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26.Dd February 2, 2012
27.Dt ARCHIVE_ENTRY 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm archive_entry_clear ,
31.Nm archive_entry_clone ,
32.Nm archive_entry_free ,
33.Nm archive_entry_new
34.Nd functions for managing archive entry descriptions
35.Sh LIBRARY
36Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In archive_entry.h
39.Ft "struct archive_entry *"
40.Fn archive_entry_clear "struct archive_entry *"
41.Ft struct archive_entry *
42.Fn archive_entry_clone "struct archive_entry *"
43.Ft void
44.Fn archive_entry_free "struct archive_entry *"
45.Ft struct archive_entry *
46.Fn archive_entry_new "void"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48These functions create and manipulate data objects that
49represent entries within an archive.
50You can think of a
51.Tn struct archive_entry
52as a heavy-duty version of
53.Tn struct stat :
54it includes everything from
55.Tn struct stat
56plus associated pathname, textual group and user names, etc.
57These objects are used by
58.Xr libarchive 3
59to represent the metadata associated with a particular
60entry in an archive.
61.Ss Create and Destroy
62There are functions to allocate, destroy, clear, and copy
63.Va archive_entry
64objects:
65.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
66.It Fn archive_entry_clear
67Erases the object, resetting all internal fields to the
68same state as a newly-created object.
69This is provided to allow you to quickly recycle objects
70without thrashing the heap.
71.It Fn archive_entry_clone
72A deep copy operation; all text fields are duplicated.
73.It Fn archive_entry_free
74Releases the
75.Tn struct archive_entry
76object.
77.It Fn archive_entry_new
78Allocate and return a blank
79.Tn struct archive_entry
80object.
81.El
82.Ss Function groups
83Due to high number of functions, the accessor functions can be found in
84man pages grouped by the purpose.
85.Bl -tag -width ".Xr archive_entry_perms 3"
86.It Xr archive_entry_acl 3
87Access Control List manipulation
88.It Xr archive_entry_paths 3
89Path name manipulation
90.It Xr archive_entry_perms 3
91User, group and mode manipulation
92.It Xr archive_entry_stat 3
93Functions not in the other groups and copying to/from
94.Vt struct stat .
95.It Xr archive_entry_time 3
96Time field manipulation
97.El
98.Pp
99Most of the functions set or read entries in an object.
100Such functions have one of the following forms:
101.Bl -tag -compact -width indent
102.It Fn archive_entry_set_XXXX
103Stores the provided data in the object.
104In particular, for strings, the pointer is stored,
105not the referenced string.
106.It Fn archive_entry_copy_XXXX
107As above, except that the referenced data is copied
108into the object.
109.It Fn archive_entry_XXXX
110Returns the specified data.
111In the case of strings, a const-qualified pointer to
112the string is returned.
113.El
114String data can be set or accessed as wide character strings
115or normal
116.Va char
117strings.
118The functions that use wide character strings are suffixed with
119.Cm _w .
120Note that these are different representations of the same data:
121For example, if you store a narrow string and read the corresponding
122wide string, the object will transparently convert formats
123using the current locale.
124Similarly, if you store a wide string and then store a
125narrow string for the same data, the previously-set wide string will
126be discarded in favor of the new data.
127.\" .Sh EXAMPLE
128.\" .Sh RETURN VALUES
129.\" .Sh ERRORS
130.Sh SEE ALSO
131.Xr archive_entry_acl 3 ,
132.Xr archive_entry_paths 3 ,
133.Xr archive_entry_perms 3 ,
134.Xr archive_entry_time 3 ,
135.Xr libarchive 3
136.Sh HISTORY
137The
138.Nm libarchive
139library first appeared in
140.Fx 5.3 .
141.Sh AUTHORS
142.An -nosplit
143The
144.Nm libarchive
145library was written by
146.An Tim Kientzle Aq kientzle@acm.org .
147.\" .Sh BUGS
148