ZIP_SOURCE_TELL_WRITE(3)

💖 ZIP_SOURCE_TELL_WRITE(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for zip_source_tell_write(3) and it's genuinely one of the cutest little functions in libzip. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

zip_source_tell_write — report current write offset in zip source

basically it's the "where am I rn" of writing to a zip source. main character energy: it knows its position at all times 💅

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

libzip (-lzip)

yeah so you gotta link against libzip with -lzip when you compile. that's the vibe. ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <zip.h>

zip_int64_t
zip_source_tell_write(zip_source_t *source);

look at her. so simple. so iconic. 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, the function zip_source_tell_write() returns the current write offset for source. that's it. that's the whole thing. it tells you where you're at when you're writing. ✨

and here's the slay part: the return value can be passed to zip_source_seek_write(3) with whence set to SEEK_SET to return to the same location in the source. so it's like dropping a pin 📍 on your fave spot so you can come back to it later. literally so useful. iykyk.

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💜 RETURN VALUES 💜

• upon successful completion, the current write offset is returned. ate. 👑
• otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in source is set to indicate the error. 😭 so yeah, if you see a -1, something went wrong and source is holding the receipts.

bestie. check that error info. don't just ignore a -1 and move on. that's not the vibe. 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• libzip(3)
• zip_source(5)
• zip_source_begin_write(3)
• zip_source_commit_write(3)
• zip_source_rollback_write(3)
• zip_source_tell(3)
• zip_source_write(3)

the whole friend group fr fr. go read them too, they're all part of the same storyline 🌈

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

zip_source_tell_write() was added in libzip 1.0. so she's been around. a legend from the start 💖

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💅 AUTHORS 💅

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

shoutout to the icons who made this happen 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one shipped on the Debian side back on December 18, 2017, and the manual itself lives with libzip. periodt. 💜✨🌸