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archive_read_free (3archive)

Name

archive_read_free - functions for reading streaming archives

Synopsis

#include <archive.h>
int
archive_read_close(struct archive *);
int
archive_read_finish(struct archive *);
int
archive_read_free(struct archive *);

Description

                                                   ARCHIVE_READ_FREE(3archive)



NAME
       archive_read_close, archive_read_finish, archive_read_free - functions
       for reading streaming archives

LIBRARY
       Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS
       #include <archive.h>
       int
       archive_read_close(struct archive *);
       int
       archive_read_finish(struct archive *);
       int
       archive_read_free(struct archive *);

DESCRIPTION
            archive_read_close()
                   Complete the archive and invoke the close callback.

            archive_read_finish()
                   This is a deprecated synonym for archive_read_free().  The
                   new name was introduced with libarchive 3.0.  Applications
                   that need to compile with either libarchive 2 or libarchive
                   3 should continue to use the archive_read_finish() name.
                   Both names will be supported until libarchive 4.0 is
                   released, which is not expected to occur earlier than 2013.

            archive_read_free()
                   Invokes archive_read_close() if it was not invoked manu-
                   ally, then release all resources.  Note: In libarchive 1.x,
                   this function was declared to return void , which made it
                   impossible to detect certain errors when
                   archive_read_close() was invoked implicitly from this func-
                   tion.  The declaration is corrected beginning with
                   libarchive 2.0.

RETURN VALUES
       These functions return ARCHIVE_OK on success, or ARCHIVE_FATAL.

ERRORS
       Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the
       archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+--------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
       +---------------+--------------------+
       |Availability   | library/libarchive |
       +---------------+--------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
       +---------------+--------------------+

SEE ALSO
       archive_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3),
       archive_read_new(3), archive_read_open(3), archive_read_set_options(3),
       archive_util(3), libarchive(3)



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/down-
       load/v3.6.1/libarchive-3.6.1.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.libarchive.org/.



                               February 2, 2012
                                                   ARCHIVE_READ_FREE(3archive)