1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
3 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
5 /// \file 02_decompress.c
6 /// \brief Decompress .xz files to stdout
8 /// Usage: ./02_decompress INPUT_FILES... > OUTFILE
10 /// Example: ./02_decompress foo.xz bar.xz > foobar
12 // Author: Lasse Collin
14 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
25 init_decoder(lzma_stream
*strm
)
27 // Initialize a .xz decoder. The decoder supports a memory usage limit
28 // and a set of flags.
30 // The memory usage of the decompressor depends on the settings used
31 // to compress a .xz file. It can vary from less than a megabyte to
32 // a few gigabytes, but in practice (at least for now) it rarely
33 // exceeds 65 MiB because that's how much memory is required to
34 // decompress files created with "xz -9". Settings requiring more
35 // memory take extra effort to use and don't (at least for now)
36 // provide significantly better compression in most cases.
38 // Memory usage limit is useful if it is important that the
39 // decompressor won't consume gigabytes of memory. The need
40 // for limiting depends on the application. In this example,
41 // no memory usage limiting is used. This is done by setting
42 // the limit to UINT64_MAX.
44 // The .xz format allows concatenating compressed files as is:
46 // echo foo | xz > foobar.xz
47 // echo bar | xz >> foobar.xz
49 // When decompressing normal standalone .xz files, LZMA_CONCATENATED
50 // should always be used to support decompression of concatenated
51 // .xz files. If LZMA_CONCATENATED isn't used, the decoder will stop
52 // after the first .xz stream. This can be useful when .xz data has
53 // been embedded inside another file format.
55 // Flags other than LZMA_CONCATENATED are supported too, and can
56 // be combined with bitwise-or. See lzma/container.h
57 // (src/liblzma/api/lzma/container.h in the source package or e.g.
58 // /usr/include/lzma/container.h depending on the install prefix)
60 lzma_ret ret
= lzma_stream_decoder(
61 strm
, UINT64_MAX
, LZMA_CONCATENATED
);
63 // Return successfully if the initialization went fine.
67 // Something went wrong. The possible errors are documented in
68 // lzma/container.h (src/liblzma/api/lzma/container.h in the source
69 // package or e.g. /usr/include/lzma/container.h depending on the
72 // Note that LZMA_MEMLIMIT_ERROR is never possible here. If you
73 // specify a very tiny limit, the error will be delayed until
74 // the first headers have been parsed by a call to lzma_code().
78 msg
= "Memory allocation failed";
81 case LZMA_OPTIONS_ERROR
:
82 msg
= "Unsupported decompressor flags";
86 // This is most likely LZMA_PROG_ERROR indicating a bug in
87 // this program or in liblzma. It is inconvenient to have a
88 // separate error message for errors that should be impossible
89 // to occur, but knowing the error code is important for
90 // debugging. That's why it is good to print the error code
91 // at least when there is no good error message to show.
92 msg
= "Unknown error, possibly a bug";
96 fprintf(stderr
, "Error initializing the decoder: %s (error code %u)\n",
103 decompress(lzma_stream
*strm
, const char *inname
, FILE *infile
, FILE *outfile
)
105 // When LZMA_CONCATENATED flag was used when initializing the decoder,
106 // we need to tell lzma_code() when there will be no more input.
107 // This is done by setting action to LZMA_FINISH instead of LZMA_RUN
108 // in the same way as it is done when encoding.
110 // When LZMA_CONCATENATED isn't used, there is no need to use
111 // LZMA_FINISH to tell when all the input has been read, but it
112 // is still OK to use it if you want. When LZMA_CONCATENATED isn't
113 // used, the decoder will stop after the first .xz stream. In that
114 // case some unused data may be left in strm->next_in.
115 lzma_action action
= LZMA_RUN
;
117 uint8_t inbuf
[BUFSIZ
];
118 uint8_t outbuf
[BUFSIZ
];
120 strm
->next_in
= NULL
;
122 strm
->next_out
= outbuf
;
123 strm
->avail_out
= sizeof(outbuf
);
126 if (strm
->avail_in
== 0 && !feof(infile
)) {
127 strm
->next_in
= inbuf
;
128 strm
->avail_in
= fread(inbuf
, 1, sizeof(inbuf
),
131 if (ferror(infile
)) {
132 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: Read error: %s\n",
133 inname
, strerror(errno
));
137 // Once the end of the input file has been reached,
138 // we need to tell lzma_code() that no more input
139 // will be coming. As said before, this isn't required
140 // if the LZMA_CONCATENATED flag isn't used when
141 // initializing the decoder.
