Re: using libgsf as unzipper

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013, Morten Welinder wrote:

> I'm not 100% clear on what you are trying to achieve...

Basically (though there's more to it than this) to 
re-implement "unzip" as a libgsf program.

> but there are several ways you can approach this:
>
> 1. You don't have to get the "outfile" from gsf_outfile_new_child_full.  If,
>    for a specific zip file member, you wanted to do something else, then
>    gsf_outfile_stdio_new will give you a perfectly fine GsfOutfile.

Thanks, I'm working in that direction. But since 
gsf_outfile_stdio_new creates a directory one also needs 
gsf_output_stdio_new for plain files at the top level of a zip 
archive.

> or
>
> 2. You can fix gsf_outfile_stdio_new_valist to ignore EEXISTS.  That
>    way "." will become allowed.

It would be nice if there were a switch for that in the API.

Allin Cottrell