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| 2 XZ Utils To-Do List |
| 3 =================== |
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| 5 Known bugs |
| 6 ---------- |
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| 8 The test suite is too incomplete. |
| 9 |
| 10 If the memory usage limit is less than about 13 MiB, xz is unable to |
| 11 automatically scale down the compression settings enough even though |
| 12 it would be possible by switching from BT2/BT3/BT4 match finder to |
| 13 HC3/HC4. |
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| 15 The code to detect number of CPU cores doesn't count hyperthreading |
| 16 as multiple cores. In context of xz, it probably should. |
| 17 Hyperthreading is good at least with p7zip. |
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| 19 XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils. |
| 20 This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and |
| 21 can be worked around by using "xz --extreme". However, the presets |
| 22 need some tweaking and maybe this issue can be minimized without |
| 23 making the typical case too much slower. |
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| 25 xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names |
| 26 given on the command line. |
| 27 |
| 28 tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible. |
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| 31 Missing features |
| 32 ---------------- |
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| 34 xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control |
| 35 lists etc. from source to target file. |
| 36 |
| 37 Multithreaded compression |
| 38 |
| 39 Multithreaded decompression |
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| 41 Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when |
| 42 decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2). |
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| 44 I/O library is not implemented. It will possibly be named libzzf. |
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| 46 lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form? |
| 47 This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with |
| 48 slightly different meanings. |
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| 51 Documentation |
| 52 ------------- |
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| 54 Some tutorial is needed for liblzma. I have planned to write some |
| 55 extremely well commented example programs, which would work as |
| 56 a tutorial. I suppose the Doxygen tags are quite OK as a quick |
| 57 reference once one is familiar with the liblzma API. |
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| 59 Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms. |
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