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ARCHIVE_READ_DISK(3)	     Library Functions Manual	    ARCHIVE_READ_DISK(3)

NAME
     archive_read_disk_new,   archive_read_disk_open,  archive_read_disk_open_w,
     archive_read_disk_set_behavior,	  archive_read_disk_set_symlink_logical,
     archive_read_disk_set_symlink_physical,
     archive_read_disk_set_symlink_hybrid,    archive_read_disk_entry_from_file,
     archive_read_disk_gname,				archive_read_disk_uname,
     archive_read_disk_set_uname_lookup,     archive_read_disk_set_gname_lookup,
     archive_read_disk_set_standard_lookup,	      archive_read_disk_descend,
     archive_read_disk_can_descend,	   archive_read_disk_current_filesystem,
     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem_is_synthetic,
     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem_is_remote,
     archive_read_disk_set_matching,
     archive_read_disk_set_metadata_filter_callback, --  functions  for  reading
     objects from disk

LIBRARY
     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <archive.h>

     struct archive *
     archive_read_disk_new(void);

     int
     archive_read_disk_open(struct archive *, const char *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_open_w(struct archive *, const wchar_t *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_behavior(struct archive *, int);

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_symlink_logical(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_symlink_physical(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_symlink_hybrid(struct archive *);

     const char *
     archive_read_disk_gname(struct archive *, gid_t);

     const char *
     archive_read_disk_uname(struct archive *, uid_t);

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_gname_lookup(struct archive *, void *,
	 const char *(*lookup)(void *, gid_t), void (*cleanup)(void *));

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_uname_lookup(struct archive *, void *,
	 const char *(*lookup)(void *, uid_t), void (*cleanup)(void *));

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_standard_lookup(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_entry_from_file(struct archive *, struct archive_entry *,
	 int fd, const struct stat *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_descend(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_can_descend(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem_is_synthetic(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem_is_remote(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_matching(struct archive *, struct archive *,
	 void (*excluded_func)(struct archive *, void *, struct archive entry *),
	 void *);

     int
     archive_read_disk_set_metadata_filter_callback(struct archive *,
	 int (*metadata_filter_func)(struct archive *, void*, struct archive_entry *),
	 void *);

DESCRIPTION
     These  functions  provide	an  API for reading information about objects on
     disk.  In particular, they  provide  an  interface  for  populating  struct
     archive_entry objects.

     archive_read_disk_new()
	     Allocates	and  initializes  a  struct  archive object suitable for
	     reading object information from disk.

     archive_read_disk_open()
	     Opens the file or directory from the given path  and  prepares  the
	     struct archive to read it from disk.

     archive_read_disk_open_w()
	     Opens the file or directory from the given path as a wide character
	     string and prepares the struct archive to read it from disk.

     archive_read_disk_set_behavior()
	     Configures various behavior options when reading entries from disk.
	     The flags field consists of a bitwise OR of one or more of the fol-
	     lowing values:
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_HONOR_NODUMP
		     Skip  files  and directories with the nodump file attribute
		     (file flag) set.  By default, the nodump file attribute  is
		     ignored.
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_MAC_COPYFILE
		     Mac  OS  X  specific.  Read metadata (ACLs and extended at-
		     tributes) with copyfile(3).  By default, metadata	is  read
		     using copyfile(3).
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_NO_ACL
		     Do  not  read  Access  Control Lists.  By default, ACLs are
		     read from disk.
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_NO_FFLAGS
		     Do not read file attributes (file flags).	By default, file
		     attributes are read from disk.  See  chattr(1)  (Linux)  or
		     chflags(1) (FreeBSD, Mac OS X) for more information on file
		     attributes.
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_NO_TRAVERSE_MOUNTS
		     Do not traverse mount points.  By default, mount points are
		     traversed.
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_NO_XATTR
		     Do not read extended file attributes (xattrs).  By default,
		     extended  file attributes are read from disk.  See xattr(7)
		     (Linux), xattr(2) (Mac OS X),  or	getextattr(8)  (FreeBSD)
		     for more information on extended file attributes.
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_RESTORE_ATIME
		     Restore access time of traversed files.  By default, access
		     time of traversed files is not restored.
	     ARCHIVE_READDISK_NO_SPARSE
		     Do  not  read  sparse file information.  By default, sparse
		     file information is read from disk.

     archive_read_disk_set_symlink_logical(),	      archive_read_disk_set_sym-
	     link_physical(), archive_read_disk_set_symlink_hybrid()
	     This sets the mode used for handling symbolic links.  The "logical"
	     mode follows all symbolic links.  The "physical" mode does not fol-
	     low  any symbolic links.  The "hybrid" mode currently behaves iden-
	     tically to the "logical" mode.

     archive_read_disk_gname(), archive_read_disk_uname()
	     Returns a user or group name given a gid or uid value.  By default,
	     these always return a NULL string.

     archive_read_disk_set_gname_lookup(), archive_read_disk_set_uname_lookup()
	     These allow you to override the functions used for user  and  group
	     name  lookups.   You may also provide a void * pointer to a private
	     data structure and a cleanup function for that data.   The  cleanup
	     function  will  be  invoked  when	the struct archive object is de-
	     stroyed or when new lookup functions are registered.

     archive_read_disk_set_standard_lookup()
	     This convenience function installs a standard set of user and group
	     name lookup functions.  These functions use  getpwuid(3)  and  get-
	     grgid(3)  to  convert ids to names, defaulting to NULL if the names
	     cannot be looked up.  These functions also implement a simple  mem-
	     ory  cache  to  reduce  the number of calls to getpwuid(3) and get-
	     grgid(3).

     archive_read_disk_entry_from_file()
	     Populates a struct archive_entry object with  information	about  a
	     particular  file.	 The archive_entry object must have already been
	     created with archive_entry_new(3) and at least one  of  the  source
	     path  or  path  fields  must already be set.  (If both are set, the
	     source path will be used.)

