ZIP_FREAD(3) Library Functions Manual ZIP_FREAD(3)

zip_fread
read from file

libzip (-lzip)

#include <zip.h>

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

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

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

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

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.

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
December 18, 2017 NiH