From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 07:55:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8141065694 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:55:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF778FC14 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-82-31-24-1.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [82.31.24.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 550505F11; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:55:06 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Alexander Best Message-ID: <20100824085506.000058d1@unknown> In-Reply-To: <201008240230.o7O2U4aR098753@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201008240230.o7O2U4aR098753@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/144531: [patch] cp(1) show percentage complete X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:55:14 -0000 On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:30:04 GMT Alexander Best wrote: > however personally i don't think that your patch will be committed > even with a new switch. `cp` has been the way it is for a very long > time and i don't think people want it to change. I believe there were even disagreements when a SIGINFO handler was added to 'cp' so you can press ^T to see the progress. Personally that's sufficient for me if I'm copying a large file. -- Bruce Cran