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Lasse Collin 792331bdee Disable the memory usage limiter by default.
For several people, the limiter causes bigger problems that
it solves, so it is better to have it disabled by default.
Those who want to have a limiter by default need to enable
it via the environment variable XZ_DEFAULTS.

Support for environment variable XZ_DEFAULTS was added. It is
parsed before XZ_OPT and technically identical with it. The
intended uses differ quite a bit though; see the man page.

The memory usage limit can now be set separately for
compression and decompression using --memlimit-compress and
--memlimit-decompress. To set both at once, -M or --memlimit
can be used. --memory was retained as a legacy alias for
--memlimit for backwards compatibility.

The semantics of --info-memory were changed in backwards
incompatible way. Compatibility wasn't meaningful due to
changes in the memory usage limiter functionality.

The memory usage limiter info is no longer shown at the
bottom of xz --long -help.

The memory usage limiter support for removed completely from xzdec.

xz's man page was updated to match the above changes. Various
unrelated fixes were also made to the man page.
2010-08-07 20:45:18 +03:00
Lasse Collin e1b6935d60 Fix string to uint64_t conversion.
Thanks to Denis Excoffier for the bug report.
2010-06-11 21:43:28 +03:00
Lasse Collin cf38da00a1 Treat all integer multiplier suffixes as base-2.
Originally both base-2 and base-10 were supported, but since
there seems to be little need for base-10 in XZ Utils, treat
everything as base-2 and also be more relaxed about the case
of the first letter of the suffix. Now xz will accept e.g.
KiB, Ki, k, K, kB, and KB, and interpret them all as 1024. The
recommended spelling of the suffixes are still KiB, MiB, and GiB.
2010-03-07 13:59:32 +02:00
Lasse Collin 00fc1211ae Consistently round up the memory usage limit in messages.
It still feels a bit wrong to round 1 byte to 1 MiB but
at least it is now done consistently so that the same
byte value is always rounded the same way to MiB.
2010-03-07 13:50:23 +02:00
Lasse Collin 2672bcc9f8 Increase the default memory usage limit on "low-memory" systems.
Previously the default limit was always 40 % of RAM. The
new limit is a little bit more complex:

  - If 40 % of RAM is at least 80 MiB, 40 % of RAM is used
    as the limit.

  - If 80 % of RAM is over 80 MiB, 80 MiB is used as the limit.

  - Otherwise 80 % of RAM is used as the limit.

This should make it possible to decompress files created with
"xz -9" on more systems. Swapping is generally more expected
on systems with less RAM, so higher default limit on them
shouldn't cause too bad surprises in terms of heavy swapping.
Instead, the higher default limit should reduce the number of
bad surprises when it used to prevent decompression of files
created with "xz -9". The DoS prevention system shouldn't be
a DoS itself.

Note that even with the new default limit, a system with 64 MiB
RAM cannot decompress files created with "xz -9" without user
overriding the limit. This should be OK, because if xz is going
to need more memory than the system has RAM, it will run very
very slowly and thus it's good that user has to override the limit
in that case.
2010-03-07 13:29:28 +02:00
Lasse Collin eb7d51a3fa Collection of language fixes to comments and docs.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder.
2010-02-12 13:16:15 +02:00
Lasse Collin b063cc34a3 Use PACKAGE_URL instead of custom PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE. 2010-01-27 13:31:03 +02:00
Lasse Collin 93e418562c Add lzma_physmem().
I had hoped to keep liblzma as purely a compression
library as possible (e.g. file I/O will go into
a different library), but it seems that applications
linking agaisnt liblzma need some way to determine
the memory usage limit, and knowing the amount of RAM
is one reasonable way to help making such decisions.

Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the original patch.
2009-11-15 12:40:17 +02:00
Lasse Collin 29fd321033 Add support for --enable-assume-ram=SIZE. 2009-10-02 14:35:56 +03:00
Lasse Collin e599bba421 Various changes.
Separate a few reusable components from XZ Utils specific
code. The reusable code is now in "tuklib" modules. A few
more could be separated still, e.g. bswap.h.

