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ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW (3) 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), archive_write (3), archive_write_set_options (3), libarchive (3), cpio (5), mtree (5), tar (5) Debian February 2, 2012 ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW (3)