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 -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)