The order is now consistent with the order the command line arguments
are documented earlier in the man page. The new order is:
1. --list
2. --info-memory
3. --version
Instead of the previous order:
1. --version
2. --info-memory
3. --list
The --filters-help can be used to help create filter chains with the
--filters and --filtersX options. The message in --long-help is too
short to fully explain the syntax to construct complex filter chains.
In --robot mode, xz will only print the output from liblzma function
lzma_str_list_filters.
The --block-list option description needed updating since the new
--filtersX option changes how it can be used. The new entry for
--filters1=FILTERS ... --filter9=FILTERS was created right after
the --filters option.
If a filter chain is set but not used in --block-list, it introduced
unexpected behavior such as requiring an unneeded amount of memory to
compress, reducing the number of threads in multi-threaded encoding, and
printing an incorrect amount of memory needed to decompress.
This also renames filters_init_mask => filters_used_mask. A filter is
assumed to be used if it is specified in --filtersX until
coder_set_compression_settings() determines which filters are referenced
in --block-list.
When opt_block_size is not used, the Block size for mt encoder is
derived from the minimum of the largest Block specified by
--block-list and the recommended Block size on all filter chains
calculated by lzma_mt_block_size(). This avoids using unnecessary
memory and ensures that all Blocks are large enough for the most memory
needy filter chain.
Previously, only the default filter chain could have its memory usage
adjusted. The filter chains specified with --filtersX were not checked
for memory usage. Now, all used filter chains will be adjusted if
necessary.
The block splitting logic and split_block() function are not needed if
encoders are disabled. This will help slightly reduce the binary size
when built without encoders and allow split_block() to use functions
that require encoders being enabled.
This will only free filter chains created with --filters1-9 since the
default filter chain may be set from a static function variable. The
complexity to free the default filter chain is not worth the burden on
code maintenance.
The new command line options are meant to be combined with --block-list.
They work as an optional extension to --block-list to specify a custom
filter chain for each block listed. The new options allow the creation
of up to 9 reusable filter chains. For instance:
xz --block-list=1:10MiB,3:5MiB,,2:5MiB,1:0 --filters1=delta--lzma2 \
--filters2=x86--lzma2 --filters3=arm64--lzma2
Will create the following blocks:
1. A block of size 10 MiB with filter chain delta, lzma2.
2. A block of size 5 MiB with filter chain arm64, lzma2.
3. A block of size 5 MiB with filter chain arm64, lzma2.
4. A block of size 5 MiB with filter chain x86, lzma2.
5. A block containing the rest of the file contents with filter chain
delta, lzma2.
This is a little cleaner than the previous implementation of
forget_filter_chain(). It is also more consistent since
lzma_str_to_filters() will always terminate the filter chain so there
is no need to terminate it later in coder_set_compression_settings().
The --filters option uses the new lzma_str_to_filters() function
to convert a string into a full filter chain. Using this option
will reset all previous filters set by --preset, --[filter], or
--filters.
Also remove unneeded "sandbox_allowed = false;" as this code
will never be run more than once (making it work with multiple
input files isn't trivial).
The warning causes the exit status to be 2, so this will cause problems
for many scripted use cases for xz. The sandbox usage is already very
limited already, so silently disabling this allows it to be more usable.
If a system has the Capsicum header files but does not actually
implement the system calls, then this would render xz unusable. Instead,
we can check if errno == ENOSYS and not issue a fatal error.
This way, if xz is stopped the elapsed time and estimated time
remaining won't get confused by the amount of time spent in
the stopped state.
This raises SIGSTOP. It's not clear to me if this is the correct way.
POSIX and glibc docs say that SIGTSTP shouldn't stop the process if
it is orphaned but this commit doesn't attempt to handle that.
Search for SIGTSTP in section 2.4.3:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html
Calling coder_set_compression_settings() in list mode with verbose mode
on caused the filter chain and memory requirements to print. This was
unnecessary since the command results in an error and not consistent
with other formats like lzma and alone.
clang and gcc differ in how they handle -Wformat-nonliteral. gcc will
allow a non-literal format string as long as the function takes its
format arguments as a va_list.
SUSv2 and POSIX.1‐2017 declare only a few functions in <strings.h>.
Of these, strcasecmp() is used on some platforms in suffix.c.
Nothing else in the project needs <strings.h> (at least if
building on a modern system).
sysdefs.h currently includes <strings.h> if HAVE_STRINGS_H is
defined and suffix.c relied on this.
Note that dos/config.h doesn't #define HAVE_STRINGS_H even though
DJGPP does have strings.h. It isn't needed with DJGPP as strcasecmp()
is also in <string.h> in DJGPP.
Previously, if threading was enabled HAVE_DECL_CLOCK_MONOTONIC would always
be set to 0 or 1. However, this macro was needed in xz so if xz was not
built with threading and HAVE_DECL_CLOCK_MONOTONIC was not defined but
HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME was, it caused a warning during build. Now,
HAVE_DECL_CLOCK_MONOTONIC has been renamed to HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
will only be set if it is 1.
The code that parses --memlimit options and --block-list modified
the argv[] when parsing the option string from optarg. This was
visible in "ps auxf" and such and could be confusing. I didn't
understand it back in the day when I wrote that code. Now a copy
is allocated when modifiable strings are needed.
Jia Tan