elf_getarhdr(3E)														  elf_getarhdr(3E)

NAME

       elf_getarhdr - retrieve archive member header

SYNOPSIS

       [flag... ] file...  [library] ...

DESCRIPTION

       returns a pointer to an archive member header, if one is available for the ELF descriptor elf.  Otherwise, no archive member header exists,
       an error occurred, or elf was null; then returns a null value.  The header includes the following members.

		       char	       *ar_name;
		       time_t	       ar_date;
		       long	       ar_uid;
		       long	       ar_gid;
		       unsigned long   ar_mode;
		       off_t	       ar_size;
		       char	       *ar_rawname;

       An archive member name, available through is a null-terminated string, with the format control characters  removed.   The  member  holds  a
       null-terminated	string	that represents the original name bytes in the file, including the terminating slash and trailing blanks as speci-
       fied in the archive format.

       In addition to ``regular'' archive members, the archive format defines some special members.  All special member names begin with  a  slash
       distinguishing them from regular members (whose names may not contain a slash).	These special members have the names defined below.

       This is the archive symbol table.  If present, it will
	      be  the  first  archive member.  A program may access the archive symbol table through The information in the symbol table is useful
	      for random archive processing (see elf_rand(3E)).

       This member, if present, holds a string table for long
	      archive member names.  An archive member's header contains a 16-byte area for the name, which may be exceeded in some file  systems.
	      The library automatically retrieves long member names from the string table, setting to the appropriate value.

       Under some error conditions, a member's name might not be available.  Although this causes the library to set to a null pointer, the member
       will be set as usual.

SEE ALSO

       ar(4), elf(3E), elf_begin(3E), elf_getarsym(3E), elf_rand(3E).

																  elf_getarhdr(3E)