	     Information is read from disk using the path name from  the  struct
	     archive_entry  object.   If a file descriptor is provided, some in-
	     formation will be obtained using that file descriptor, on platforms
	     that support the appropriate system calls.

	     If a pointer to a struct stat is provided,  information  from  that
	     structure	will  be used instead of reading from the disk where ap-
	     propriate.  This can  provide  performance  benefits  in  scenarios
	     where  struct  stat information has already been read from the disk
	     as a side effect of some other operation.	(For example,  directory
	     traversal libraries often provide this information.)

	     Where necessary, user and group ids are converted to user and group
	     names  using the currently-registered lookup functions above.  This
	     affects the file ownership fields and  ACL  values  in  the  struct
	     archive_entry object.

     archive_read_disk_descend()
	     If  the current entry can be descended, this function will mark the
	     directory as the next entry for archive_read_header(3) to visit.

     archive_read_disk_can_descend()
	     Returns 1 if the current entry is an unvisited directory and 0 oth-
	     erwise.

     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem()
	     Returns the index of the most recent filesystem entry that has been
	     visited through archive_read_disk

     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem_is_synthetic()
	     Returns 1 if the current filesystem is a  virtual	filesystem.  Re-
	     turns  0 if the current filesystem is not a virtual filesystem. Re-
	     turns -1 if it is unknown.

     archive_read_disk_current_filesystem_is_remote()
	     Returns 1 if the current filesystem is a remote filesystem. Returns
	     0 if the current filesystem is not a remote filesystem. Returns  -1
	     if it is unknown.

     archive_read_disk_set_matching()
	     Allows  the caller to set struct archive *_ma to compare each entry
	     during archive_read_header(3) calls. If matched based on  calls  to
	     archive_match_path_excluded,     archive_match_time_excluded,    or
	     archive_match_owner_excluded, then the callback function  specified
	     by  the  _excluded_func  parameter will execute. This function will
	     receive data provided to the fourth parameter, void *_client_data.

     archive_read_disk_set_metadata_filter_callback()
	     Allows the caller to  set	a  callback  function  during  calls  to
	     archive_read_header(3)  to  filter out metadata for each entry. The
	     callback function receives the struct archive object, void*  custom
	     filter  data,  and the struct archive_entry.  If the callback func-
	     tion returns an error, ARCHIVE_RETRY will be returned and the entry
	     will not be further processed.
     More information about the struct archive object and the overall design  of
     the library can be found in the libarchive(3) overview.

EXAMPLES
     The  following illustrates basic usage of the library by showing how to use
     it to copy an item on disk into an archive.

	   void
	   file_to_archive(struct archive *a, const char *name)
	   {
	     char buff[8192];
	     size_t bytes_read;
	     struct archive *ard;
	     struct archive_entry *entry;
	     int fd;

	     ard = archive_read_disk_new();
	     archive_read_disk_set_standard_lookup(ard);
	     entry = archive_entry_new();
	     fd = open(name, O_RDONLY);
	     if (fd < 0)
		return;
	     archive_entry_copy_pathname(entry, name);
	     archive_read_disk_entry_from_file(ard, entry, fd, NULL);
	     archive_write_header(a, entry);
	     while ((bytes_read = read(fd, buff, sizeof(buff))) > 0)
	       archive_write_data(a, buff, bytes_read);
	     archive_write_finish_entry(a);
	     archive_read_free(ard);
	     archive_entry_free(entry);
	   }

RETURN VALUES
     Most functions return ARCHIVE_OK (zero) on success, or one of several nega-
     tive error codes for errors.  Specific error codes  include:  ARCHIVE_RETRY
     for operations that might succeed if retried, ARCHIVE_WARN for unusual con-
     ditions that do not prevent further operations, and ARCHIVE_FATAL for seri-
     ous errors that make remaining operations impossible.

     archive_read_disk_new()  returns  a  pointer  to  a  newly-allocated struct
     archive object or NULL if the allocation failed for any reason.

     archive_read_disk_gname() and archive_read_disk_uname() return const char *
     pointers to the textual name or NULL if the lookup failed for  any  reason.
     The  returned  pointer points to internal storage that may be reused on the
     next call to either of these functions; callers should copy the  string  if
     they need to continue accessing it.

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

SEE ALSO
     tar(1),	  archive_read(3),	archive_util(3),       archive_write(3),
     archive_write_disk(3), libarchive(3)

HISTORY
     The    libarchive	 library   first   appeared   in   FreeBSD   5.3.    The
     archive_read_disk interface was added to libarchive 2.6 and first	appeared
     in FreeBSD 8.0.

AUTHORS
     The libarchive library was written by Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS
     The  "standard"  user  name and group name lookup functions are not the de-
     faults because getgrgid(3) and getpwuid(3) are sometimes too large for par-
     ticular applications.  The current design allows the application author  to
     use a more compact implementation when appropriate.

     The   full  list  of  metadata  read  from  disk  by  archive_read_disk_en-
     try_from_file() is necessarily system-dependent.

     The archive_read_disk_entry_from_file() function reads as much  information
     as  it can from disk.  Some method should be provided to limit this so that
     clients who do not need ACLs, for instance, can avoid the extra work needed
     to look up such information.

     This API should provide a set of methods  for  walking  a	directory  tree.
     That would make it a direct parallel of the archive_read(3) API.  When such
     methods are implemented, the "hybrid" symbolic link mode will make sense.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	  April 3, 2017 	    ARCHIVE_READ_DISK(3)

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