From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 4 8:25: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035F337B40D for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f84FOMu05668; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:24:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:24:22 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Garrett Wollman Cc: =?koi8-r?Q?Arne_Dag_Fidjest=F8l?= , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proctitle progress reporting for dump(8) Message-ID: <20010904182422.B1669@sunbay.com> References: <200109012143.f81LhqY96913@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200109012239.AAA00511@zevs.idi.ntnu.no> <200109020236.f822ajt99031@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109020236.f822ajt99031@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:36:45PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:36:45PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Could you please clarify your position on this issue? Is > > setproctitle() the wrong way to do this, and if so, why? > > I don't expect setproctitle() to be useful to me one way or the > other. SIGINFO, on the other hand, would help keep me from going out > of my mind while sitting at the single-user console waiting for some > filesystem move to finish. More regular updates would be almost as > good. > And you get an answer whenever you ask the question. Yes, please do it dd(1) way. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message