ARCHIVE_UTIL(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ARCHIVE_UTIL(3)NAME
archive_clear_error, archive_compression, archive_compression_name,
archive_copy_error, archive_errno, archive_error_string,
archive_file_count, archive_format, archive_format_name,
archive_set_error — libarchive utility functions
SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h>
void
archive_clear_error(struct archive *);
int
archive_compression(struct archive *);
const char *
archive_compression_name(struct archive *);
void
archive_copy_error(struct archive *, struct archive *);
int
archive_errno(struct archive *);
const char *
archive_error_string(struct archive *);
int
archive_file_count(struct archive *);
int
archive_format(struct archive *);
const char *
archive_format_name(struct archive *);
void
archive_set_error(struct archive *, int error_code, const char *fmt,
...);
DESCRIPTION
These functions provide access to various information about the struct
archive object used in the libarchive(3) library.
archive_clear_error()
Clears any error information left over from a previous call. Not
generally used in client code.
archive_compression()
Returns a numeric code indicating the current compression. This
value is set by archive_read_open().
archive_compression_name()
Returns a text description of the current compression suitable
for display.
archive_copy_error()
Copies error information from one archive to another.
archive_errno()
Returns a numeric error code (see errno(2)) indicating the reason
for the most recent error return.
archive_error_string()
Returns a textual error message suitable for display. The error
message here is usually more specific than that obtained from
passing the result of archive_errno() to strerror(3).
archive_file_count()
Returns a count of the number of files processed by this archive
object. The count is incremented by calls to
archive_write_header or archive_read_next_header.
archive_format()
Returns a numeric code indicating the format of the current ar‐
chive entry. This value is set by a successful call to
archive_read_next_header(). Note that it is common for this
value to change from entry to entry. For example, a tar archive
might have several entries that utilize GNU tar extensions and
several entries that do not. These entries will have different
format codes.
archive_format_name()
A textual description of the format of the current entry.
archive_set_error()
Sets the numeric error code and error description that will be
returned by archive_errno() and archive_error_string(). This
function should be used within I/O callbacks to set system-spe‐
cific error codes and error descriptions. This function accepts
a printf-like format string and arguments. However, you should
be careful to use only the following printf format specifiers:
“%c”, “%d”, “%jd”, “%jo”, “%ju”, “%jx”, “%ld”, “%lo”, “%lu”,
“%lx”, “%o”, “%u”, “%s”, “%x”, “%%”. Field-width specifiers and
other printf features are not uniformly supported and should not
be used.
SEE ALSOarchive_read(3), archive_write(3), libarchive(3), printf(3)HISTORY
The libarchive library first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS
The libarchive library was written by Tim Kientzle ⟨kientzle@acm.org⟩.
BSD January 8, 2005 BSD