Fix some bugs in lzmainfo.

Fix physmem and cpucores code on OS/2. Thanks to Elbert Pol
for help.

Add OpenVMS support into physmem. Add a few #ifdefs to ease
building XZ Utils on OpenVMS. Thanks to Jouk Jansen for the
original patch.
2009-09-19 09:47:30 +03:00
Lasse Collin 4ab7b16b95 A few grammar fixes.
Thanks to Christian Weisgerber for pointing out some of these.
2009-09-12 14:07:36 +03:00
Lasse Collin a4165d0584 Sync some error messages from xz to xzdec.
Make xz error message translation usable outside
xz (at least in upcoming lzmainfo).
2009-08-13 12:42:36 +03:00
Lasse Collin 64e498c89d Added public domain notice into a few files. 2009-07-18 11:26:39 +03:00
Lasse Collin 3bdb53792c Remove --force from xzdec.
It was ignored for compatibility with xz, but now that
--decompress --stdout --force copies unrecognized files
as is to stdout, simply ignoring --force in xzdec would
be wrong. xzdec will not support copying unrecognized
data as is to stdout, so it cannot support --force.
2009-07-08 22:50:16 +03:00
Lasse Collin 5f16ef4abf Use sed instead of $(SED) so that we don't need to
use AC_PROG_SED. We don't do anything fancy with sed,
so this should work OK. libtool 2.2 sets SED but 1.5
doesn't, so $(SED) happened to work when using libtool 2.2.
2009-07-06 10:36:04 +03:00
Lasse Collin 0a289c01ac Define PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE in configure.ac and use it in
xz and xzdec.

Use also PACKAGE_NAME instead of hardcoding "XZ Utils".
2009-07-02 14:30:38 +03:00
Lasse Collin f42ee98166 Build system fixes
Don't use libtool convenience libraries to avoid recently
discovered long-standing subtle but somewhat severe bugs
in libtool (at least 1.5.22 and 2.2.6 are affected). It
was found when porting XZ Utils to Windows
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-06/msg00070.html>
but the problem is significant also e.g. on GNU/Linux.

Unless --disable-shared is passed to configure, static
library built from a set of convenience libraries will
contain PIC objects. That is, while libtool builds non-PIC
objects too, only PIC objects will be used from the
convenience libraries. On 32-bit x86 (tested on mobile XP2400+),
using PIC instead of non-PIC makes the decompressor 10 % slower
with the default CFLAGS.

So while xz was linked against static liblzma by default,
it got the slower PIC objects unless --disable-shared was
used. I tend develop and benchmark with --disable-shared
due to faster build time, so I hadn't noticed the problem
in benchmarks earlier.

