On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can't this problem be circumvented by spawning the lzma command line > utility, and piping all data to it? I understand that this perhaps > negates the purpose of libarchive, but the overhead should be small. > That indeed totally defeats the purpose. We currently have a neat and transparent way to access all kind of different archives supported by libarchive, without any hacks.