Reads at most maxlenbytes from the gziped stream but it
blocks only if gzipreader has no data immediately available. If
the optional outbuf argument is present, it must reference a String, which will receive the data. It raises EOFError on end of file.
static VALUE
rb_gzreader_readpartial(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE obj)
{
struct gzfile *gz = get_gzfile(obj);
VALUE vlen, outbuf;
long len;
rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "11", &vlen, &outbuf);
len = NUM2INT(vlen);
if (len < 0) {
rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "negative length %ld given", len);
}
if (!NIL_P(outbuf))
Check_Type(outbuf, T_STRING);
return gzfile_readpartial(gz, len, outbuf);
}