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author | Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> | 2011-03-28 05:14:17 -0400 |
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committer | Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> | 2011-03-28 05:14:17 -0400 |
commit | 134372c1c00682f9f98cd23a54b427370dbedebb (patch) | |
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diff --git a/libarchive/archive_read_format.3 b/libarchive/archive_read_format.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..157d582c --- /dev/null +++ b/libarchive/archive_read_format.3 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2003-2011 Tim Kientzle +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD: head/lib/libarchive/archive_read.3 191595 2009-04-27 20:13:13Z kientzle $ +.\" +.Dd March 19, 2011 +.Dt archive_read_format 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm archive_read_support_format_all , +.Nm archive_read_support_format_ar , +.Nm archive_read_support_format_cpio , +.Nm archive_read_support_format_empty , +.Nm archive_read_support_format_iso9660 , +.Nm archive_read_support_format_mtree, +.Nm archive_read_support_format_raw, +.Nm archive_read_support_format_tar , +.Nm archive_read_support_format_zip +.Nd functions for reading streaming archives +.\" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In archive.h +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_all "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_ar "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_cpio "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_empty "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_iso9660 "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_mtree "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_raw "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_tar "struct archive *" +.Ft int +.Fn archive_read_support_format_zip "struct archive *" +.\" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Bl -tag -compact -width indent +.It Xo +.Fn archive_read_support_format_all , +.Fn archive_read_support_format_ar , +.Fn archive_read_support_format_cpio , +.Fn archive_read_support_format_empty , +.Fn archive_read_support_format_iso9660 , +.Fn archive_read_support_format_mtree , +.Fn archive_read_support_format_tar , +.Fn archive_read_support_format_zip +.Xc +Enables support---including auto-detection code---for the +specified archive format. +For example, +.Fn archive_read_support_format_tar +enables support for a variety of standard tar formats, old-style tar, +ustar, pax interchange format, and many common variants. +For convenience, +.Fn archive_read_support_format_all +enables support for all available formats. +Only empty archives are supported by default. +.It Fn archive_read_support_format_raw +The +.Dq raw +format handler allows libarchive to be used to read arbitrary data. +It treats any data stream as an archive with a single entry. +The pathname of this entry is +.Dq data ; +all other entry fields are unset. +This is not enabled by +.Fn archive_read_support_format_all +in order to avoid erroneous handling of damaged archives. +.El +.\" .Sh EXAMPLE +.Sh RETURN VALUES +These functions return +.Cm ARCHIVE_OK +on success, or +.Cm ARCHIVE_FATAL . +.Pp +Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the +.Fn archive_errno +and +.Fn archive_error_string +functions. +.\" .Sh ERRORS +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr tar 1 , +.Xr libarchive 3 , +.Xr archive_read_filter 3 , +.Xr archive_read_set_options 3 , +.Xr archive_util 3 , +.Xr tar 5 +.Sh BUGS +Many traditional archiver programs treat +empty files as valid empty archives. +For example, many implementations of +.Xr tar 1 +allow you to append entries to an empty file. +Of course, it is impossible to determine the format of an empty file +by inspecting the contents, so this library treats empty files as +having a special +.Dq empty +format. |