archive_read_new(3)

archive_read_new3

Functions for reading streaming archives

Usage

#include <archive.h>

struct archive *

archive_read_new(void);

Library

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

Overview

Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an 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).

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 8–10
  2. 11–12
  3. 13–Arch

From libarchive 3.8.11-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.