Accessing the payload in memory ?

["richard offer" <roffer gmail com>]

Are there any any APIs for accessing the payload ? It seems the file
sizes, names are available for the individual files in the payload --
so are inodes (although I'm not sure what they are supposed to
represent).

But is there a way to get a pointer to the contents of each file  or
even the entire payload ?

Is the file format described anywhere ?


I'm trying to pick apart RPMs in memory for installing them into a
memory image that isn't a standard filesystem.


richard.

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