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27.Dd February 2, 2012
28.Dt ARCHIVE_WRITE_FINISH_ENTRY 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm archive_write_finish_entry
32.Nd functions for creating archives
33.Sh LIBRARY
34Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In archive.h
37.Ft int
38.Fn archive_write_finish_entry "struct archive *"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40Close out the entry just written.
41In particular, this writes out the final padding required by some formats.
42Ordinarily, clients never need to call this, as it
43is called automatically by
44.Fn archive_write_next_header
45and
46.Fn archive_write_close
47as needed.
48.\" .Sh EXAMPLE
49.Sh RETURN VALUES
50This function returns
51.Cm ARCHIVE_OK
52on success, or one of several non-zero
53error codes for errors.
54Specific error codes include:
55.Cm ARCHIVE_RETRY
56for operations that might succeed if retried,
57.Cm ARCHIVE_WARN
58for unusual conditions that do not prevent further operations, and
59.Cm ARCHIVE_FATAL
60for serious errors that make remaining operations impossible.
61.\"
62.Sh ERRORS
63Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the
64.Fn archive_errno
65and
66.Fn archive_error_string
67functions.
68.\"
69.Sh SEE ALSO
70.Xr tar 1 ,
71.Xr libarchive 3 ,
72.Xr archive_write_data 3 ,
73.Xr archive_write_set_options 3 ,
74.Xr cpio 5 ,
75.Xr mtree 5 ,
76.Xr tar 5
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