archive_write_new(3) functions for creating archives

LIBRARY

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

In archive.h Ft struct archive * Fn 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).