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.Dd January 15, 2017
.Dt GZFREAD 3
.Os
.
.Sh NAME
.Nm gzfread
.Nd read from compressed file
.
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libz
.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In zlib.h
.Ft z_size_t
.Fn gzfread "voidp buf" "z_size_t size" "z_size_t nitems" "gzFile file"
.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Read up to
.Fa nitems
of size
.Fa size
from
.Fa file
to
.Fa buf ,
otherwise operating as
.Xr gzread 3
does.
This duplicates the interface of stdio's
.Xr fread 3 ,
with
.Vt size_t
request and return types.
If the library defines
.Vt size_t ,
then
.Vt z_size_t
is identical to
.Vt size_t .
If not,
then
.Vt z_size_t
is an unsigned integer type
that can contain a pointer.
.
.Pp
In the event that the end of file is reached
and only a partial item is available at the end,
i.e. the remaining uncompressed data length
is not a multiple of
.Fa size ,
then the file partial item
is nevertheless read into
.Fa buf
and the end-of-file flag is set.
The length of the partial item read
is not provided,
but could be inferred from the result of
.Xr gztell 3 .
This behavior is the same as the behavior of
.Xr fread 3
implementations in common libraries,
but it prevents the direct use of
.Fn gzfread
to read a concurrently written file,
reseting and retrying on end-of-file,
when
.Fa size
is not 1.
.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn gzfread
returns the number of full items read of size
.Fa size ,
or zero if the end of the file was reached
and a full item could not be read,
or if there was an error.
.Xr gzerror 3
must be consulted if zero is returned
in order to determine if there was an error.
If the multiplication of
.Fa size
and
.Fa nitems
overflows,
i.e. the product does not fit in
.Vt z_size_t ,
then nothing is read,
zero is returned,
and the error state is set to
.Dv Z_STREAM_ERROR .
.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr gzeof 3 ,
.Xr gzerror 3 ,
.Xr gzopen 3 ,
.Xr gzread 3
.
.Sh HISTORY
This manual page was converted from
.In zlib.h
to mdoc format by
.An C. McEnroe Aq Mt june@causal.agency .
.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Jean-loup Gailly Aq Mt jloup@gzip.org
.An Mark Adler Aq Mt madler@alumni.caltech.edu
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