All releases of Measuring Buffer


Release Notes: mbuffer should now always set the exit code to EXIT_FAILURE whenever an error occurs.


Release Notes: This release enhances performance and the build system, and adds a new option to enforce synchronous I/O.


Release Notes: This release uses sendfile only for sockets, makes signal handling conform more to standards, changes thread cancellation to deferred behavior, and fixes some debugging messages.


Release Notes: This release clarifies some error and warning messages, fixes some typos, and updates the documentation.


Release Notes: Adds support for sendfile to enhance performance (on Solaris only), for locking buffers in memory, and for large files. Furthermore, a new command line option to specify the buffer size as percentage of physical memory has been added, the TMPDIR variable is evaluated, and things now get compiled as 64-bit executables per default on sun4u and opteron based systems.


Release Notes: Enables reusing of sockets, fixes some build issues, adds a sanity check, adds some examples to the documentation.


Release Notes: The sources are now clean of the misdemeanors detected by lint. A minor fix was made to support intergration into source-package based distributions.


Release Notes: Support was added for libssl base MD5 hashing. Support was added for executing a user-defined command to change the volume on an autoloader. Parameter parsing was enhanced. Additonal sanity checks are made. Minor bugfixes were made.


Release Notes: The display format has been updated to show MB/s instead of kB/s when the value is > 3072. There is a fix for possible lockup upon SIGINTR, a fix for elapsed time display, and build fixes.


Release Notes: Support for high and low watermark was added for fast streamers. Support for md5 and mhash libraries was added. A major bug that could cause corrupted data in the last transfered block was fixed. changes to make The source code was changed to conform to standards. Compile fixes and many cleanups were done.