Commit Graph

13 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ruslan Ermilov
de599f05ea Fix prototypes. 2005-11-24 10:06:05 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
43b1ef9bc2 Fix one error in the example usage of the archive_write API and fill
in a few missing details.  The example code here is now a complete,
functioning example program.
2005-06-04 22:19:25 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
0227791b40 Expand *n't contractions. 2005-02-13 22:25:33 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
09cad9b550 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
Tim Kientzle
67afe2c071 Correctly document the order of arguments
to archive_read_open and archive_write_open.

Thanks to: Antony Dovgal
2005-01-08 18:32:49 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
3ede53f3e1 Clean up the error handling in the
write path.  In particular, this should
solve some problems people have seen with
bsdtar not exiting on various write errors.
2004-11-05 05:26:30 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
91ce8f27d8 Split archive_{read,write}_finish into separate "close" (finish the archive
and close it) and "finish" (destroy the object) functions.   For backwards
compat and simplicity, have "finish" invoke "close" transparently if needed.
This allows clients to close the archive and check end-of-operation
statistics before destroying the object.
2004-08-07 19:22:50 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
2859e75d07 Minor wordsmithing; remove a controversial colon. 2004-07-05 19:44:35 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
7228b0c18b ru@'s ambitious sweep through the manpages is mostly a good thing,
but some colons are supposed to be followed by uppercase letters.
2004-07-05 18:08:32 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
284fcee0c0 Fixed cross-references in SEE ALSO.
Emininated double space and hard sentence breaks.
2004-07-04 21:15:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
1a0a934547 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 23:52:20 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
71b44796d9 Overhauled ACL support. This makes us compatible
with 'star' ACL handling, though there's still a
bit more work needed in this area.

Added 'write_open_fd' and 'read_open_fd' to simplify, e.g.,
tar's u and r modes.  Eliminated old 'write_open_file_position'
as a bad idea.  (It required closing/reopening files to
do updates, which led to unpleasant implications.)

Various other minor fixes, API tweaks, etc.
2004-04-05 21:12:29 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
2710e4d1ef 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