On 2008-Nov-05 17:40:11 +0400, rihad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Imagine this shell pipeline: > >sh prog1 | sh prog2 > > >As given above, prog1 blocks if prog2 hasn't yet read previously written >data (actually, newline separated commands) or is busy. What I want is >for prog1 to never block: > >sh prog1 | buffer | sh prog2
There's also misc/mbuffer which is supposed to be an enhancement of misc/buffer - though I haven't used either. I have a program I wrote to do this but it's not in a releasable state. >Wouldn't such an intermediary tool be a great way to boost performance >for certain types of solutions? I've found that for dump|restore or dump|gzip, I can get quite significant speedups by adding a buffer that is several hundred MB in the middle. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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