Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:43:11 +0300 (MSK) From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim.konovalov@gmail.com> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd dies on SIGUSR1 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103211741220.58326@mp2.macomnet.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mWZ7j=pN-tDo_7E7SmFtHnCDEy3pMSBhBoiBL@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=mWZ7j=pN-tDo_7E7SmFtHnCDEy3pMSBhBoiBL@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, 12:03-0000, Chris Rees wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have any thoughts on [1]? > > > It's a common usage in GNU systems to send SIGUSR1 to dd, which > causes it to print info. However... when I tried it it died (ouch). > > Two patches are in the PR, one to print summary (imitate GNU) and > after talking to gavin@ on #bsdcode I made one to ignore the signal. > > Which one of these fixes will be most popular? > FreeBSD uses SIGINFO for such purposes for ages in many programs apart from dd(1). IMHO, nothing to fix here. -- Maxim Konovalov
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