZIP_SOURCE_GET_ARGS(3), zip_source_is_deleted(3), zip_source_is_seekable(3), zip_source_keep(3), zip_source_layered(3), zip_source_make_command_bitmap(3), zip_source_open(3), zip_source_read(3), zip_source_rollback_write(3), zip_source_seek(3), zip_source_seek_write(3), zip_source_stat(3), zip_source_tell(3), zip_source_tell_write(3), zip_source_win32a(3), zip_source_win32handle(3), zip_source_win32w(3), zip_source_window_create(3), zip_source_write(3), zip_source_zip(3), zip_source_zip_file(3), zip_stat(3), zip_stat_init(3), zip_strerror(3), ziptool(1), zip_unchange(3), zip_unchange_all(3), zip_unchange_archive(3).