ZIP_SOURCE_ERROR(3)

💖 ZIP_SOURCE_ERROR(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual and we're talking about zip_source_error — the little function that spills the tea on what went wrong with your data source. it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "tiny function, huge main character energy". let's go 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

zip_source_error — get zip error for data source 👑

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

libzip (-lzip)

yes babe, that's the -lzip flag when you link. don't forget it or the linker will simply perish 😭

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <zip.h>

zip_error_t *
zip_source_error(zip_source_t *source);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, the zip_source_error() function returns the zip error for the data source source. that's it. that's the whole thing. you hand it your source, it hands you back a zip_error_t * telling you what's up with it. iconic behaviour honestly 🎀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• libzip(3)
• zip_error_code_system(3)
• zip_error_code_zip(3)

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

zip_source_error() was added in libzip 1.0. so it's been around since the beginning, a true OG fr fr 💜

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at> — the two legends who made this happen. absolute icons, no cap ✨

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aaaand that's the whole page bestie, you ate that. this lil manual came from Debian and it's dated December 18, 2017, so give it a lil birthday shoutout, mwah 💋🌸🦋