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Utility to buffer an unbounded amount of data in a pipeline?

Is there a utility that I can stick in a pipeline to decouple read and write speeds? $ producer | buf | consumer Basically, I want a utility buf that reads its input as fast as possible, storing it ...
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Repeatably generate a read error for testing?

I'm trying to test the error handling in some software, in particular what happens when an error occurs reading from a file or pipe. Is there a simple way to send a certain amount of data to stdout ...
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Piping output from a segfaulting program

I have a script that calls a program (specifically, ttf2afm, part of tetex 3.0) that sometimes segfaults and sometimes doesn't. The information I need is always printed out before it segfaults, but ...