NAME¶

archive_write_new — functions for creating archives

LIBRARY¶

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <archive.h>

struct archive *
archive_write_new(void);

DESCRIPTION¶

Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for writing a tar archive. NULL is returned on error.

A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3).

SEE ALSO¶

tar(1), archive_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), libarchive(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)