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+<p valign="top">archive_write(3) FreeBSD Library Functions
+Manual archive_write(3)</p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>NAME</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;"><b>archive_write_new</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_format_cpio</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_format_pax</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_format_shar</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_format_shar_binary</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_format_ustar</b>,
+<b>archive_write_get_bytes_per_block</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_bytes_per_block</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_bytes_in_last_block</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_bzip2</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_compress</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_gzip</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_none</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_program</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_compressor_options</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_format_options</b>,
+<b>archive_write_set_options</b>, <b>archive_write_open</b>,
+<b>archive_write_open_fd</b>,
+<b>archive_write_open_FILE</b>,
+<b>archive_write_open_filename</b>,
+<b>archive_write_open_memory</b>,
+<b>archive_write_header</b>, <b>archive_write_data</b>,
+<b>archive_write_finish_entry</b>,
+<b>archive_write_close</b>, <b>archive_write_finish</b>
+&mdash; functions for creating archives</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>SYNOPSIS</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;"><b>#include
+&lt;archive.h&gt;</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>struct
+archive *</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_new</b>(<i>void</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_get_bytes_per_block</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_bytes_per_block</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>int&nbsp;bytes_per_block</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_bytes_in_last_block</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>int</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_compression_bzip2</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_compression_compress</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_compression_gzip</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_compression_none</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_compression_program</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;cmd</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_format_cpio</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_format_pax</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_format_shar</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_format_shar_binary</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_format_ustar</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_format_options</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_compressor_options</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_set_options</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p valign="top"><b>archive_write_open</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>void&nbsp;*client_data</i>,
+<i>archive_open_callback&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>archive_write_callback&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>archive_close_callback&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_open_fd</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>int&nbsp;fd</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_open_FILE</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>FILE&nbsp;*file</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_open_filename</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*filename</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p valign="top"><b>archive_write_open_memory</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>void&nbsp;*buffer</i>, <i>size_t&nbsp;bufferSize</i>,
+<i>size_t&nbsp;*outUsed</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_header</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>struct&nbsp;archive_entry&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>ssize_t</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_data</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>const&nbsp;void&nbsp;*</i>, <i>size_t</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_finish_entry</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_close</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><i>int</i></p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:14%;"><b>archive_write_finish</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>);</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">These functions provide a
+complete API for creating streaming archive files. The
+general process is to first create the struct archive
+object, set any desired options, initialize the archive,
+append entries, then close the archive and release all
+resources. The following summary describes the functions in
+approximately the order they are ordinarily used:</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_new</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Allocates and initializes a
+struct archive object suitable for writing a tar
+archive.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_set_bytes_per_block</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Sets the block size used for
+writing the archive data. Every call to the write callback
+function, except possibly the last one, will use this value
+for the length. The third parameter is a boolean that
+specifies whether or not the final block written will be
+padded to the full block size. If it is zero, the last block
+will not be padded. If it is non-zero, padding will be added
+both before and after compression. The default is to use a
+block size of 10240 bytes and to pad the last block. Note
+that a block size of zero will suppress internal blocking
+and cause writes to be sent directly to the write callback
+as they occur.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_get_bytes_per_block</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Retrieve the block size to be
+used for writing. A value of -1 here indicates that the
+library should use default values. A value of zero indicates
+that internal blocking is suppressed.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_set_bytes_in_last_block</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Sets the block size used for
+writing the last block. If this value is zero, the last
+block will be padded to the same size as the other blocks.
