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This tag is for questions about kernel buffer caches, including pipe buffers. These are used to store the recently accessed files and/or frequently accessed files.

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“Leaky” pipes in linux

If I wanted to avoid this, I could be tempted to use a bigger pipe (or, more simply, buffer(1)) like so: $ a | buffer | b This would simply buy me more time, but in the end a would eventually stop. … To sum it up I would love to have something like a bounded, leaky buffer: $ a | leakybuffer | b I could probably implement it quite easily in any language, I was just wondering if there's something " …
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