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zip_fread (3)

Name

zip_fread - read from file

Synopsis

#include <zip.h>

zip_int64_t
zip_fread(zip_file_t *file, void *buf, zip_uint64_t nbytes);

Description

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NAME
     zip_fread -- read from file

LIBRARY
     libzip (-lzip)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <zip.h>

     zip_int64_t
     zip_fread(zip_file_t *file, void *buf, zip_uint64_t nbytes);

DESCRIPTION
     The zip_fread() function reads at most nbytes bytes from file into buf.

RETURN VALUES
     If successful, the number of bytes actually read is returned.  Otherwise,
     -1 is returned.


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

     +---------------+------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Availability   | compress/libzip  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Stability      | Volatile         |
     +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
     libzip(3), zip_fclose(3), zip_fopen(3), zip_fseek(3)

HISTORY
     zip_fread() was added in libzip 0.6.  In libzip 0.10 the return type was
     changed from ssize_t to zip_int64_t.  In libzip 0.10 the type of nbytes
     was changed from size_t to zip_uint64_t.

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



NOTES
     Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be
     found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-code-
     downloads.html.

     This software was built from source available at https://github.com/ora-
     cle/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from
     https://libzip.org/download/libzip-1.7.3.tar.gz.

     Further information about this software can be found on the open source
     community website at https://libzip.org/.

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