ZIP_SOURCE_KEEP(3)

✨ ZIP_SOURCE_KEEP ✨

okay bestie, so we're in zip_source_keep(3) territory — this one lives in the Library Functions Manual for libzip, and it is genuinely one of the most lowkey important little functions in the whole crew. no cap. 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

zip_source_keep — increment the reference count of a zip data source 🎀

🦋 LIBRARY 🦋

libzip (-lzip) — yeah that's the one, link against it, you got this 💅

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

#include <zip.h>

void
zip_source_keep(zip_source_t *source);

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the way that zip_source_keep() works is... it increments the reference count of source. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

like, if you're about to hand your source off to something else and you don't want it evaporating on you, you bump that refcount so it stays alive. iconic behaviour, honestly. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• libzip(3)
• zip_source(5)
• zip_source_free(3)

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

zip_source_keep() was added in libzip 1.0. so she's been here since the beginning, a true OG fr fr. 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at> — the two icons who made this happen, we stan 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie, no more lore, go bump some refcounts responsibly 🌸

Debian · December 18, 2017 · ZIP_SOURCE_KEEP(3) — mwah, that's a wrap, love u, bye 💅✨