RE: Accessing the payload in memory ?

["Wichmann, Mats D" <mats d wichmann intel 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 ?

take a look here for some pointers:

http://www.linuxbase.org/spec//book/Packaging-generic/Packaging-generic/
pkgformat.html