+Otherwise, the final block will be padded to a multiple of
+this size. In particular, setting it to 1 will cause the
+final block to not be padded. For compressed output, any
+padding generated by this option is applied only after the
+compression. The uncompressed data is always unpadded. The
+default is to pad the last block to the full block size
+(note that <b>archive_write_open_filename</b>() will set
+this based on the file type). Unlike the other
+&lsquo;&lsquo;set&rsquo;&rsquo; functions, this function can
+be called after the archive is opened.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_get_bytes_in_last_block</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Retrieve the currently-set
+value for last block size. A value of -1 here indicates that
+the library should use default values.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_set_format_cpio</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_format_pax</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_format_shar</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_format_shar_binary</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_format_ustar</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Sets the format that will be
+used for the archive. The library can write POSIX
+octet-oriented cpio format archives, POSIX-standard
+&lsquo;&lsquo;pax interchange&rsquo;&rsquo; format archives,
+traditional &lsquo;&lsquo;shar&rsquo;&rsquo; archives,
+enhanced &lsquo;&lsquo;binary&rsquo;&rsquo; shar archives
+that store a variety of file attributes and handle binary
+files, and POSIX-standard &lsquo;&lsquo;ustar&rsquo;&rsquo;
+archives. The pax interchange format is a
+backwards-compatible tar format that adds key/value
+attributes to each entry and supports arbitrary filenames,
+linknames, uids, sizes, etc. &lsquo;&lsquo;Restricted pax
+interchange format&rsquo;&rsquo; is the library default;
+this is the same as pax format, but suppresses the pax
+extended header for most normal files. In most cases, this
+will result in ordinary ustar archives.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_set_compression_bzip2</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_compress</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_gzip</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_compression_none</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">The resulting archive will be
+compressed as specified. Note that the compressed output is
+always properly blocked.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_set_compression_program</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">The archive will be fed into
+the specified compression program. The output of that
+program is blocked and written to the client write
+callbacks.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_set_compressor_options</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_format_options</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_set_options</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Specifies options that will be
+passed to the currently-enabled compressor and/or format
+writer. The argument is a comma-separated list of individual
+options. Individual options have one of the following
+forms:</p>
+
+<p valign="top"><i>option=value</i></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:32%;">The option/value pair will be
+provided to every module. Modules that do not accept an
+option with this name will ignore it.</p>
+
+<p valign="top"><i>option</i></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:32%; margin-top: 1em">The option will
+be provided to every module with a value of
+&lsquo;&lsquo;1&rsquo;&rsquo;.</p>
+
+<p valign="top"><i>!option</i></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:32%;">The option will be provided to
+every module with a NULL value.</p>
+
+<p valign="top"><i>module:option=value</i>,
+<i>module:option</i>, <i>module:!option</i></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:32%;">As above, but the corresponding
+option and value will be provided only to modules whose name
+matches <i>module</i>.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">The return value will be
+<b>ARCHIVE_OK</b> if any module accepts the option, or
+<b>ARCHIVE_WARN</b> if no module accepted the option, or
+<b>ARCHIVE_FATAL</b> if there was a fatal error while
+attempting to process the option.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%; margin-top: 1em">The currently
+supported options are:</p>
+
+<p valign="top">Compressor gzip <b><br>
+compression-level</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:45%;">The value is interpreted as a
+decimal integer specifying the gzip compression level.</p>
+
+<p valign="top">Compressor xz <b><br>
+compression-level</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:45%;">The value is interpreted as a
+decimal integer specifying the compression level.</p>
+
+<p valign="top">Format mtree <b><br>
+cksum</b>, <b>device</b>, <b>flags</b>, <b>gid</b>,
+<b>gname</b>, <b>indent</b>, <b>link</b>, <b>md5</b>,
+<b>mode</b>, <b>nlink</b>, <b>rmd160</b>, <b>sha1</b>,
+<b>sha256</b>, <b>sha384</b>, <b>sha512</b>, <b>size</b>,
+<b>time</b>, <b>uid</b>, <b>uname</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:45%;">Enable a particular keyword in
+the mtree output. Prefix with an exclamation mark to disable
+the corresponding keyword. The default is equivalent to
+&lsquo;&lsquo;device, flags, gid, gname, link, mode, nlink,
+size, time, type, uid, uname&rsquo;&rsquo;.</p>
+
+<p valign="top"><b>all</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:45%; margin-top: 1em">Enables all of
+the above keywords.</p>
+
+<p valign="top"><b>use-set</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:45%;">Enables generation of
+<b>/set</b> lines that specify default values for the
+following files and/or directories.</p>
+
+<p valign="top"><b>indent</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:45%; margin-top: 1em">XXX needs
+explanation XXX</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_open</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Freeze the settings, open the
+archive, and prepare for writing entries. This is the most
+generic form of this function, which accepts pointers to
+three callback functions which will be invoked by the
+compression layer to write the constructed archive.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_open_fd</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">A convenience form of
+<b>archive_write_open</b>() that accepts a file descriptor.
