Install the man file
Approved by: wiz@(maintainer)
Upstream changes;
pigz version 2.2.5 has been released and is now available at http://zlib.net/pigz/ . The main changes since 2.2.4 are:
- Change suffix to .tar when decompressing or listing .tgz.
- Print name of executable in error messages.
- Show help properly when the name is unpigz or gunzip.
- Fix permissions security problem before output is closed.
pigz version 2.2.4 has been released and is now available at http://zlib.net/pigz/ . The main changes since 2.2.3 are:
- Improve the portability of printing the off_t type
- Fix bug in zip (-K) output
- Remove thread portability #defines in pigz.c
pigz version 2.2.3 is now available at http://zlib.net/pigz/ . The main changes since 2.1.7 are:
- Add --rsyncable functionality
- Improve thread portability
- Fix the printing of 32-bit check values when listing
pigz version 2.1.7 is now available at http://zlib.net/pigz/ . The changes from 2.1.6 are:
- Avoid unused parameter warning in reenter()
- Don't assume 2's complement ints in compress_thread()
- Replicate gzip -cdf cat-like behavior
- Replicate gzip -- option to suppress option decoding
- Test output from make test instead of showing it
- Updated pigz.spec to install unpigz, pigz.1 [Obermaier]
- Add PIGZ environment variable [Mueller]
- Replicate gzip suffix search when decoding or listing
- Fix bug in load() to set in_left to zero on end of file
- Do not check suffix when input file won't be modified
- Decompress to stdout if name is "*cat" [Hayasaka]
- Write data descriptor signature to be like Info-ZIP
- Update and sort options list in help
- Use CC variable for compiler in Makefile
- Exit with code 2 if a warning has been issued
- Fix thread synchronization problem when tracing
- Change macro name MAX to MAX2 to avoid library conflicts
- Determine number of processors on HP-UX [Lloyd]
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.
