[Lzip-bug] Xlunzip 0.7 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of xlunzip 0.7.

Xlunzip is a test tool for the lzip decompression code of my lzip patch for 
linux. Xlunzip is similar to lunzip, but it uses the lzip_decompress linux 
module as a backend. Xlunzip tests the module for stream, buffer-to-buffer, 
and mixed decompression modes, including in-place decompression (using the 
same buffer for input and output). You can use xlunzip to verify that the 
module produces correct results when decompressing single member files, 
multimember files, or the concatenation of two or more compressed files. 
Xlunzip can be used with unzcrash to test the robustness of the module to 
the decompression of corrupted data.

The distributed index feature of the lzip format allows xlunzip to 
decompress concatenated files in place. This can't be guaranteed to work 
with formats like gzip or bzip2 because they can't detect whether a high 
compression ratio in the first members of the multimember data is being 
masked by a low compression ratio in the last members.

The xlunzip tarball contains a copy of the lzip_decompress module and can be 
compiled and tested without downloading or applying the patch to the kernel.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xlunzip.html

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/xlunzip/

The sha256sum is:
9006c2a7c202bf2a725fd37115106c0876e7047ececd8778ba0eaec4849c785b 
xlunzip-0.7.tar.lz

The lzip patch for linux can be found at 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/kernel/

Changes in version 0.7:

  * Xlunzip now does not even open the output file if the input file is a 
terminal.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to lzip-bug@nongnu.org


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, xlunzip author and maintainer.
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If you care about data safety and long-term archiving, please consider using 
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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.