diff --git a/src/xz/coder.c b/src/xz/coder.c
index 316f5609..b470e586 100644
--- a/src/xz/coder.c
+++ b/src/xz/coder.c
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ coder_normal(file_pair *pair)
 
 			if (ret == LZMA_STREAM_END) {
 				if (opt_single_stream) {
+					io_fix_src_pos(pair, strm.avail_in);
 					success = true;
 					break;
 				}
diff --git a/src/xz/file_io.c b/src/xz/file_io.c
index 370b61b7..f9807a69 100644
--- a/src/xz/file_io.c
+++ b/src/xz/file_io.c
@@ -840,6 +840,21 @@ io_close(file_pair *pair, bool success)
 }
 
 
+extern void
+io_fix_src_pos(file_pair *pair, size_t rewind_size)
+{
+	assert(rewind_size <= IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
+
+	if (rewind_size > 0) {
+		// This doesn't need to work on unseekable file descriptors,
+		// so just ignore possible errors.
+		(void)lseek(pair->src_fd, -(off_t)(rewind_size), SEEK_CUR);
+	}
+
+	return;
+}
+
+
 extern size_t
 io_read(file_pair *pair, io_buf *buf_union, size_t size)
 {
diff --git a/src/xz/file_io.h b/src/xz/file_io.h
index 967da868..ef639324 100644
--- a/src/xz/file_io.h
+++ b/src/xz/file_io.h
@@ -102,6 +102,19 @@ extern void io_close(file_pair *pair, bool success);
 extern size_t io_read(file_pair *pair, io_buf *buf, size_t size);
 
 
+/// \brief      Fix the position in src_fd
+///
+/// This is used when --single-thream has been specified and decompression
+/// is successful. If the input file descriptor supports seeking, this
+/// function fixes the input position to point to the next byte after the
+/// decompressed stream.
+///
+/// \param      pair        File pair having the source file open for reading
+/// \param      rewind_size How many bytes of extra have been read i.e.
+///                         how much to seek backwards.
+extern void io_fix_src_pos(file_pair *pair, size_t rewind_size);
+
+
 /// \brief      Read from source file from given offset to a buffer
 ///
 /// This is remotely similar to standard pread(). This uses lseek() though,