archive_write_new - Man Page

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

#include <archive.h>

struct archive *
archive_write_new(void);

Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for writing a tar 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_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), libarchive(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)

archive_write(3), archive_write_open(3).