NAME¶

archive_write_header — functions for creating archives

LIBRARY¶

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <archive.h>

int
archive_write_header(struct archive *, struct archive_entry *);

DESCRIPTION¶

Build and write a header using the data in the provided struct archive_entry structure. See archive_entry(3) for information on creating and populating struct archive_entry objects.

RETURN VALUES¶

This function returns ARCHIVE_OK on success, or one of the following on error: ARCHIVE_RETRY for operations that might succeed if retried, ARCHIVE_WARN for unusual conditions that do not prevent further operations, and ARCHIVE_FATAL for serious errors that make remaining operations impossible.

ERRORS¶

Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.

SEE ALSO¶

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