The changes from 2.1.5 are:
- Added pigz.spec to distribution for RPM systems [Brown]
- Avoid some compiler warnings
- Process symbolic links if piping to stdout [Hoffst?tte]
- Decompress if executable named "gunzip" [Hoffst?tte]
- Allow ".tgz" suffix [Chernookiy]
- Fix adler32 comparison on .zz files
ChangeLog:
Added 2008, 2009 to --license statement
Allow numeric parameter immediately after -p or -b
Enforce parameter after -p, -b, -s, before other options
Enforce numeric parameters to have only numeric digits
Try to determine the number of processors for -p default
Fix --suffix short option to be -S to match gzip [Bloch]
Decompress if executable named "unpigz" [Amundsen]
Add a little bit of testing to Makefile
pigz, which stands for Parallel Implementation of GZip, is a fully
functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors
and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.