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| .Dd February 2, 2012 |
| .Dt ARCHIVE_WRITE_DATA 3 |
| .Os |
| .Sh NAME |
| .Nm archive_write_data |
| .Nd functions for creating archives |
| .Sh LIBRARY |
| Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive) |
| .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| .In archive.h |
| .Ft la_ssize_t |
| .Fn archive_write_data "struct archive *" "const void *" "size_t" |
| .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| Write data corresponding to the header just written. |
| .\" .Sh EXAMPLE |
| .\" |
| .Sh RETURN VALUES |
| This function returns the number of bytes actually written, or |
| a negative error code on error. |
| .\" |
| .Sh ERRORS |
| Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the |
| .Fn archive_errno |
| and |
| .Fn archive_error_string |
| functions. |
| .\" |
| .Sh 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 |
| .Vt archive_write_disk |
| handle. |
| Clients should treat any value less than zero as an error |
| and consider any non-negative value as success. |
| .\" |
| .Sh SEE ALSO |
| .Xr tar 1 , |
| .Xr libarchive 3 , |
| .Xr archive_write_finish_entry 3 , |
| .Xr archive_write_set_options 3 , |
| .Xr cpio 5 , |
| .Xr mtree 5 , |
| .Xr tar 5 |
