ZIP_ERROR_SYSTEM_TYPE(3)

💖 ZIP_ERROR_SYSTEM_TYPE 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're diving into libzip's manual pages and honestly? it's giving ✨main character energy✨. this one lives in the Library Functions Manual and it's all about peeking at why a system error is being so dramatic. let's go 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

zip_error_system_type — return type of system error

like, it literally tells you what flavor of system error you're dealing with. no cap.

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🎀 LIBRARY 🎀

libzip (-lzip)

that's the one you link against, bestie. don't forget the -lzip or the linker will simply pass away 💀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <zip.h>

int
zip_error_system_type(const zip_error_t *ze);

so you gotta pull in <zip.h> first, and then this lil function takes one pointer to a zip_error_t and hands you back an int. that's it. that's the whole vibe 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so zip_error_system_type() returns the type of the system specific part for the zip_error ze. basically it's asking: "hey, what's going on with the system-y half of this error?" 👑

currently, the following system types are defined — and these are the only ones, periodt:

• ZIP_ET_NONE — the system specific part of ze is unused. it's just sitting there, unbothered, moisturized, in its lane 🙈
• ZIP_ET_SYS — the system specific part of ze is an errno(2). classic system error behavior, honestly iconic.
• ZIP_ET_ZLIB — the system specific part of ze is a zlib(3) error. zlib said "I'll handle this one" 💜

so yeah, three possibilities. pick your fighter. 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• libzip(3)
• zip_error_code_system(3)

go read these too, bestie, they're the friends of this page and they ate fr fr 💖

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

zip_error_system_type() was added in libzip 1.0. so it's been around for a minute — a true veteran of the libzip cinematic universe 👑

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🦋 AUTHORS 🦋

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

two absolute legends. we stan. 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one shipped with Debian on December 18, 2017 — so if you were out here living your life that winter, this page was already doing its thing. slay 💅✨🎀