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ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER(3)      Library Functions Manual	 ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER(3)

NAME
     archive_write_header -- functions for creating archives

LIBRARY
     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <archive.h>

     int
     archive_write_header(struct archive *, struct archive_entry *);

DESCRIPTION
     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.

RETURN VALUES
     This function returns ARCHIVE_OK on success, or one of the following on er-
     ror:   ARCHIVE_RETRY   for   operations  that  might  succeed  if	retried,
     ARCHIVE_WARN for unusual conditions that do not prevent further operations,
     and ARCHIVE_FATAL for serious errors that make remaining operations  impos-
     sible.

ERRORS
     Detailed  error  codes  and  textual  descriptions  are  available from the
     archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.

SEE ALSO
     tar(1),  archive_write_set_options(3),  libarchive(3),  cpio(5),  mtree(5),
     tar(5)

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	February 2, 2012	 ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER(3)

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