ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3)

🦋 ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3) 🦋

okay bestie, so this is archive_write_new from section 3 of the manual — and it's literally the vibe-check page for functions for creating archives. yes, the whole "make an archive" era starts right here. 💖

📚 LIBRARY

Streaming Archive Library — that's libarchive, and you link it with -larchive. periodt. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <archive.h>

struct archive *
archive_write_new(void);

like, that's it. one function. no args. she's simple, she's iconic. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what does she actually do? bestie, she allocates and initializes a struct archive object that's suitable for writing a tar archive. that's the whole job. main character behaviour tbh. 👑

if something goes wrong? you get NULL back. that's your error signal, no cap — check for it, fr fr. 😭

and if you wanna know everything about what a struct archive object even is (like, the full lore), go read the overview manual page for libarchive(3). she's got the deep dive. 🫶

ngl, do NOT skip the NULL check. that's not a vibe, that's a crash. 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• tar(1)
• archive_write(3)
• archive_write_set_options(3)
• libarchive(3)
• cpio(5)
• mtree(5)
• tar(5)

and that's the tea, bestie — this page comes from Debian, dated February 2, 2012, and it lives under ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3). mwah 💋