Letter B

buffer - general purpose buffer programm

Website: http://sunsite.org.uk/public/public/packages/buffer/
License: GPL
Description:
This is a program designed to speed up writing tapes on remote tape
drives. After startup it splits itself into two processes.  The first
process reads (and reblocks) from stdin into a shared memory buffer.
The second writes from the shared memory buffer to stdout.  Doing it this way
means that the writing side effectly sits in a tight write loop and
doesn't have to wait for input.  Similarly for the input side.  It is
this waiting that slows down other reblocking processes, like dd.

Packages

buffer-1.19-11m.mo8.x86_64 [21 KiB] Changelog by Hiromasa YOSHIMOTO (2011-04-11):
- (1.19-11m)
- rebuild for new GCC 4.6

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