ZIP_ERROR_GET_SYS_TYPE(3)

✨ ZIP_ERROR_GET_SYS_TYPE 💅

okay bestie, gather round, because we need to talk about zip_error_get_sys_type — she's an iconic little function from the Library Functions Manual section of the libzip docs, but she is also, and I say this with love, obsolete. 🫶

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🦋 NAME 🦋

zip_error_get_sys_type — get the type of a system error code (yes, that's the obsolete interface, no cap, the manpage literally says so 😭)

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

libzip (-lzip)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <zip.h>

int
zip_error_get_sys_type(int ze);

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so listen. The function zip_error_get_sys_type() is deprecated. Like, she still works, but the glow-up already happened and it's giving legacy. Use zip_error_init_with_code(3) and zip_error_system_type(3) instead. ✨

Here's the before pic, if you will — replace this:

int i = zip_error_get_sys_type(ze);

with this:

zip_error_t error;
zip_error_init_with_code(&error, ze);
int i = zip_error_system_type(&error);

see how much cleaner that is?? the way that the modern version actually inits a whole zip_error_t first… main character energy honestly 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• libzip(3)
• zip_error_init_with_code(3)
• zip_error_system_type(3)

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

zip_error_get_sys_type() was added in libzip 0.6. Then in libzip 1.0 she got deprecated — use zip_error_system_type() instead. a whole era, honestly 💀

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one shipped with Debian, dated December 18, 2017, fr fr — k bye, go call zip_error_system_type() instead 💅🌸