zip_source_seek(3)

zip_source_seek3

Set read offset in zip source

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

zip_source_seek(zip_source_t *source, zip_int64_t offset, int whence);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The function zip_source_seek() sets the current read offset for source. Just like in fseek(3), depending on the whence argument, the offset is counted relative from:

SEEK_SET

start of file

SEEK_CUR

current read offset in file

SEEK_END

end of file

Return values

Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in source is set to indicate the error.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10–12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

History

zip_source_seek() was added in libzip 1.0.

Authors

Dieter Baron ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Thomas Klausner ⟨[email protected]⟩

From libzip 1.11.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.