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  25. .Dd February 28, 2017
  26. .Dt ARCHIVE_WRITE_DATA 3
  27. .Os
  28. .Sh NAME
  29. .Nm archive_write_data ,
  30. .Nm archive_write_data_block
  31. .Nd functions for creating archives
  32. .Sh LIBRARY
  33. Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
  34. .Sh SYNOPSIS
  35. .In archive.h
  36. .Ft la_ssize_t
  37. .Fn archive_write_data "struct archive *" "const void *" "size_t"
  38. .Ft la_ssize_t
  39. .Fn archive_write_data_block "struct archive *" "const void *" "size_t size" "int64_t offset"
  40. .Sh DESCRIPTION
  41. .Bl -tag -width indent
  42. .It Fn archive_write_data
  43. Write data corresponding to the header just written.
  44. .It Fn archive_write_data_block
  45. Write data corresponding to the header just written.
  46. This is like
  47. .Fn archive_write_data
  48. except that it performs a seek on the file being
  49. written to the specified offset before writing the data.
  50. This is useful when restoring sparse files from archive
  51. formats that support sparse files.
  52. Returns number of bytes written or -1 on error.
  53. (Note: This is currently not supported for
  54. .Tn archive_write
  55. handles, only for
  56. .Tn archive_write_disk
  57. handles.
  58. .El
  59. .\" .Sh EXAMPLE
  60. .\"
  61. .Sh RETURN VALUES
  62. This function returns the number of bytes actually written, or
  63. a negative error code on error.
  64. .\"
  65. .Sh ERRORS
  66. Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the
  67. .Fn archive_errno
  68. and
  69. .Fn archive_error_string
  70. functions.
  71. .\"
  72. .Sh BUGS
  73. In libarchive 3.x, this function sometimes returns
  74. zero on success instead of returning the number of bytes written.
  75. Specifically, this occurs when writing to an
  76. .Vt archive_write_disk
  77. handle.
  78. Clients should treat any value less than zero as an error
  79. and consider any non-negative value as success.
  80. .\"
  81. .Sh SEE ALSO
  82. .Xr tar 1 ,
  83. .Xr archive_write_finish_entry 3 ,
  84. .Xr archive_write_set_options 3 ,
  85. .Xr libarchive 3 ,
  86. .Xr cpio 5 ,
  87. .Xr mtree 5 ,
  88. .Xr tar 5