lcm_source(1)

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💖 lcm_source(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this page lives in the Lightweight Communications and Marshalling (LCM) manual, and it's all about a lil tool called lcm_source. it's giving "chaos gremlin for your message bus" and honestly? iconic. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

lcm_source — transmit random messages over the LC Communications library 🌈

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lcm_source [options]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so lcm_source is a utility for testing the Lightweight Communications library (LC). literally its whole job. 🫶

it transmits random messages, and here's the slay part: it can do that on either a specified LC channel or on random LC channels. your call, bestie.

and the messages themselves? they can be randomly sized, or you can pick a specified fixed size. main character energy either way. 👑

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

here's everything lcm_source gives you. no cap, this is the whole list:

  • -m CHAN — transmits messages on channel CHAN. if you don't say anything, it just goes with random channels (default: random channels) 🎲
  • -p DELAY — wait DELAY microseconds between transmissions (default: 10000). so yeah, it's pacing itself, periodt ⏳
  • -s SIZE — transmit packets of size SIZE bytes. but if SIZE is 0 — which is the default — then packets are randomly sized between 1 and 65,000 bytes 🍓
  • -v — verbose mode. prints a summary of each packet. she's chatty and we love that for her 💬
  • -h — prints this help text and exits. bye bestie 👋

lcm-source is part of the Lightweight Communications and Marshalling (LCM) project.

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. see the file COPYING in the LCM distribution for more details regarding distribution. 📄

LCM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. you should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with LCM; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 💌

fr fr, that warranty bit is not a joke — it really is distributed with no warranty at all. read the license, bestie. 📚

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

this manual page was written by Albert Huang. ty for your service king 🫡✨

and that's the whole page! this one comes from the LCM manual and it's dated 2007-12-13 — vintage but still serving 💜

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