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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2014-06-29 20:54:14 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2014-06-29 20:54:14 +0300
commit17215f751c354852700e7f8592ccf319570a0721 (patch)
tree27b942dc38499eb18786cb8700bcbcd8cf398132 /src/xz
parentxz: Use lzma_cputhreads() instead of own copy of tuklib_cpucores(). (diff)
downloadxz-17215f751c354852700e7f8592ccf319570a0721.tar.xz
xz: Update the help message of a few options.
Updated: --threads, --block-size, and --block-list Added: --flush-timeout
Diffstat (limited to 'src/xz')
-rw-r--r--src/xz/message.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/message.c b/src/xz/message.c
index e94a94d5..c85a2cb3 100644
--- a/src/xz/message.c
+++ b/src/xz/message.c
@@ -1134,19 +1134,23 @@ message_help(bool long_help)
puts(_(
" -T, --threads=NUM use at most NUM threads; the default is 1; set to 0\n"
-" to use the number of processor cores"));
+" to use as many threads as there are processor cores"));
if (long_help) {
- // FIXME? Mention something about threading?
puts(_(
" --block-size=SIZE\n"
-" when compressing to the .xz format, start a new block\n"
-" after every SIZE bytes of input; 0=disabled (default)"));
- // FIXME
+" start a new .xz block after every SIZE bytes of input;\n"
+" use this to set the block size for threaded compression"));
puts(_(
" --block-list=SIZES\n"
-" when compressing to the .xz format, start a new block\n"
-" after the given intervals of uncompressed data"));
+" start a new .xz block after the given comma-separated\n"
+" intervals of uncompressed data"));
+ puts(_(
+" --flush-timeout=TIMEOUT\n"
+" when compressing, if more than TIMEOUT milliseconds has\n"
+" passed since the previous flush and reading more input\n"
+" would block, all pending data is flushed out"
+ ));
puts(_( // xgettext:no-c-format
" --memlimit-compress=LIMIT\n"
" --memlimit-decompress=LIMIT\n"