LIBRARY

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Create archive object

To read an archive, you must first obtain an initialized struct archive object from Fn archive_read_new .

Enable filters and formats

You can then modify this object for the desired operations with the various Fn archive_read_set_XXX and Fn archive_read_support_XXX functions. In particular, you will need to invoke appropriate Fn archive_read_support_XXX functions to enable the corresponding compression and format support. Note that these latter functions perform two distinct operations: they cause the corresponding support code to be linked into your program, and they enable the corresponding auto-detect code. Unless you have specific constraints, you will generally want to invoke Fn archive_read_support_filter_all and Fn archive_read_support_format_all to enable auto-detect for all formats and compression types currently supported by the library.

Set options

Open archive

Once you have prepared the struct archive object, you call Fn archive_read_open to actually open the archive and prepare it for reading. There are several variants of this function; the most basic expects you to provide pointers to several functions that can provide blocks of bytes from the archive. There are convenience forms that allow you to specify a filename, file descriptor, Ft FILE * object, or a block of memory from which to read the archive data. Note that the core library makes no assumptions about the size of the blocks read; callback functions are free to read whatever block size is most appropriate for the medium.

Consume archive

Each archive entry consists of a header followed by a certain amount of data. You can obtain the next header with Fn archive_read_next_header , which returns a pointer to an struct archive_entry structure with information about the current archive element. If the entry is a regular file, then the header will be followed by the file data. You can use Fn archive_read_data (which works much like the read(2) system call) to read this data from the archive, or Fn archive_read_data_block which provides a slightly more efficient interface. You may prefer to use the higher-level Fn archive_read_data_skip , which reads and discards the data for this entry, Fn archive_read_data_into_fd , which copies the data to the provided file descriptor, or Fn archive_read_extract , which recreates the specified entry on disk and copies data from the archive. In particular, note that Fn archive_read_extract uses the struct archive_entry structure that you provide it, which may differ from the entry just read from the archive. In particular, many applications will want to override the pathname, file permissions, or ownership.

Release resources

Once you have finished reading data from the archive, you should call Fn archive_read_close to close the archive, then call Fn archive_read_free to release all resources, including all memory allocated by the library.

EXAMPLE

void
list_archive(const char *name)
{
  struct mydata *mydata;
  struct archive *a;
  struct archive_entry *entry;
  mydata = malloc(sizeof(struct mydata));
  a = archive_read_new();
  mydata->name = name;
  archive_read_support_filter_all(a);
  archive_read_support_format_all(a);
  archive_read_open(a, mydata, myopen, myread, myclose);
  while (archive_read_next_header(a, &entry) == ARCHIVE_OK) {
    printf("%s\n",archive_entry_pathname(entry));
    archive_read_data_skip(a);
  }
  archive_read_free(a);
  free(mydata);
}
la_ssize_t
myread(struct archive *a, void *client_data, const void **buff)
{
  struct mydata *mydata = client_data;
  *buff = mydata->buff;
  return (read(mydata->fd, mydata->buff, 10240));
}
int
myopen(struct archive *a, void *client_data)
{
  struct mydata *mydata = client_data;
  mydata->fd = open(mydata->name, O_RDONLY);
  return (mydata->fd >= 0 ? ARCHIVE_OK : ARCHIVE_FATAL);
}
int
myclose(struct archive *a, void *client_data)
{
  struct mydata *mydata = client_data;
  if (mydata->fd > 0)
    close(mydata->fd);
  return (ARCHIVE_OK);
}

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