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Initial import of libarchive. What it is: A library for reading and writing various streaming archive formats, especially tar and cpio. Being a library, it should be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any other place that needs to read or write such archives. Features: * Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format. * Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats. * Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats. * BSD license Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement. Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and the library could always use more testing. Feedback eagerly solicited.
2004-02-09 23:22:54 +00:00
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Documentation improvements. In particular, expand and clarify the description of the client callback functions and how they should handle errors. Thanks to: Antony Dovgal
2005-01-08 19:51:04 +00:00
.Dd January 8, 2005
Initial import of libarchive. What it is: A library for reading and writing various streaming archive formats, especially tar and cpio. Being a library, it should be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any other place that needs to read or write such archives. Features: * Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format. * Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats. * Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats. * BSD license Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement. Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and the library could always use more testing. Feedback eagerly solicited.
2004-02-09 23:22:54 +00:00
.Dt archive_util 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm archive_compression ,
.Nm archive_compression_name ,
.Nm archive_errno ,
.Nm archive_error_string ,
.Nm archive_format ,
.Nm archive_format_name ,
.Nm archive_set_error
.Nd libarchive utility functions
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In archive.h
.Ft int
.Fn archive_compression "struct archive *"
.Ft const char *
.Fn archive_compression_name "struct archive *"
.Ft int
.Fn archive_errno "struct archive *"
.Ft const char *
.Fn archive_error_string "struct archive *"
.Ft int
.Fn archive_format "struct archive *"
.Ft const char *
.Fn archive_format_name "struct archive *"
.Ft int
.Fn archive_set_error "struct archive *" "int error_code" "const char *fmt" "..."
.Sh DESCRIPTION
These functions provide access to various information about the
.Tn struct archive
object used in the
.Xr libarchive 3
library.
.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
.It Fn archive_compression
Returns a numeric code indicating the current compression.
This value is set by
.Fn archive_read_open .
.It Fn archive_compression_name
Returns a text description of the current compression suitable for display.
.It Fn archive_errno
Returns a numeric error code (see
.Xr errno 2 )
indicating the reason for the most recent error return.
.It Fn archive_error_string
Returns a textual error message suitable for display.
The error message here is usually more specific than that
obtained from passing the result of
.Fn archive_errno
to
.Xr strerror 3 .
.It Fn archive_format
Returns a numeric code indicating the format of the current
archive entry.
This value is set by a successful call to
.Fn archive_read_next_header .
Note that it is common for this value to change from
entry to entry.
For example, a tar archive might have several entries that
utilize GNU tar extensions and several entries that do not.
These entries will have different format codes.
.It Fn archive_format_name
A textual description of the format of the current entry.
.It Fn archive_set_error
Sets the numeric error code and error description that will be returned
by
.Fn archive_errno
and
.Fn archive_error_string .
Documentation improvements. In particular, expand and clarify the description of the client callback functions and how they should handle errors. Thanks to: Antony Dovgal
2005-01-08 19:51:04 +00:00
This function should be used within I/O callbacks to set system-specific
error codes and error descriptions.
This function accepts a printf-like format string and arguments.
However, you should be careful to use only the following printf
format specifiers:
.Dq %c ,
.Dq %d ,
.Dq %jd ,
.Dq %jo ,
.Dq %ju ,
.Dq %jx ,
.Dq %ld ,
.Dq %lo ,
.Dq %lu ,
.Dq %lx ,
.Dq %o ,
.Dq %u ,
.Dq %s ,
.Dq %x ,
.Dq %% .
Field-width specifiers and other printf features are
not uniformly supported and should not be used.
Initial import of libarchive. What it is: A library for reading and writing various streaming archive formats, especially tar and cpio. Being a library, it should be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any other place that needs to read or write such archives. Features: * Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format. * Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats. * Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats. * BSD license Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement. Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and the library could always use more testing. Feedback eagerly solicited.
2004-02-09 23:22:54 +00:00
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr archive_read 3 ,
Fixed cross-references in SEE ALSO. Emininated double space and hard sentence breaks.
2004-07-04 21:15:37 +00:00
.Xr archive_write 3 ,
Documentation improvements. In particular, expand and clarify the description of the client callback functions and how they should handle errors. Thanks to: Antony Dovgal
2005-01-08 19:51:04 +00:00
.Xr libarchive 3 ,
.Xr printf 3
Initial import of libarchive. What it is: A library for reading and writing various streaming archive formats, especially tar and cpio. Being a library, it should be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any other place that needs to read or write such archives. Features: * Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format. * Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats. * Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats. * BSD license Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement. Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and the library could always use more testing. Feedback eagerly solicited.
2004-02-09 23:22:54 +00:00
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm libarchive
library first appeared in
.Fx 5.3 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm libarchive
library was written by
.An Tim Kientzle Aq kientzle@acm.org .
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