ZIP_SOURCE_TELL(3)

💖 ZIP_SOURCE_TELL — bestie, where even ARE we?? 💖

okay so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual, and today we're talking about zip_source_tell from libzip. it's giving "GPS for your zip source" and honestly? obsessed. 🧭✨

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📚 LIBRARY

libzip — you link it with -lzip and then you're in your ✨zip era✨.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS

#include <zip.h>

zip_int64_t
zip_source_tell(zip_source_t *source);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, zip_source_tell() returns the current read offset for source. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 📍

and the iconic part? the return value can be handed straight to zip_source_seek(3) with whence set to SEEK_SET, and boom — you're right back at the same location in the source. bookmarking but for file offsets, no cap. 🔖💅

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🫶 RETURN VALUES 🫶

• slay: on successful completion, the current read offset is returned. periodt.
• not slay: otherwise, -1 is returned, and the error information in source is set to indicate the error. (yes bestie, the error lives in source itself, go check it 💀)

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• libzip(3)
• zip_source(5)
• zip_source_read(3)
• zip_source_tell_write(3)

iykyk — go read those too, they're all part of the family 🦋

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📜 HISTORY 📜

zip_source_tell() was added in libzip 1.0. so it's been iconic since day one, fr fr. 👑

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the masterminds behind this whole situation: Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at>. absolute legends, we stan. 🎀

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and that's the page bestie!! this one came from the Debian build, dated December 18, 2017, and the manual page itself is ZIP_SOURCE_TELL(3). take care of her, she's precious 💖✨🌸🦋💅