ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3)

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

BSD February 2, 2012 BSD