+The <b>archive_write_open_fd</b>() function is safe for use
+with tape drives or other block-oriented devices.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_open_FILE</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">A convenience form of
+<b>archive_write_open</b>() that accepts a <i>FILE *</i>
+pointer. Note that <b>archive_write_open_FILE</b>() is not
+safe for writing to tape drives or other devices that
+require correct blocking.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_open_file</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">A deprecated synonym for
+<b>archive_write_open_filename</b>().</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_open_filename</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">A convenience form of
+<b>archive_write_open</b>() that accepts a filename. A NULL
+argument indicates that the output should be written to
+standard output; an argument of
+&lsquo;&lsquo;-&rsquo;&rsquo; will open a file with that
+name. If you have not invoked
+<b>archive_write_set_bytes_in_last_block</b>(), then
+<b>archive_write_open_filename</b>() will adjust the
+last-block padding depending on the file: it will enable
+padding when writing to standard output or to a character or
+block device node, it will disable padding otherwise. You
+can override this by manually invoking
+<b>archive_write_set_bytes_in_last_block</b>() before
+calling <b>archive_write_open</b>(). The
+<b>archive_write_open_filename</b>() function is safe for
+use with tape drives or other block-oriented devices.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_open_memory</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">A convenience form of
+<b>archive_write_open</b>() that accepts a pointer to a
+block of memory that will receive the archive. The final
+<i>size_t *</i> argument points to a variable that will be
+updated after each write to reflect how much of the buffer
+is currently in use. You should be careful to ensure that
+this variable remains allocated until after the archive is
+closed.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_header</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">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.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_data</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Write data corresponding to the
+header just written. Returns number of bytes written or -1
+on error.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_finish_entry</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Close out the entry just
+written. In particular, this writes out the final padding
+required by some formats. Ordinarily, clients never need to
+call this, as it is called automatically by
+<b>archive_write_next_header</b>() and
+<b>archive_write_close</b>() as needed.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_close</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Complete the archive and invoke
+the close callback.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>archive_write_finish</b>()</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:20%;">Invokes
+<b>archive_write_close</b>() if it was not invoked manually,
+then releases all resources. Note that this function was
+declared to return <i>void</i> in libarchive 1.x, which made
+it impossible to detect errors when
+<b>archive_write_close</b>() was invoked implicitly from
+this function. This is corrected beginning with libarchive
+2.0.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">More information about the
+<i>struct archive</i> object and the overall design of the
+library can be found in the libarchive(3) overview.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>IMPLEMENTATION</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">Compression support is built-in
+to libarchive, which uses zlib and bzlib to handle gzip and
+bzip2 compression, respectively.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>CLIENT
+CALLBACKS</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">To use this library, you will
+need to define and register callback functions that will be
+invoked to write data to the resulting archive. These
+functions are registered by calling
+<b>archive_write_open</b>():</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em"><i>typedef
+int</i> <b>archive_open_callback</b>(<i>struct archive
+*</i>, <i>void *client_data</i>)</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em">The open
+callback is invoked by <b>archive_write_open</b>(). It
+should return <b>ARCHIVE_OK</b> if the underlying file or
+data source is successfully opened. If the open fails, it
+should call <b>archive_set_error</b>() to register an error
+code and message and return <b>ARCHIVE_FATAL</b>.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em"><i>typedef
+ssize_t</i></p>
+
+
+<p valign="top"><b>archive_write_callback</b>(<i>struct&nbsp;archive&nbsp;*</i>,
+<i>void&nbsp;*client_data</i>,
+<i>const&nbsp;void&nbsp;*buffer</i>,
+<i>size_t&nbsp;length</i>)</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em">The write
+callback is invoked whenever the library needs to write raw
+bytes to the archive. For correct blocking, each call to the
+write callback function should translate into a single
+write(2) system call. This is especially critical when
+writing archives to tape drives. On success, the write
+callback should return the number of bytes actually written.
