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28 .Dt ARCHIVE_WRITE_FREE 3
31 .Nm archive_write_close ,
32 .Nm archive_write_finish ,
33 .Nm archive_write_free
34 .Nd functions for creating archives
36 Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
40 .Fn archive_write_close "struct archive *"
42 .Fn archive_write_finish "struct archive *"
44 .Fn archive_write_free "struct archive *"
46 .Bl -tag -width indent
47 .It Fn archive_write_close
48 Complete the archive and invoke the close callback.
49 .It Fn archive_write_finish
50 This is a deprecated synonym for
51 .Fn archive_write_free .
52 .It Fn archive_write_free
54 .Fn archive_write_close
55 if necessary, then releases all resources.
56 If you need detailed information about
57 .Fn archive_write_close
58 failures, you should be careful to call it separately, as
59 you cannot obtain error information after
60 .Fn archive_write_free
65 These functions return
71 Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the
74 .Fn archive_error_string
80 .Xr archive_write_set_options 3 ,