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General purpose buffer program[ buffer-1.19-4mdv2007.0.i586.rpm - contrib ] Build by on Sunday, June 18th 2006.
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.
Licence : GPL
OS : Linux Arch : i586 / x86_64 Version : 1.19 release 4mdv2007.0
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