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26.Dd December 6, 2018
27.Dt ZOPEN 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm zopen
31.Nd open a gzip compressed stream
32.Sh LIBRARY
33.Lb libz
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Ft FILE *
36.Fn zopen "const char *path" "const char *mode"
37.Ft FILE *
38.Fn zdopen "int fd" "const char *mode"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Fn zopen
42function opens a gzip file whose name is the string pointed to by
43.Fa path
44and returns a stream which can be used to access the uncompressed contents
45of the file.
46The
47.Fn zdopen
48variant takes a gzip file referenced by the file descriptor
49.Fa fd ,
50analogous to
51.Xr fdopen 3 .
52They are wrappers around
53.Xr zlib 3
54and the standard stream I/O APIs.
55.Pp
56The argument
57.Fa mode
58has the same meaning as it does in
59.Xr fopen 3 .
60.Pp
61The
62.Fn zopen
63and
64.Fn zdopen
65functions will associate the read, write, seek and close
66functions of
67.Xr zlib 3
68with the returned stream.
69.Sh RETURN VALUES
70Upon successful completion
71.Fn zopen
72and
73.Fn zdopen
74return a
75.Tn FILE
76pointer.
77Otherwise,
78.Dv NULL
79is returned and the global variable
80.Va errno
81is set to indicate the error.
82.Sh ERRORS
83In addition to the errors documented for
84.Xr fopen 3
85and
86.Xr fdopen 3 ,
87the functions may also fail for:
88.Bl -tag -width Er
89.It Bq Er ENOMEM
90Insufficient memory is available.
91.El
92.Sh COMPATIBILITY
93The implementation of
94.Fn zopen
95function first appeared in
96.Nx 1.6
97and
98.Fx 4.5 .
99.Fn zdopen
100first appeared in
101.Fx 13.0 .
102These functions may not be portable to systems other than
103.Fx .
104.Sh SEE ALSO
105.Xr fdopen 3 ,
106.Xr fopen 3 ,
107.Xr funopen 3 ,
108.Xr zlib 3
109