Manpages - archive_read_free.3

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

Complete the archive and invoke the close callback.

This is a deprecated synonym for

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

name. Both names will be supported until libarchive 4.0 is released, which is not expected to occur earlier than 2013.

Invokes

if it was not invoked manually, then release all resources. Note: In libarchive 1.x, this function was declared to return

which made it impossible to detect certain errors when

was invoked implicitly from this function. The declaration is corrected beginning with libarchive 2.0.

These functions return

on success, or

Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the

and

functions.