143 action
= LZMA_FINISH
;
146 lzma_ret ret
= lzma_code(strm
, action
);
148 if (strm
->avail_out
== 0 || ret
== LZMA_STREAM_END
) {
149 size_t write_size
= sizeof(outbuf
) - strm
->avail_out
;
151 if (fwrite(outbuf
, 1, write_size
, outfile
)
153 fprintf(stderr
, "Write error: %s\n",
158 strm
->next_out
= outbuf
;
159 strm
->avail_out
= sizeof(outbuf
);
162 if (ret
!= LZMA_OK
) {
163 // Once everything has been decoded successfully, the
164 // return value of lzma_code() will be LZMA_STREAM_END.
166 // It is important to check for LZMA_STREAM_END. Do not
167 // assume that getting ret != LZMA_OK would mean that
168 // everything has gone well or that when you aren't
169 // getting more output it must have successfully
170 // decoded everything.
171 if (ret
== LZMA_STREAM_END
)
174 // It's not LZMA_OK nor LZMA_STREAM_END,
175 // so it must be an error code. See lzma/base.h
176 // (src/liblzma/api/lzma/base.h in the source package
177 // or e.g. /usr/include/lzma/base.h depending on the
178 // install prefix) for the list and documentation of
179 // possible values. Many values listen in lzma_ret
180 // enumeration aren't possible in this example, but
181 // can be made possible by enabling memory usage limit
182 // or adding flags to the decoder initialization.
186 msg
= "Memory allocation failed";
189 case LZMA_FORMAT_ERROR
:
190 // .xz magic bytes weren't found.
191 msg
= "The input is not in the .xz format";
194 case LZMA_OPTIONS_ERROR
:
195 // For example, the headers specify a filter
196 // that isn't supported by this liblzma
197 // version (or it hasn't been enabled when
198 // building liblzma, but no-one sane does
199 // that unless building liblzma for an
200 // embedded system). Upgrading to a newer
201 // liblzma might help.
203 // Note that it is unlikely that the file has
204 // accidentally became corrupt if you get this
205 // error. The integrity of the .xz headers is
206 // always verified with a CRC32, so
207 // unintentionally corrupt files can be
208 // distinguished from unsupported files.
209 msg
= "Unsupported compression options";
212 case LZMA_DATA_ERROR
:
213 msg
= "Compressed file is corrupt";
217 // Typically this error means that a valid
218 // file has got truncated, but it might also
219 // be a damaged part in the file that makes
220 // the decoder think the file is truncated.
221 // If you prefer, you can use the same error
222 // message for this as for LZMA_DATA_ERROR.
223 msg
= "Compressed file is truncated or "
228 // This is most likely LZMA_PROG_ERROR.
229 msg
= "Unknown error, possibly a bug";
233 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: Decoder error: "
234 "%s (error code %u)\n",
243 main(int argc
, char **argv
)
246 fprintf(stderr
, "Usage: %s FILES...\n", argv
[0]);
250 lzma_stream strm
= LZMA_STREAM_INIT
;
254 // Try to decompress all files.
255 for (int i
= 1; i
< argc
; ++i
) {
256 if (!init_decoder(&strm
)) {
257 // Decoder initialization failed. There's no point
258 // to retry it so we need to exit.
263 FILE *infile
= fopen(argv
[i
], "rb");
265 if (infile
== NULL
) {
266 fprintf(stderr
, "%s: Error opening the "
268 argv
[i
], strerror(errno
));
271 success
&= decompress(&strm
, argv
[i
], infile
, stdout
);
276 // Free the memory allocated for the decoder. This only needs to be
277 // done after the last file.
280 if (fclose(stdout
)) {
281 fprintf(stderr
, "Write error: %s\n", strerror(errno
));
285 return success
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
;