Some applications do not require the fine-grained control over IO, but rather just want to process a whole file with a single call. librsync provides whole-file APIs to do exactly that.

These functions open files, process the entire contents, and return an overall result. The whole-file operations are the core of the rdiff command.

This interface is implemented on top of the Streaming API. Processing of a whole file begins with creation of a rs_job_t object for the appropriate operation, just as if the application was going to do buffering itself. After creation, the job may be passed to rs_whole_run(), which will feed it to and from two FILEs as necessary until end of file is reached or the operation completes.

See also: rs_sig_args(); rs_sig_file(); rs_loadsig_file(); rs_delta_file(); rs_patch_file()