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Manual Pages — ARCHIVE_READ_NEW

NAME

archive_read_new – functions for reading streaming archives

CONTENTS

LIBRARY
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO

LIBRARY

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

#include <archive.h>

struct archive *
archive_read_new(void);

DESCRIPTION

Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an 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_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3), archive_read_set_options(3), archive_util(3), libarchive(3), tar(5)

ARCHIVE_READ_NEW (3)

February 2, 2012

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