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