+On error, the callback should invoke
+<b>archive_set_error</b>() to register an error code and
+message and return -1.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em"><i>typedef
+int</i> <b>archive_close_callback</b>(<i>struct archive
+*</i>, <i>void *client_data</i>)</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em">The close
+callback is invoked by archive_close when the archive
+processing is complete. The callback should return
+<b>ARCHIVE_OK</b> on success. On failure, the callback
+should invoke <b>archive_set_error</b>() to register an
+error code and message and return <b>ARCHIVE_FATAL.</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>EXAMPLE</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">The following sketch illustrates
+basic usage of the library. In this example, the callback
+functions are simply wrappers around the standard open(2),
+write(2), and close(2) system calls.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">#ifdef
+__linux__</p>
+
+<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
+ cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="17%"></td>
+<td width="12%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">#define</p></td>
+<td width="13%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">_FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64</p></td>
+<td width="58%">
+</td>
+</table>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%;">#endif <br>
+#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt; <br>
+#include &lt;archive.h&gt; <br>
+#include &lt;archive_entry.h&gt; <br>
+#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt; <br>
+#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt; <br>
+#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">struct mydata
+{</p>
+
+<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
+ cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">const char *name;</p></td>
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">int fd;</p></td>
+</table>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%;">};</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">int <br>
+myopen(struct archive *a, void *client_data) <br>
+{ <br>
+struct mydata *mydata = client_data;</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">mydata-&gt;fd =
+open(mydata-&gt;name, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0644); <br>
+if (mydata-&gt;fd &gt;= 0) <br>
+return (ARCHIVE_OK); <br>
+else <br>
+return (ARCHIVE_FATAL); <br>
+}</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">ssize_t <br>
+mywrite(struct archive *a, void *client_data, const void
+*buff, size_t n) <br>
+{ <br>
+struct mydata *mydata = client_data;</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">return
+(write(mydata-&gt;fd, buff, n)); <br>
+}</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">int <br>
+myclose(struct archive *a, void *client_data) <br>
+{ <br>
+struct mydata *mydata = client_data;</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">if
+(mydata-&gt;fd &gt; 0) <br>
+close(mydata-&gt;fd); <br>
+return (0); <br>
+}</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">void <br>
+write_archive(const char *outname, const char **filename)
+<br>
+{ <br>
+struct mydata *mydata = malloc(sizeof(struct mydata)); <br>
+struct archive *a; <br>
+struct archive_entry *entry; <br>
+struct stat st; <br>
+char buff[8192]; <br>
+int len; <br>
+int fd;</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">a =
+archive_write_new(); <br>
+mydata-&gt;name = outname; <br>
+archive_write_set_compression_gzip(a); <br>
+archive_write_set_format_ustar(a); <br>
+archive_write_open(a, mydata, myopen, mywrite, myclose);
+<br>
+while (*filename) { <br>
+stat(*filename, &amp;st); <br>
+entry = archive_entry_new(); <br>
+archive_entry_copy_stat(entry, &amp;st); <br>
+archive_entry_set_pathname(entry, *filename); <br>
+archive_write_header(a, entry); <br>
+fd = open(*filename, O_RDONLY); <br>
+len = read(fd, buff, sizeof(buff)); <br>
+while ( len &gt; 0 ) {</p>
+
+<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
+ cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">archive_write_data(a, buff, len);</p></td>
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">len = read(fd, buff, sizeof(buff));</p></td>
+</table>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%;">} <br>
