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31 .Nm archive_compression ,
32 .Nm archive_compression_name ,
34 .Nm archive_error_string ,
36 .Nm archive_format_name ,
38 .Nd libarchive utility functions
42 .Fn archive_compression "struct archive *"
44 .Fn archive_compression_name "struct archive *"
46 .Fn archive_errno "struct archive *"
48 .Fn archive_error_string "struct archive *"
50 .Fn archive_format "struct archive *"
52 .Fn archive_format_name "struct archive *"
54 .Fn archive_set_error "struct archive *" "int error_code" "const char *fmt" "..."
56 These functions provide access to various information about the
61 .Bl -tag -compact -width indent
62 .It Fn archive_compression
63 Returns a numeric code indicating the current compression.
65 .Fn archive_read_open .
66 .It Fn archive_compression_name
67 Returns a text description of the current compression suitable for display.
69 Returns a numeric error code (see
71 indicating the reason for the most recent error return.
72 .It Fn archive_error_string
73 Returns a textual error message suitable for display.
74 The error message here is usually more specific than that
75 obtained from passing the result of
80 Returns a numeric code indicating the format of the current
82 This value is set by a successful call to
83 .Fn archive_read_next_header .
84 Note that it is common for this value to change from
86 For example, a tar archive might have several entries that
87 utilize GNU tar extensions and several entries that do not.
88 These entries will have different format codes.
89 .It Fn archive_format_name
90 A textual description of the format of the current entry.
91 .It Fn archive_set_error
92 Sets the numeric error code and error description that will be returned
96 .Fn archive_error_string .
97 This function should be used within I/O callbacks to set system-specific
98 error codes and error descriptions.
99 This function accepts a printf-like format string and arguments.
100 However, you should be careful to use only the following printf
117 Field-width specifiers and other printf features are
118 not uniformly supported and should not be used.
122 .Xr archive_write 3 ,
128 library first appeared in
134 library was written by
135 .An Tim Kientzle Aq kientzle@acm.org .