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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2015-05-11 21:26:16 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2015-05-11 21:26:40 +0300
commitff96ed6d25786728356017a13baf8c14731b4f1e (patch)
tree19f0cc74ecf40bbcf32b239f09542bf184c81e18 /src/xz
parentUpdate THANKS. (diff)
downloadxz-ff96ed6d25786728356017a13baf8c14731b4f1e.tar.xz
xz: Document that threaded decompression hasn't been implemented yet.
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diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1
index 75aead3d..bc5514d5 100644
--- a/src/xz/xz.1
+++ b/src/xz/xz.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
.\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
.\"
-.TH XZ 1 "2014-12-16" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
+.TH XZ 1 "2015-05-11" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
.
.SH NAME
xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files
@@ -1055,6 +1055,14 @@ The default block size depends on the compression level and
can be overriden with the
.BI \-\-block\-size= size
option.
+.IP ""
+Threaded decompression hasn't been implemented yet.
+It will only work on files that contain multiple blocks
+with size information in block headers.
+All files compressed in multi-threaded mode meet this condition,
+but files compressed in single-threaded mode don't even if
+.BI \-\-block\-size= size
+is used.
.
.SS "Custom compressor filter chains"
A custom filter chain allows specifying