Request for rewiew: mbuffer-20050730

[Alexander Dalloz]

mbuffer is a raplacement for buffer with additional functionality: 
      * display of I/O speed
      * optional use of memory mapped I/O for huge buffers
      * multithreaded instead of sharedmemory ipc
      * multi volume support
      * autoloader support
      * networking support
      * compatible command-line options

This small tool is for instance very handy if you run dd to copy some
raw data, like copying a partition. As dd lacks any progress display
piping input into mbuffer and output back to dd you can follow
processing. Example:

tmp $ dd if=/dev/zero | mbuffer -m 1M | dd of=./foofile bs=1k
count=102400
in @    7.1 MB/s, out @    7.1 MB/s,   99 MB total, buffer  99% full
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out

spec file and src.rpm for review:

http://www.uni-x.org/review/mbuffer.spec
http://www.uni-x.org/review/mbuffer-20050730-1.src.rpm

Comment: I uses "/bin" rather than "%{_bindir} to make it available
together with dd even if /usr isn't mounted (emergency case).

Alexander


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