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.Dd February 2, 2012 .Dt ARCHIVE_WRITE_HEADER 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm archive_write_header .Nd functions for creating archives .Sh LIBRARY Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive) .Sh SYNOPSIS n archive.h .Ft int .Fn archive_write_header "struct archive *" "struct archive_entry *" .Sh DESCRIPTION Build and write a header using the data in the provided .Tn struct archive_entry structure. See .Xr archive_entry 3 for information on creating and populating .Tn struct archive_entry objects. .Sh EXAMPLE
.Sh RETURN VALUES This function returns .Cm ARCHIVE_OK on success, or one of the following on error: .Cm ARCHIVE_RETRY for operations that might succeed if retried, .Cm ARCHIVE_WARN for unusual conditions that do not prevent further operations, and .Cm ARCHIVE_FATAL for serious errors that make remaining operations impossible.
.Sh ERRORS Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the .Fn archive_errno and .Fn archive_error_string functions.
.Sh SEE ALSO .Xr tar 1 , .Xr archive_write_set_options 3 , .Xr libarchive 3 , .Xr cpio 5 , .Xr mtree 5 , .Xr tar 5