General information

genbuf is a generic line buffering tool that can be used for about anything that is linebased and needs buffering.

Supported streams

Input types (one or more):

file : File / Pipe / Fifo
tcp : TCP/IP
udp : UDP/IP
unix : Unix Domain sockets

Output types (one):

file : File / Pipe / Fifo
tcp : TCP/IP (TODO udp: UDP/IP) (TODO unix: Unix domain sockets)

Backlog

Genbuf has backlog support. If delivery fails 3 times, it will write the entire buffer to file. As soon as delivery succeeds again it will stop writing to the backlog and write the entire backlog to the recipient, afterwards it truncates the backlog and resumes with the buffer.

Synopsis

genbuf: -h(elp) -v(erbose) [-in <type> -s((ou)rc(e)) <res>]+ [-out <type> -d((e)st(ination)) <res>]

        <type>=file/udp/tcp/unix
        <res>=filename/host:port