+archive_entry_free(entry); <br>
+filename++; <br>
+} <br>
+archive_write_finish(a); <br>
+}</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%; margin-top: 1em">int main(int
+argc, const char **argv) <br>
+{</p>
+
+<table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void"
+ cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">const char *outname;</p></td>
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">argv++;</p></td>
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">outname = argv++;</p></td>
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">write_archive(outname, argv);</p></td>
+<tr valign="top" align="left">
+<td width="29%"></td>
+<td width="71%">
+
+
+<p valign="top">return 0;</p></td>
+</table>
+
+<p style="margin-left:17%;">}</p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>RETURN
+VALUES</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">Most functions return
+<b>ARCHIVE_OK</b> (zero) on success, or one of several
+non-zero error codes for errors. Specific error codes
+include: <b>ARCHIVE_RETRY</b> for operations that might
+succeed if retried, <b>ARCHIVE_WARN</b> for unusual
+conditions that do not prevent further operations, and
+<b>ARCHIVE_FATAL</b> for serious errors that make remaining
+operations impossible. The <b>archive_errno</b>() and
+<b>archive_error_string</b>() functions can be used to
+retrieve an appropriate error code and a textual error
+message.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><b>archive_write_new</b>()
+returns a pointer to a newly-allocated struct archive
+object.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em"><b>archive_write_data</b>()
+returns a count of the number of bytes actually written. On
+error, -1 is returned and the <b>archive_errno</b>() and
+<b>archive_error_string</b>() functions will return
+appropriate values. Note that if the client-provided write
+callback function returns a non-zero value, that error will
+be propagated back to the caller through whatever API
+function resulted in that call, which may include
+<b>archive_write_header</b>(), <b>archive_write_data</b>(),
+<b>archive_write_close</b>(), or
+<b>archive_write_finish</b>(). The client callback can call
+<b>archive_set_error</b>() to provide values that can then
+be retrieved by <b>archive_errno</b>() and
+<b>archive_error_string</b>().</p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>SEE ALSO</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">tar(1), libarchive(3),
+tar(5)</p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>HISTORY</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">The <b>libarchive</b> library
+first appeared in FreeBSD&nbsp;5.3.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>AUTHORS</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">The <b>libarchive</b> library
+was written by Tim Kientzle
+&lang;kientzle@acm.org&rang;.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>BUGS</b></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%;">There are many peculiar bugs in
+historic tar implementations that may cause certain programs
+to reject archives written by this library. For example,
+several historic implementations calculated header checksums
+incorrectly and will thus reject valid archives; GNU tar
+does not fully support pax interchange format; some old tar
+implementations required specific field terminations.</p>
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em">The default pax
+interchange format eliminates most of the historic tar
+limitations and provides a generic key/value attribute
+facility for vendor-defined extensions. One oversight in
+POSIX is the failure to provide a standard attribute for
+large device numbers. This library uses
+&lsquo;&lsquo;SCHILY.devminor&rsquo;&rsquo; and
+&lsquo;&lsquo;SCHILY.devmajor&rsquo;&rsquo; for device
+numbers that exceed the range supported by the
+backwards-compatible ustar header. These keys are compatible
+with Joerg Schilling&rsquo;s <b>star</b> archiver. Other
+implementations may not recognize these keys and will thus
+be unable to correctly restore device nodes with large
+device numbers from archives created by this library.</p>
+
+
+<p style="margin-left:8%; margin-top: 1em">FreeBSD&nbsp;8.0
+May&nbsp;11, 2008 FreeBSD&nbsp;8.0</p>
+<hr>
+</body>
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