archive_util(3)

NAME
archive_clear_error, archive_compression, archive_compression_name, archive_copy_error, archive_errno, archive_error_string, 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_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 Tn 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_format
    (); Returns a numeric code indicating the format of the current archive 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-specific 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 ALSO
archive_read(3), archive_write(3), libarchive(3), printf(3)

HISTORY
The libarchive library first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS
-nosplit The libarchive library was written by Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org.>