:: commit 97a6da2e51087b513e5065424c751928256b3d7e
Document default value of --jobs and --block (#172)
Somewhat unobvious what the default is: you need to read the source or compress a sufficiently large file and check with top. For --block it was mentioned in the --help output but not the manpage.
diff --git a/bzip3.1.in b/bzip3.1.in
index f35fda1..0281397 100644
--- a/bzip3.1.in
+++ b/bzip3.1.in
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ files in the current directory.
.TP
.B \-b --block N
Set the block size to N mebibytes. The minimum is 1MiB, the maximum is
-511MiB.
+511MiB. The default is 16MiB.
.TP
.B \-c --stdout
Force writing output data to the standard output if one file is
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ Overwrite existing files.
Display a help message and exit.
.TP
.B \-j --jobs N
-Set the amount of parallel worker threads that process one block each.
+Set the amount of parallel worker threads that process one block each. Default
+is to use 1 worker thread.
.TP
.B \--rm
Remove the input files after successful compression or decompression. This is
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 8641aba..9d880b0 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void help() {
" -b N, --block=N set block size in MiB {16}\n"
" -B, --batch process all files specified as inputs\n"
#ifdef PTHREAD
- " -j N, --jobs=N set the amount of parallel threads\n"
+ " -j N, --jobs=N set the amount of parallel threads {1}\n"
#endif
"\n"
"Report bugs to: https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3\n");
