alpm_mtree::file::common

Function run_bsdtar

Source 
fn run_bsdtar(
    path: impl AsRef<Path>,
    options: BsdtarOptions,
    stdin: &str,
) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Error>
Expand description

Runs bsdtar in path with dedicated options and return its stdout.

Creates [ALPM-MTREE] data based on the string slice stdin which contains all sorted paths below path and is passed to bsdtar on stdin.

§Errors

Returns an error if

  • the bsdtar command can not be found,
  • the bsdtar command can not be spawned in the background,
  • the bsdtar command’s stdin can not be attached to,
  • the bsdtar command’s stdin can not be written to,
  • calling the bsdtar command is not possible,
  • or bsdtar returned a non-zero status code.