ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER(3)

NAME
archive_write_header - functions for creating archives

LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h>
int
archive_write_header(struct archive *, struct archive_entry *);

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

RETURN VALUES
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.

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_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)