misc/mbuffer 20260511 FreeBSD

Tool for buffering data streams

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
License: GPLv3+
Categories: misc
Package size: 53.3 KiB, 121.1 KiB installed

Description

mbuffer is a tool for buffering data streams. It is also a replacement for buffer with additional functionality:

multi-target network output
on the fly hash calculation
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
command-line options compatible to buffer

In the other systems

System	Port	Version
FreeBSD	misc/mbuffer	20260511
NetBSD	misc/mbuffer	20250429nb1
DragonFly	misc/mbuffer	20241007
MidnightBSD	misc/mbuffer	20241007

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

misc/mbuffer

20260511

NetBSD

misc/mbuffer

20250429nb1

DragonFly

misc/mbuffer

20241007

MidnightBSD

misc/mbuffer

20241007

Install

Binary package:

pkg install mbuffer

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/misc/mbuffer/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	mbuffer>0:misc/mbuffer

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	20260511	20260511	20220418	20250429	20260511
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	20260511	20260511	n/a	20250429	20260511
FreeBSD:15:latest	20260511	20260511	n/a	20250429	20250429
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	20260511	20260511	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	20260511	20260511	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Test 1

gtar : archivers/gtar

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 8

Run dependencies 1

security/mhash

Required by 6

Configuration

Options name: misc_mbuffer

Option	Default	Description
GCRYPT	off	Use gcrypt for hash generation
MHASH	on	Use mhash for hash generation
RHASH	off	Use rhash for hash generation

Option

Default

Description

GCRYPT

off

Use gcrypt for hash generation

MHASH

Use mhash for hash generation

RHASH

off

Use rhash for hash generation

USES: autoreconf gmake localbase ssl tar:tgz
Service scripts: none

Files

Manual pages 1

mbuffer(1)

pkg-plist 3

bin/mbuffer
@sample etc/mbuffer.rc.sample
share/man/man1/mbuffer.1.gz

distinfo 1

File	Size	SHA256
mbuffer-20260511.tgz	156683	13bab36f39408f7a08fb368913290ad0f117c934bab602094e18fcc123ec5783

File

Size

SHA256

mbuffer-20260511.tgz

156683

13bab36f39408f7a08fb368913290ad0f117c934bab602094e18fcc123ec5783

Master sites 1

https://www.maier-komor.de/software/mbuffer/

Commit history 0

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