ARCHIVE_WRITE_DATA(3)	 BSD Library Functions Manual	 ARCHIVE_WRITE_DATA(3)

NAME

     archive_write_data, archive_write_data_block — functions for creating ar‐

     chives

LIBRARY

     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <archive.h>

     la_ssize_t

     archive_write_data(struct archive *, const void *, size_t);

     la_ssize_t

     archive_write_data_block(struct archive *, const void *, size_t size,

	 int64_t offset);

DESCRIPTION

     archive_write_data()

	     Write data corresponding to the header just written.

     archive_write_data_block()

	     Write data corresponding to the header just written.  This is

	     like archive_write_data() except that it performs a seek on the

	     file being written to the specified offset before writing the

	     data.  This is useful when restoring sparse files from archive

	     formats that support sparse files.  Returns number of bytes writ‐

	     ten or -1 on error.  (Note: This is currently not supported for

	     archive_write handles, only for archive_write_disk handles.

RETURN VALUES

     This function returns the number of bytes actually written, or a negative

     error code on error.

ERRORS

     Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the

     archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.

BUGS

     In libarchive 3.x, this function sometimes returns zero on success

     instead of returning the number of bytes written.	Specifically, this

     occurs when writing to an archive_write_disk handle.  Clients should

     treat any value less than zero as an error and consider any non-negative

     value as success.

SEE ALSO

     tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write_finish_entry(3),

     archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)

BSD			       February 28, 2017			   BSD