Hello Ole, :-)
Ole Tange wrote:
I have just been alerted to Zutils today. From the man page I cannot
see if you use the parallelized versions of the decompressors (pbzip2
and plzip).
Zutils currently only uses the "standard" (single-threaded)
decompressors. As I don't like the idea of using only the parallelized
versions of the decompressors, (among other things they are less
portable and consume more resources), I guess some kind of configuration
will be needed to support them. I am open to suggestions about this. ;-)
Also it would be nice if Zutils supported zip and 7z (see the attached
zzcat on how that can be done).
IIRC neither zip nor 7zip support stdin. I see zzcat uses a temporary
file, which can create a lot of trouble, ranging from full-disk errors
to perhaps non-graceful terminations similar to this[1].
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-02/msg00006.html
It seems to me that supporting zip and 7z would make impossible zutils'
goal of decompressing on the fly without temporary files.
Also 7zip is a windows-only program, and it seems there are problems
porting zutils to windows because of buggy support for named pipes on
Cygwin. I think mixing posix and windows programs is not a good idea.
Best regards,
Antonio.
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