This commit also adds support for building Windows resources
into liblzma and executables.
2009-06-30 17:09:57 +03:00
Lasse Collin 7ff0004fbc Moved the Windows resource files outside the windows directory
to prepare for building them with Autotools.
2009-06-27 17:28:01 +03:00
Lasse Collin 792db79f27 Create correct symlinks even when
--program-{prefix,suffix,transform} is passed to configure.
2009-06-27 12:32:40 +03:00
Lasse Collin 1c9360b7d1 Fix @variables@ to $(variables) in Makefile.am files.
Fix the ordering of libgnu.a and LTLIBINTL on the linker
command line and added missing LTLIBINTL to tests/Makefile.am.
2009-06-26 14:47:31 +03:00
Lasse Collin 8ed156ce89 Added xzdec man page. 2009-06-04 23:42:12 +03:00
Lasse Collin f6df39afaa Harmonized xzdec --memory with xz --memory and made
minor cleanups.
2009-06-04 23:26:47 +03:00
Lasse Collin dcedb6998c Added support for --quiet and --no-warn to xzdec.
Cleaned up the --help message a little.
2009-05-22 16:40:50 +03:00
Lasse Collin 5f735dae80 Use the 40 % of RAM memory usage limit in xzdec too.
Update the memory usage info text in --help to match
the text in xz --long-help.
2009-05-22 15:11:52 +03:00
Lasse Collin 071b825b23 Support special value "max" where xz and xzdec accept an integer.
Don't round the memory usage limit in xzdec --help to avoid
an integer overflow and to not give wrong impression that
the limit is high enough when it may not actually be.
2009-05-21 17:22:01 +03:00
Lasse Collin 02ddf09bc3 Put the interesting parts of XZ Utils into the public domain.
Some minor documentation cleanups were made at the same time.
2009-04-13 11:27:40 +03:00
Lasse Collin fdbc0cfa71 Changed how the version number is specified in various places.
Now configure.ac will get the version number directly from
src/liblzma/api/lzma/version.h. The intent is to reduce the
number of places where the version number is duplicated. In
future, support for displaying Git commit ID may be added too.
2009-02-13 18:00:03 +02:00
Lasse Collin 96c46df7de Improve support for DOS-like systems.
Here DOS-like means DOS, Windows, and OS/2.
2009-02-13 17:29:02 +02:00
Lasse Collin 880c330938 Make it easy to choose if command line tools should be
linked statically or dynamically against liblzma. The
default is still to use static liblzma, but it can now
be changed by passing --enable-dynamic to configure.
Thanks to Mike Frysinger for the original patch.

Fixed a few minor bugs in configure.ac.
2009-02-07 21:17:07 +02:00
Lasse Collin 3e54ecee5c Fix missing newlines in xzdec.c. 2009-02-01 00:11:20 +02:00
Lasse Collin 6a2eb54092 Add LZMA_API to liblzma API headers. It's useful at least
on Windows. sysdefs.h no longer #includes lzma.h, so lzma.h
has to be #included separately where needed.
2009-01-31 11:01:48 +02:00
Lasse Collin d9993fcb4d Use _WIN32 instead of WIN32 in xzdec.c to test if compiling on Windows. 2009-01-31 10:13:09 +02:00
Lasse Collin 7ed9d943b3 Remove lzma_init() and other init functions from liblzma API.
Half of developers were already forgetting to use these
functions, which could have caused total breakage in some future
liblzma version or even now if --enable-small was used. Now
liblzma uses pthread_once() to do the initializations unless
it has been built with --disable-threads which make these
initializations thread-unsafe.

When --enable-small isn't used, liblzma currently gets needlessly
linked against libpthread (on systems that have it). While it is
stupid for now, liblzma will need threads in future anyway, so
this stupidity will be temporary only.

When --enable-small is used, different code CRC32 and CRC64 is
now used than without --enable-small. This made the resulting
binary slightly smaller, but the main reason was to clean it up
and to handle the lack of lzma_init_check().

The pkg-config file lzma.pc was renamed to liblzma.pc. I'm not
sure if it works correctly and portably for static linking
(Libs.private includes -pthread or other operating system
specific flags). Hopefully someone complains if it is bad.

lzma_rc_prices[] is now included as a precomputed array even
with --enable-small. It's just 128 bytes now that it uses uint8_t
instead of uint32_t. Smaller array seemed to be at least as fast
as the more bloated uint32_t array on x86; hopefully it's not bad
on other architectures.
2008-12-31 00:30:49 +02:00
Lasse Collin f901a290ee Build xzdec and lzmadec from xzdec.c. xzdec supports only .xz
files and lzmadec only .lzma files.
2008-11-20 18:05:52 +02:00
Lasse Collin 86a0ed8f01 Minor cleanups to xzdec. 2008-11-20 11:01:29 +02:00
Lasse Collin 1880a3927b Renamed lzma to xz and lzmadec to xzdec. We create symlinks
lzma, unlzma, and lzcat in "make install" for backwards
compatibility with LZMA Utils 4.32.x; I'm not sure if this
should be the default though.
2008-11-19 23:52:24 +02:00