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ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER (3) Library Functions Manual ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER (3)

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) Debian February 2, 2012 ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER (3)