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Issue 7109015: Update XZ Utils to 5.0.3 (in deps) (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/xz/
Patch Set: Created 9 years, 7 months ago
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Index: src/xzdec/xzdec.1
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--- src/xzdec/xzdec.1 (revision 50504)
+++ src/xzdec/xzdec.1 (working copy)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
.\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
.\"
-.TH XZDEC 1 "2010-03-07" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
+.TH XZDEC 1 "2010-09-27" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
.SH NAME
xzdec, lzmadec \- Small .xz and .lzma decompressors
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
.B xzdec
is intended to work as a drop-in replacement for
.BR xz (1)
-in the most common situations where a script has been written to use
+in the most common situations where a script
+has been written to use
.B "xz \-\-decompress \-\-stdout"
(and possibly a few other commonly used options) to decompress
.B .xz
@@ -43,9 +44,12 @@
.PP
To reduce the size of the executable,
.B xzdec
-doesn't support multithreading or localization, and doesn't read options from
+doesn't support multithreading or localization,
+and doesn't read options from
+.B XZ_DEFAULTS
+and
.B XZ_OPT
-environment variable.
+environment variables.
.B xzdec
doesn't support displaying intermediate progress information: sending
.B SIGINFO
@@ -77,45 +81,6 @@
.B xzdec
always writes the decompressed data to standard output.
.TP
-\fB\-M\fR \fIlimit\fR, \fB\-\-memory=\fIlimit
-Set the memory usage
-.IR limit .
-If this option is specified multiple times, the last one takes effect. The
-.I limit
-can be specified in multiple ways:
-.RS
-.IP \(bu 3
-The
-.I limit
-can be an absolute value in bytes. Using an integer suffix like
-.B MiB
-can be useful. Example:
-.B "\-\-memory=80MiB"
-.IP \(bu 3
-The
-.I limit
-can be specified as a percentage of physical RAM. Example:
-.B "\-\-memory=70%"
-.IP \(bu 3
-The
-.I limit
-can be reset back to its default value by setting it to
-.BR 0 .
-.IP \(bu 3
-The memory usage limiting can be effectively disabled by setting
-.I limit
-to
-.BR max .
-This isn't recommended. It's usually better to use, for example,
-.BR \-\-memory=90% .
-.RE
-.IP
-The current
-.I limit
-can be seen near the bottom of the output of the
-.B \-\-help
-option.
-.TP
.BR \-q ", " \-\-quiet
Specifying this once does nothing since
.B xzdec
@@ -127,8 +92,7 @@
.BR xz (1)
compatibility.
.B xzdec
-never uses the exit status
-.BR "2" .
+never uses the exit status 2.
.TP
.BR \-h ", " \-\-help
Display a help message and exit successfully.
@@ -148,18 +112,32 @@
.B xzdec
doesn't have any warning messages like
.BR xz (1)
-has, thus the exit status
-.B 2
-is not used by
+has, thus the exit status 2 is not used by
.BR xzdec .
.SH NOTES
+Use
+.BR xz (1)
+instead of
.B xzdec
+or
+.B lzmadec
+for normal everyday use.
+.B xzdec
+or
+.B lzmadec
+are meant only for situations where it is important to have
+a smaller decompressor than the full-featured
+.BR xz (1).
+.PP
+.B xzdec
and
.B lzmadec
-are not really that small. The size can be reduced further by dropping
-features from liblzma at compile time, but that shouldn't usually be done
-for executables distributed in typical non-embedded operating system
-distributions. If you need a truly small
+are not really that small.
+The size can be reduced further by dropping
+features from liblzma at compile time,
+but that shouldn't usually be done for executables distributed
+in typical non-embedded operating system distributions.
+If you need a truly small
.B .xz
decompressor, consider using XZ Embedded.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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