Letter B

buffer - general purpose buffer programm

License: GPL
Vendor: Contribs.org <http://contribs.org>
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-1.19-7.el5.sme.x86_64 [21 KiB] Changelog by Shad L. Lords (2007-04-29):
- Clean up spec so package can be built by koji/plague

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