On Monday 19 December 2011 21:39:21 Mike Gran wrote: > I was wondering if there was a GNU solution for a library and > C API to read files from an archive file of some common format: > tar, cpio, pax, or whatever. It doesn't matter which one. > > I'm trying to create and use an archive that my program will > use as a read-only filesystem. > > Searching the internet gives me some references to libraries named > libcpio and libpax, but, no obvious links to if and how > they could be used. > > The only documented GNU soltuion that I've found so far would be > to store my files as a CD iso9660 format file and then use > libiso9660 from GNU libcdio, but, it seems rather heavyweight > for my purposes.
this probably fails the "GNU" test, but otherwise this project would work:
http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/
-mike
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