NAME

     archive_read_new — functions for reading streaming archives

LIBRARY

     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <archive.h>

     struct archive *
     archive_read_new(void);

DESCRIPTION

     Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an archive.
     NULL is returned on error.

     A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page
     for libarchive(3).

SEE ALSO

     tar(1), archive_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3),
     archive_read_set_options(3), archive_util(3), libarchive(3), tar(5)