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-.TH LIBARCHIVE 3 "August 19, 2006" ""
-.SH NAME
-\fBlibarchive\fP
-\- functions for reading and writing streaming archives
-.SH LIBRARY
-Lb libarchive
-.SH OVERVIEW
-The
-\fBlibarchive\fP
-library provides a flexible interface for reading and writing
-streaming archive files such as tar and cpio.
-The library is inherently stream-oriented; readers serially iterate through
-the archive, writers serially add things to the archive.
-In particular, note that there is no built-in support for
-random access nor for in-place modification.
-When reading an archive, the library automatically detects the
-format and the compression.
-The library currently has read support for:
-.IP \(bu
-old-style tar archives,
-.IP \(bu
-most variants of the POSIX
-``ustar''
-format,
-.IP \(bu
-the POSIX
-``pax interchange''
-format,
-.IP \(bu
-GNU-format tar archives,
-.IP \(bu
-most common cpio archive formats,
-.IP \(bu
-ISO9660 CD images (with or without RockRidge extensions),
-.IP \(bu
-Zip archives.
-The library automatically detects archives compressed with
-\fBgzip\fP(1),
-\fBbzip2\fP(1),
-or
-\fBcompress\fP(1)
-and decompresses them transparently.
-When writing an archive, you can specify the compression
-to be used and the format to use.
-The library can write
-.IP \(bu
-POSIX-standard
-``ustar''
-archives,
-.IP \(bu
-POSIX
-``pax interchange format''
-archives,
-.IP \(bu
-POSIX octet-oriented cpio archives,
-.IP \(bu
-two different variants of shar archives.
-Pax interchange format is an extension of the tar archive format that
-eliminates essentially all of the limitations of historic tar formats
-in a standard fashion that is supported
-by POSIX-compliant
-\fBpax\fP(1)
-implementations on many systems as well as several newer implementations of
-\fBtar\fP(1).
-Note that the default write format will suppress the pax extended
-attributes for most entries; explicitly requesting pax format will
-enable those attributes for all entries.
-The read and write APIs are accessed through the
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_XXX\fP
-.hy
-();
-functions and the
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_XXX\fP
-.hy
-();
-functions, respectively, and either can be used independently
-of the other.
-The rest of this manual page provides an overview of the library
-operation.
-More detailed information can be found in the individual manual
-pages for each API or utility function.
-.SH READING AN ARCHIVE
-To read an archive, you must first obtain an initialized
-Tn struct archive
-object from
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_new\fP
-.hy
-(.);
-You can then modify this object for the desired operations with the
-various
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_set_XXX\fP
-.hy
-();
-and
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_support_XXX\fP
-.hy
-();
-functions.
-In particular, you will need to invoke appropriate
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_support_XXX\fP
-.hy
-();
-functions to enable the corresponding compression and format
-support.
-Note that these latter functions perform two distinct operations:
-they cause the corresponding support code to be linked into your
-program, and they enable the corresponding auto-detect code.
-Unless you have specific constraints, you will generally want
-to invoke
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_support_compression_all\fP
-.hy
-();
-and
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_support_format_all\fP
-.hy
-();
-to enable auto-detect for all formats and compression types
-currently supported by the library.
-Once you have prepared the
-Tn struct archive
-object, you call
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_open\fP
-.hy
-();
-to actually open the archive and prepare it for reading.
-There are several variants of this function;
-the most basic expects you to provide pointers to several
-functions that can provide blocks of bytes from the archive.
-There are convenience forms that allow you to
-specify a filename, file descriptor,
-\fI"FILE *"\fP
-.RE
-object, or a block of memory from which to read the archive data.
-Note that the core library makes no assumptions about the
-size of the blocks read;
-callback functions are free to read whatever block size is
-most appropriate for the medium.
-Each archive entry consists of a header followed by a certain
-amount of data.
-You can obtain the next header with
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_next_header\fP
-.hy
-(,);
-which returns a pointer to an
-Tn struct archive_entry
-structure with information about the current archive element.
-If the entry is a regular file, then the header will be followed
-by the file data.
-You can use
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_data\fP
-.hy
-();
-(which works much like the
-\fBread\fP(2)
-system call)
-to read this data from the archive.
-You may prefer to use the higher-level
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_data_skip\fP
-.hy
-(,);
-which reads and discards the data for this entry,
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_data_to_buffer\fP
-.hy
-(,);
-which reads the data into an in-memory buffer,
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_data_to_file\fP
-.hy
-(,);
-which copies the data to the provided file descriptor, or
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_extract\fP
-.hy
-(,);
-which recreates the specified entry on disk and copies data
-from the archive.
