Manpages - archive_read_header.3

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

Read the header for the next entry and return a pointer to a

This is a convenience wrapper around

that reuses an internal

object for each request.

Read the header for the next entry and populate the provided

These functions return

(the operation succeeded),

(the operation succeeded but a non-critical error was encountered),

(end-of-archive was encountered),

(the operation failed but can be retried), and

(there was a fatal error; the archive should be closed immediately).

Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the

and

functions.