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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd March 18, 2012 +.Dt LIBARCHIVE 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm libarchive +.Nd functions for reading and writing streaming archives +.Sh OVERVIEW +The +.Nm +library provides a flexible interface for reading and writing +archives in various formats such as tar and cpio. +.Nm +also supports reading and writing archives compressed using +various compression filters such as gzip and bzip2. +The library is inherently stream-oriented; readers serially iterate through +the archive, writers serially add things to the archive. +In particular, note that there is currently no built-in support for +random access nor for in-place modification. +.Pp +When reading an archive, the library automatically detects the +format and the compression. +The library currently has read support for: +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +old-style tar archives, +.It +most variants of the POSIX +.Dq ustar +format, +.It +the POSIX +.Dq pax interchange +format, +.It +GNU-format tar archives, +.It +most common cpio archive formats, +.It +ISO9660 CD images (including RockRidge and Joliet extensions), +.It +Zip archives, +.It +ar archives (including GNU/SysV and BSD extensions), +.It +Microsoft CAB archives, +.It +LHA archives, +.It +mtree file tree descriptions, +.It +RAR archives, +.It +XAR archives. +.El +The library automatically detects archives compressed with +.Xr gzip 1 , +.Xr bzip2 1 , +.Xr xz 1 , +.Xr lzip 1 , +or +.Xr compress 1 +and decompresses them transparently. +It can similarly detect and decode archives processed with +.Xr uuencode 1 +or which have an +.Xr rpm 1 +header. +.Pp +When writing an archive, you can specify the compression +to be used and the format to use. +The library can write +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +POSIX-standard +.Dq ustar +archives, +.It +POSIX +.Dq pax interchange format +archives, +.It +POSIX octet-oriented cpio archives, +.It +Zip archive, +.It +two different variants of shar archives, +.It +ISO9660 CD images, +.It +7-Zip archives, +.It +ar archives, +.It +mtree file tree descriptions, +.It +XAR archives. +.El +Pax interchange format is an extension of the tar archive format that +eliminates essentially all of the limitations of historic tar formats +in a standard fashion that is supported +by POSIX-compliant +.Xr pax 1 +implementations on many systems as well as several newer implementations of +.Xr tar 1 . +Note that the default write format will suppress the pax extended +attributes for most entries; explicitly requesting pax format will +enable those attributes for all entries. +.Pp +The read and write APIs are accessed through the +.Fn archive_read_XXX +functions and the +.Fn archive_write_XXX +functions, respectively, and either can be used independently +of the other. +.Pp +The rest of this manual page provides an overview of the library +operation. +More detailed information can be found in the individual manual +pages for each API or utility function. +.\" +.Sh READING AN ARCHIVE +See +.Xr archive_read 3 . +.\" +.Sh WRITING AN ARCHIVE +See +.Xr archive_write 3 . +.\" +.Sh WRITING ENTRIES TO DISK +The +.Xr archive_write_disk 3 +API allows you to write +.Xr archive_entry 3 +objects to disk using the same API used by +.Xr archive_write 3 . +The +.Xr archive_write_disk 3 +API is used internally by +.Fn archive_read_extract ; +using it directly can provide greater control over how entries +get written to disk. +This API also makes it possible to share code between +archive-to-archive copy and archive-to-disk extraction +operations. +.Sh READING ENTRIES FROM DISK +The +.Xr archive_read_disk 3 +supports for populating +.Xr archive_entry 3 +objects from information in the filesystem. +This includes the information accessible from the +.Xr stat 2 +system call as well as ACLs, extended attributes, +and other metadata. +The +.Xr archive_read_disk 3 +API also supports iterating over directory trees, +which allows directories of files to be read using +an API compatible with +the +.Xr archive_read 3 +API. +.Sh DESCRIPTION +Detailed descriptions of each function are provided by the +corresponding manual pages. +.Pp +All of the functions utilize an opaque +.Tn struct archive +datatype that provides access to the archive contents. +.Pp +The +.Tn struct archive_entry +structure contains a complete description of a single archive +entry. +It uses an opaque interface that is fully documented in +.Xr archive_entry 3 . +.Pp +Users familiar with historic formats should be aware that the newer +variants have eliminated most restrictions on the length of textual fields. +Clients should not assume that filenames, link names, user names, or +group names are limited in length. +In particular, pax interchange format can easily accommodate pathnames +in arbitrary character sets that exceed +.Va PATH_MAX . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Most functions return +.Cm ARCHIVE_OK +(zero) on success, non-zero on error. +The return value indicates the general severity of the error, ranging +from +.Cm ARCHIVE_WARN , +which indicates a minor problem that should probably be reported +to the user, to +.Cm ARCHIVE_FATAL , +which indicates a serious problem that will prevent any further +operations on this archive. +On error, the +.Fn archive_errno +function can be used to retrieve a numeric error code (see +.Xr errno 2 ) . +The +.Fn archive_error_string +returns a textual error message suitable for display. +.Pp +.Fn archive_read_new +and +.Fn archive_write_new +return pointers to an allocated and initialized +.Tn struct archive +object. +.Pp +.Fn archive_read_data +and +.Fn archive_write_data +return a count of the number of bytes actually read or written. +A value of zero indicates the end of the data for this entry. +A negative value indicates an error, in which case the +.Fn archive_errno +and +.Fn archive_error_string +functions can be used to obtain more information. +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +There are character set conversions within the +.Xr archive_entry 3 +functions that are impacted by the currently-selected locale. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr tar 1 , +.Xr archive_entry 3 , +.Xr archive_read 3 , +.Xr archive_util 3 , +.Xr archive_write 3 , +.Xr tar 5 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm libarchive +library first appeared in +.Fx 5.3 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm libarchive +library was originally written by +.An Tim Kientzle Aq kientzle@acm.org . +.Sh BUGS +Some archive formats support information that is not supported by +.Tn struct archive_entry . +Such information cannot be fully archived or restored using this library. +This includes, for example, comments, character sets, +or the arbitrary key/value pairs that can appear in +pax interchange format archives. +.Pp +Conversely, of course, not all of the information that can be +stored in an +.Tn struct archive_entry +is supported by all formats. +For example, cpio formats do not support nanosecond timestamps; +old tar formats do not support large device numbers. +.Pp +The ISO9660 reader cannot yet read all ISO9660 images; +it should learn how to seek. +.Pp +The AR writer requires the client program to use +two passes, unlike all other libarchive writers. |