archive_read_new - Man Page

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

#include <archive.h>

struct archive *
archive_read_new(void);

Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an archive. NULL is returned on error.

A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3).

tar(1), archive_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3), archive_read_set_options(3), archive_util(3), libarchive(3), tar(5)

archive_read(3), archive_read_free(3).