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xz: Reorder robot mode subsections in the man page.

The order is now consistent with the order the command line arguments
are documented earlier in the man page. The new order is:
1. --list
2. --info-memory
3. --version

Instead of the previous order:
1. --version
2. --info-memory
3. --list
This commit is contained in:
Jia Tan 2023-06-19 23:07:10 +08:00
parent 9628be23ae
commit f5dc172a40

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@ -2049,107 +2049,13 @@ easier to parse by other programs.
Currently Currently
.B \-\-robot .B \-\-robot
is supported only together with is supported only together with
.BR \-\-version , .BR \-\-list ,
.BR \-\-info\-memory , .BR \-\-info\-memory ,
and and
.BR \-\-list . .BR \-\-version .
It will be supported for compression and It will be supported for compression and
decompression in the future. decompression in the future.
. .
.SS Version
.B "xz \-\-robot \-\-version"
will print the version number of
.B xz
and liblzma in the following format:
.PP
.BI XZ_VERSION= XYYYZZZS
.br
.BI LIBLZMA_VERSION= XYYYZZZS
.TP
.I X
Major version.
.TP
.I YYY
Minor version.
Even numbers are stable.
Odd numbers are alpha or beta versions.
.TP
.I ZZZ
Patch level for stable releases or
just a counter for development releases.
.TP
.I S
Stability.
0 is alpha, 1 is beta, and 2 is stable.
.I S
should be always 2 when
.I YYY
is even.
.PP
.I XYYYZZZS
are the same on both lines if
.B xz
and liblzma are from the same XZ Utils release.
.PP
Examples: 4.999.9beta is
.B 49990091
and
5.0.0 is
.BR 50000002 .
.
.SS "Memory limit information"
.B "xz \-\-robot \-\-info\-memory"
prints a single line with three tab-separated columns:
.IP 1. 4
Total amount of physical memory (RAM) in bytes.
.IP 2. 4
Memory usage limit for compression in bytes
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-compress ).
A special value of
.B 0
indicates the default setting
which for single-threaded mode is the same as no limit.
.IP 3. 4
Memory usage limit for decompression in bytes
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-decompress ).
A special value of
.B 0
indicates the default setting
which for single-threaded mode is the same as no limit.
.IP 4. 4
Since
.B xz
5.3.4alpha:
Memory usage for multi-threaded decompression in bytes
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress ).
This is never zero because a system-specific default value
shown in the column 5
is used if no limit has been specified explicitly.
This is also never greater than the value in the column 3
even if a larger value has been specified with
.BR \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress .
.IP 5. 4
Since
.B xz
5.3.4alpha:
A system-specific default memory usage limit
that is used to limit the number of threads
when compressing with an automatic number of threads
.RB ( \-\-threads=0 )
and no memory usage limit has been specified
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-compress ).
This is also used as the default value for
.BR \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress .
.IP 6. 4
Since
.B xz
5.3.4alpha:
Number of available processor threads.
.PP
In the future, the output of
.B "xz \-\-robot \-\-info\-memory"
may have more columns, but never more than a single line.
.
.SS "List mode" .SS "List mode"
.B "xz \-\-robot \-\-list" .B "xz \-\-robot \-\-list"
uses tab-separated output. uses tab-separated output.
@ -2434,6 +2340,100 @@ Future versions may add new line types and
new columns can be added to the existing line types, new columns can be added to the existing line types,
but the existing columns won't be changed. but the existing columns won't be changed.
. .
.SS "Memory limit information"
.B "xz \-\-robot \-\-info\-memory"
prints a single line with three tab-separated columns:
.IP 1. 4
Total amount of physical memory (RAM) in bytes.
.IP 2. 4
Memory usage limit for compression in bytes
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-compress ).
A special value of
.B 0
indicates the default setting
which for single-threaded mode is the same as no limit.
.IP 3. 4
Memory usage limit for decompression in bytes
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-decompress ).
A special value of
.B 0
indicates the default setting
which for single-threaded mode is the same as no limit.
.IP 4. 4
Since
.B xz
5.3.4alpha:
Memory usage for multi-threaded decompression in bytes
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress ).
This is never zero because a system-specific default value
shown in the column 5
is used if no limit has been specified explicitly.
This is also never greater than the value in the column 3
even if a larger value has been specified with
.BR \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress .
.IP 5. 4
Since
.B xz
5.3.4alpha:
A system-specific default memory usage limit
that is used to limit the number of threads
when compressing with an automatic number of threads
.RB ( \-\-threads=0 )
and no memory usage limit has been specified
.RB ( \-\-memlimit\-compress ).
This is also used as the default value for
.BR \-\-memlimit\-mt\-decompress .
.IP 6. 4
Since
.B xz
5.3.4alpha:
Number of available processor threads.
.PP
In the future, the output of
.B "xz \-\-robot \-\-info\-memory"
may have more columns, but never more than a single line.
.
.SS Version
.B "xz \-\-robot \-\-version"
will print the version number of
.B xz
and liblzma in the following format:
.PP
.BI XZ_VERSION= XYYYZZZS
.br
.BI LIBLZMA_VERSION= XYYYZZZS
.TP
.I X
Major version.
.TP
.I YYY
Minor version.
Even numbers are stable.
Odd numbers are alpha or beta versions.
.TP
.I ZZZ
Patch level for stable releases or
just a counter for development releases.
.TP
.I S
Stability.
0 is alpha, 1 is beta, and 2 is stable.
.I S
should be always 2 when
.I YYY
is even.
.PP
.I XYYYZZZS
are the same on both lines if
.B xz
and liblzma are from the same XZ Utils release.
.PP
Examples: 4.999.9beta is
.B 49990091
and
5.0.0 is
.BR 50000002 .
.
.SH "EXIT STATUS" .SH "EXIT STATUS"
.TP .TP
.B 0 .B 0