GDAL has a vsipreload.so which you can preload to replace all the libc file handling functions with ones that understand special filesystem paths, like /vsizip/

GDAL has a vsipreload.so which you can preload to replace all the libc file handling functions with ones that understand special filesystem paths, like /vsizip/path/to/zipfile.zip/myfile.csv We used it for years to do remote inspection of zip files without downloading the whole thing. Now there's a proper API for virtual filesystems in GDAL and we don't have to preload any more.