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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.
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114 lines
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.\" Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Tim Kientzle
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd October 1, 2003
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.Dt archive_util 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm archive_compression ,
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.Nm archive_compression_name ,
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.Nm archive_errno ,
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.Nm archive_error_string ,
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.Nm archive_format ,
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.Nm archive_format_name ,
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.Nm archive_set_error
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.Nd libarchive utility functions
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In archive.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn archive_compression "struct archive *"
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.Ft const char *
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.Fn archive_compression_name "struct archive *"
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.Ft int
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.Fn archive_errno "struct archive *"
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.Ft const char *
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.Fn archive_error_string "struct archive *"
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.Ft int
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.Fn archive_format "struct archive *"
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.Ft const char *
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.Fn archive_format_name "struct archive *"
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.Ft int
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.Fn archive_set_error "struct archive *" "int error_code" "const char *fmt" "..."
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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These functions provide access to various information about the
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.Tn struct archive
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object used in the
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.Xr libarchive 3
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library.
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.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
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.It Fn archive_compression
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Returns a numeric code indicating the current compression.
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This value is set by
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.Fn archive_read_open .
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.It Fn archive_compression_name
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Returns a text description of the current compression suitable for display.
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.It Fn archive_errno
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Returns a numeric error code (see
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.Xr errno 2 )
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indicating the reason for the most recent error return.
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.It Fn archive_error_string
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Returns a textual error message suitable for display.
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The error message here is usually more specific than that
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obtained from passing the result of
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.Fn archive_errno
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to
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.Xr strerror 3 .
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.It Fn archive_format
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Returns a numeric code indicating the format of the current
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archive entry.
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This value is set by a successful call to
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.Fn archive_read_next_header .
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Note that it is common for this value to change from
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entry to entry.
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For example, a tar archive might have several entries that
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utilize GNU tar extensions and several entries that do not.
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These entries will have different format codes.
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.It Fn archive_format_name
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A textual description of the format of the current entry.
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.It Fn archive_set_error
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Sets the numeric error code and error description that will be returned
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by
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.Fn archive_errno
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and
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.Fn archive_error_string .
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This function is sometimes useful within I/O callbacks.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr libarchive 3 ,
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.Xr archive_read 3 ,
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.Xr archive_write 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm libarchive
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library first appeared in
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.Fx 5.3 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm libarchive
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library was written by
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.An Tim Kientzle Aq kientzle@acm.org .
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