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Submitted-By: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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Posting-Number: Volume 27, Issue 195
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Archive-Name: team/part01
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There exist a few filters that help tapes streams by buffering IO and
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allowing reads to overlaps with writes under Unix. Most of these filters
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rely on relatively unportable features, for example SYSV like shared
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memory.
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team is a filter that runs essentially unchanged on any Unix version, as
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it relies only on features present in V7. A number of team processes
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(team members) share a common input fd and a common output fd, and they
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take turns at reading from the former and writing to the latter; they
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synchronize by using a ring of pipes between them, where a "read-enable"
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and a "write-enable" token circulate.
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The team source is GPL'ed, and it comes with no warranty.
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