Manpages - archive_write_finish_entry.3

Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

Close out the entry just written. In particular, this writes out the final padding required by some formats. Ordinarily, clients never need to call this, as it is called automatically by

and

as needed. For

handles, this flushes pending file attribute changes like modification time.

This function returns

on success, or one of several non-zero error codes for errors. Specific error codes include:

for operations that might succeed if retried,

for unusual conditions that do not prevent further operations, and

for serious errors that make remaining operations impossible.

Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the

and

functions.