Empty Block was created if the input buffer was empty.
Empty Block wastes a few bytes of space, but more importantly
it triggers a bug in XZ Utils 5.0.1 and older when trying
to decompress such a file. 5.0.1 and older consider such
files to be corrupt. I thought that no encoder creates empty
Blocks when releasing 5.0.2 but I was wrong.
The biggest problem was that the integrity check type
wasn't validated, and e.g. lzma_easy_buffer_encode()
would create a corrupt .xz Stream if given an unsupported
Check ID. Luckily applications don't usually try to use
an unsupport Check ID, so this bug is unlikely to cause
many real-world problems.
It leaks old filter options structures (hundred bytes or so)
every time the lzma_stream is reinitialized. With the xz tool,
this happens when compressing multiple files.
The decoder considered empty LZMA2 streams to be corrupt.
This shouldn't matter much with .xz files, because no encoder
creates empty LZMA2 streams in .xz. This bug is more likely
to cause problems in applications that use raw LZMA2 streams.
It didn't work at all. It tried to use the -q option
for grep, but it appended it after "--". This works
around it by redirecting to /dev/null. The downside
is that this can be slower with big files compared
to proper use of "grep -q".
Thanks to Gregory Margo.
xz didn't compress setuid/setgid/sticky files and files
with multiple hard links even with --force. This bug was
introduced in 23ac2c44c3.
Thanks to Charles Wilson.
If any of the reserved members in lzma_stream are non-zero
or non-NULL, LZMA_OPTIONS_ERROR is returned. It is possible
that a new feature in the future is indicated by just setting
a reserved member to some other value, so the old liblzma
version need to catch it as an unsupported feature.
The non-standard ones from msvcrt.dll appear to work
most of the time with XZ Utils, but there are some
corner cases where things may go very wrong. So it's
good to use the better replacements provided by
MinGW(-w64) runtime.
Calling raise() to kill xz when user has pressed C-c
is a bit verbose on OS/2 and DOS/DJGPP. Instead of
calling raise(), set only the exit status to 1.
Those are the same thing, and the former makes it a bit
easier to build the code with other build systems, because
one doesn't need to update the version number into custom
config.h.
This change affects only lzmainfo. Other tools were already
using LZMA_VERSION_STRING.
Most distros want xz linked against shared liblzma, so
it doesn't help much to require --enable-dynamic for that.
Those who want to avoid PIC on x86-32 to get better
performance, can still do it e.g. by using --disable-shared
to compile xz and then another pass to compile shared liblzma.
Part of these static/dynamic tricks were needed for Windows
in the past. Nowadays we rely on GCC and binutils to do the
right thing with auto-import. If the Autotooled build system
needs to support some other toolchain on Windows in the future,
this may need some rethinking.
Lots of content was updated on the xz man page.
Technical improvements:
- Start a new sentence on a new line.
- Use fairly short lines.
- Use constant-width font for examples (where supported).
- Some minor cleanups.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some language fixes.
The code assumed that printing numbers with thousand separators
and decimal points would always produce only US-ASCII characters.
This was used for buffer sizes (with snprintf(), no overflows)
and aligning columns of the progress indicator and --list. That
assumption was wrong (e.g. LC_ALL=fi_FI.UTF-8 with glibc), so
multibyte character support was added in this commit. The old
way is used if the operating system doesn't have enough multibyte
support (e.g. lacks wcwidth()).
The sizes of buffers were increased to accomodate multibyte
characters. I don't know how big they should be exactly, but
they aren't used for anything critical, so it's not too bad.
If they still aren't big enough, I hopefully get a bug report.
snprintf() takes care of avoiding buffer overflows.
Some static buffers were replaced with buffers allocated on
stack. double_to_str() was removed. uint64_to_str() and
uint64_to_nicestr() now share the static buffer and test
for thousand separator support.
Integrity check names "None" and "Unknown-N" (2 <= N <= 15)
were marked to be translated. I had forgot these, plus they
wouldn't have worked correctly anyway before this commit,
because printing tables with multibyte strings didn't work.
Thanks to Marek Černocký for reporting the bug about
misaligned table columns in --list output.
