archive_write_header — functions for creating archives

Build and write a header using the data in the provided struct archive_entry structure. See archive_entry(3) for information on creating and populating struct archive_entry objects.

Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

archive_write_header — functions for creating archives

This function returns ARCHIVE_OK on success, or one of the following on error: ARCHIVE_RETRY for operations that might succeed if retried, ARCHIVE_WARN for unusual conditions that do not prevent further operations, and ARCHIVE_FATAL for serious errors that make remaining operations impossible.

tar(1), archive_write_set_options(3), libarchive(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5) Debian February 2, 2012 ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER(3)

#include<archive.h>intarchive_write_header(structarchive*, structarchive_entry*);