I am pleased to announce the release of xlunzip 0.10.
Xlunzip is a test tool for the lzip decompression code of my lzip patch for
linux. Xlunzip is similar to lunzip, but it uses the lzip_decompress linux
module as a backend. Xlunzip tests the module for stream, buffer-to-buffer,
and mixed decompression modes, including in-place decompression (using the
same buffer for input and output). You can use xlunzip to check that the
module produces correct results when decompressing single member files,
multimember files, or the concatenation of two or more compressed files.
Xlunzip can be used with unzcrash to test the robustness of the module to
the decompression of corrupted data.
The distributed index feature of the lzip format allows xlunzip to
decompress concatenated files in place. This can't be guaranteed to work
with formats like gzip or bzip2 because they can't detect whether a high
compression ratio in the first members of the multimember data is being
masked by a low compression ratio in the last members.
The xlunzip tarball contains a copy of the lzip_decompress module and can be
compiled and tested without downloading or applying the patch to the kernel.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xlunzip.html
The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/xlunzip/
The sha256sum is:
1b03849261aa4913d214f6f5461268339084a0098e8d79dc14881e060d4041d0
xlunzip-0.10.tar.lz
The lzip patch for linux can be found at
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/kernel/
Changes in version 0.10:
* '-dvv' and '-tvv' now print (de)compressed sizes instead of compression
ratio. (Sizes are more informative than compression ratio).
* Large numbers in option arguments are now accepted with underscore
separators (--insize=123_456_789).
* Large numbers are now printed with underscore separators (123_456_789).
* 'EXIT STATUS' now has its own section in the man page.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, xlunzip author and maintainer.
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