-In particular, note that
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_extract\fP
-.hy
-();
-uses the
-Tn struct archive_entry
-structure that you provide it, which may differ from the
-entry just read from the archive.
-In particular, many applications will want to override the
-pathname, file permissions, or ownership.
-Once you have finished reading data from the archive, you
-should call
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_close\fP
-.hy
-();
-to close the archive, then call
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_finish\fP
-.hy
-();
-to release all resources, including all memory allocated by the library.
-The
-\fBarchive_read\fP(3)
-manual page provides more detailed calling information for this API.
-.SH WRITING AN ARCHIVE
-You use a similar process to write an archive.
-The
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_new\fP
-.hy
-();
-function creates an archive object useful for writing,
-the various
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_set_XXX\fP
-.hy
-();
-functions are used to set parameters for writing the archive, and
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_open\fP
-.hy
-();
-completes the setup and opens the archive for writing.
-Individual archive entries are written in a three-step
-process:
-You first initialize a
-Tn struct archive_entry
-structure with information about the new entry.
-At a minimum, you should set the pathname of the
-entry and provide a
-\fIstruct\fP stat
-with a valid
-\fIst_mode\fP
-field, which specifies the type of object and
-\fIst_size\fP
-field, which specifies the size of the data portion of the object.
-The
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_header\fP
-.hy
-();
-function actually writes the header data to the archive.
-You can then use
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_data\fP
-.hy
-();
-to write the actual data.
-After all entries have been written, use the
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_finish\fP
-.hy
-();
-function to release all resources.
-The
-\fBarchive_write\fP(3)
-manual page provides more detailed calling information for this API.
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-Detailed descriptions of each function are provided by the
-corresponding manual pages.
-All of the functions utilize an opaque
-Tn struct archive
-datatype that provides access to the archive contents.
-The
-Tn struct archive_entry
-structure contains a complete description of a single archive
-entry.
-It uses an opaque interface that is fully documented in
-\fBarchive_entry\fP(3).
-Users familiar with historic formats should be aware that the newer
-variants have eliminated most restrictions on the length of textual fields.
-Clients should not assume that filenames, link names, user names, or
-group names are limited in length.
-In particular, pax interchange format can easily accommodate pathnames
-in arbitrary character sets that exceed
-\fIPATH_MAX\fP.
-.SH RETURN VALUES
-Most functions return zero on success, non-zero on error.
-The return value indicates the general severity of the error, ranging
-from
-\fBARCHIVE_WARN\fP,
-which indicates a minor problem that should probably be reported
-to the user, to
-\fBARCHIVE_FATAL\fP,
-which indicates a serious problem that will prevent any further
-operations on this archive.
-On error, the
-.nh
-\fBarchive_errno\fP
-.hy
-();
-function can be used to retrieve a numeric error code (see
-\fBerrno\fP(2)).
-The
-.nh
-\fBarchive_error_string\fP
-.hy
-();
-returns a textual error message suitable for display.
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_new\fP
-.hy
-();
-and
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_new\fP
-.hy
-();
-return pointers to an allocated and initialized
-Tn struct archive
-object.
-.nh
-\fBarchive_read_data\fP
-.hy
-();
-and
-.nh
-\fBarchive_write_data\fP
-.hy
-();
-return a count of the number of bytes actually read or written.
-A value of zero indicates the end of the data for this entry.
-A negative value indicates an error, in which case the
-.nh
-\fBarchive_errno\fP
-.hy
-();
-and
-.nh
-\fBarchive_error_string\fP
-.hy
-();
-functions can be used to obtain more information.
-.SH ENVIRONMENT
-There are character set conversions within the
-\fBarchive_entry\fP(3)
-functions that are impacted by the currently-selected locale.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBtar\fP(1),
-\fBarchive_entry\fP(3),
-\fBarchive_read\fP(3),
-\fBarchive_util\fP(3),
-\fBarchive_write\fP(3),
-\fBtar\fP(5)
-.SH HISTORY
-The
-\fBlibarchive\fP
-library first appeared in
-FreeBSD 5.3.
-.SH AUTHORS
--nosplit
-The
-\fBlibarchive\fP
-library was written by
-Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org.>
-.SH BUGS
-Some archive formats support information that is not supported by
-Tn struct archive_entry.
-Such information cannot be fully archived or restored using this library.
-This includes, for example, comments, character sets,
-or the arbitrary key/value pairs that can appear in
-pax interchange format archives.
-Conversely, of course, not all of the information that can be
-stored in an
-Tn struct archive_entry
-is supported by all formats.
-For example, cpio formats do not support nanosecond timestamps;
-old tar formats do not support large device numbers.