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Andres Mejia edited this page Feb 4, 2012 · 1 revision

ARCHIVE_WRITE(3) manual page

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NAME

archive_write_data - functions for creating archives

LIBRARY

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

#include <archive.h>
ssize_t
archive_write_data(struct archive *, const void *, size_t);

DESCRIPTION

Write data corresponding to the header just written.

RETURN VALUES

This function returns the number of bytes actually written, or ```text -1 ``` on error.

ERRORS

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

SEE ALSO

tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write_finish_entry(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)

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