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xz: Document behavior of --block-list with threads.
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.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
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.\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
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.\"
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.TH XZ 1 "2013-10-22" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
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.TH XZ 1 "2013-10-25" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
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.
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.SH NAME
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xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files
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may be used as the last value to indicate that
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the rest of the file should be encoded as a single block.
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.IP ""
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.B "Currently this option is badly broken if used together with"
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.B "\-\-block\-size or with multithreading."
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If this option is used in threaded mode and one specifies
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.I sizes
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that exceed the encoder's block size
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(either the default value or the value specified
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with \fB\-\-block\-size=\fIsize\fR),
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the encoder will create additional blocks while
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keeping the boundaries specified in
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.IR sizes .
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For example, if one specifies
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.B \-\-threads=2
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.B \-\-block\-size=10MiB
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.B \-\-block\-list=5MiB,10MiB,8MiB,12MiB,24MiB
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and the input file is 80 MiB,
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one will get 11 blocks:
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5, 10, 8, 10, 2, 10, 10, 4, 10, 10, and 1 MiB.
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.IP ""
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.\" FIXME
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.B "In single-threaded mode \-\-block\-size is ignored"
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.B "if \-\-block\-list is also specified."
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.B "This might change before 5.2.0 is released."
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.TP
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.BI \-\-flush\-timeout= timeout
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When compressing, if more than
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