Tclzipfs(3tcl)

💖 Tclzipfs — Tcl Library Procedures 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're talking about the Tcl Library Procedures page Tclzipfs(3tcl) and it's literally giving "your ZIP files are a whole entire filesystem now" energy. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

TclZipfs_AppHook, TclZipfs_Mount, TclZipfs_MountBuffer, TclZipfs_Unmount — handle ZIP files as Tcl virtual filesystems 🗂️✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

const char *
TclZipfs_AppHook(argcPtr, argvPtr)

int
TclZipfs_Mount(interp, zipname, mountpoint, password)

int
TclZipfs_MountBuffer(interp, data, dataLen, mountpoint, copy)

int
TclZipfs_Unmount(interp, mountpoint)

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• int *argcPtr (in) — Pointer to a variable holding the number of command line arguments from main(). 💅
• char ***argvPtr (in) — Pointer to an array of strings containing the command line arguments to main().
• Tcl_Interp *interp (in) — Interpreter in which the ZIP file system is mounted. The interpreter's result gets modified to hold the result or the error message from the script. 👑
• const char *zipname (in) — Name of a ZIP file. Must not be NULL when either mounting or unmounting a ZIP. 🚫
• const char *mountpoint (in) — Name of a mount point, which must be a legal Tcl file or directory name. May be NULL to query current mount points. 🧚
• const char *password (in) — An (optional) password. Use NULL if no password is wanted to read the file.
• const void *data (in) — A data buffer to mount. The data buffer must hold the contents of a ZIP archive, and must not be NULL. 💀
• size_t dataLen (in) — The number of bytes in the supplied data buffer argument, data.
• int copy (in) — If non-zero, the ZIP archive in the data buffer will be internally copied before mounting, allowing the data buffer to be disposed once TclZipfs_MountBuffer returns. If zero, the caller guarantees that the buffer will be valid to read from for the duration of the mount. ⚠️ (so like, zero means you are responsible for keeping that memory alive, bestie, no takebacks)

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

TclZipfs_AppHook is a utility function that does the standard application initialization procedures, taking into account available ZIP archives, like so:

1. If the current application has a mountable ZIP archive, that archive is mounted under ZIPFS_VOLUME/app as a read-only Tcl virtual file system (VFS). The value of ZIPFS_VOLUME can be retrieved using the Tcl command zipfs root. 🎀
2. If a file named main.tcl is located in the root directory of that file system (i.e., at ZIPFS_VOLUME/app/main.tcl after the ZIP archive is mounted as described above) it is treated as the startup script for the process. ✨
3. If the file ZIPFS_VOLUME/app/tcl_library/init.tcl is present, the tcl_library global variable in the initial Tcl interpreter is set to ZIPFS_VOLUME/app/tcl_library.
4. If the directory tcl_library was not found in the main application mount, the system will then search for it as either a VFS attached to the application dynamic library, or as a zip archive named libtcl_major_minor_patchlevel.zip either in the present working directory or in the standard Tcl install location. (For example, the Tcl 9.0.2 release would be searched for in a file libtcl_9_0_2.zip.) That archive, if located, is also mounted read-only. 🔍

On Windows, TclZipfs_AppHook has a slightly different signature, since it uses WCHAR instead of char. As a result, it requires the application to be compiled with the UNICODE preprocessor symbol defined (e.g., via the -DUNICODE compiler flag). 🪟

The result of TclZipfs_AppHook is the full Tcl version with build information (e.g., 9.0.0+abcdef...abcdef.gcc-1002). The function may modify the variables pointed to by argcPtr and argvPtr to remove arguments; the current implementation does not do so, but callers should not assume that this will be true in the future. 👀

TclZipfs_Mount is used to mount ZIP archives and to retrieve information about currently mounted archives. If mountpoint and zipname are both specified (i.e. non-NULL), the function mounts the ZIP archive zipname on the mount point given in mountpoint. If password is not NULL, it should point to the NUL terminated password protecting the archive. If not under the zipfs file system root, mountpoint is normalized with respect to it. For example, a mount point passed as either mt or /mt would be normalized to //zipfs:/mt, given that ZIPFS_VOLUME as returned by zipfs root is “//zipfs:/”. An error is raised if the mount point includes a drive or UNC volume. On success, interp's result is set to the normalized mount point path. 🫶

If mountpoint is a NULL pointer, information on all currently mounted ZIP file systems is stored in interp's result as a sequence of mount points and ZIP file names. 📋

If mountpoint is not NULL but zipfile is NULL, the path to the archive mounted at that mount point is stored as interp's result. The function returns a standard Tcl result code.

TclZipfs_MountBuffer mounts the ZIP archive content data on the mount point given in mountpoint. Both mountpoint and data must be specified as non-NULL. The copy argument determines whether the buffer is internally copied before mounting or not. The ZIP archive is assumed to be not password protected. On success, interp's result is set to the normalized mount point path. 🔥

TclZipfs_Unmount undoes the effect of TclZipfs_Mount, i.e., it unmounts the mounted ZIP file system that was mounted from zipname (at mountpoint). Errors are reported in the interpreter interp. The result of this call is a standard Tcl result code. 🌈

⚠️ the way that TclZipfs_AppHook can not be used in stub-enabled extensions. that's just the rules, bestie. 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

zipfs(3tcl)

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⭐ KEYWORDS ⭐

compress, filesystem, zip

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and that's the whole vibe, babe — this was Tclzipfs(3tcl) from Tcl version 9.0. slay, go mount something. 💅✨👑