ARCHIVE_WRITE_NEW(3)

NAME
archive_write_new - functions for creating archives

LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h>
struct archive *
archive_write_new(void);

DESCRIPTION
Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for writing a tar archive. NULL is returned on error.

A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3).

SEE ALSO
tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)