NAME

     archive_write_new — functions for creating archives

LIBRARY

     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <archive.h>

     struct archive *
     archive_write_new(void);

DESCRIPTION

     Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for writing a tar 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_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), libarchive(3), cpio(5), mtree(5),
     tar(5)