Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:24:22 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: =?koi8-r?Q?Arne_Dag_Fidjest=F8l?= <adf@idi.ntnu.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proctitle progress reporting for dump(8) Message-ID: <20010904182422.B1669@sunbay.com> 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 References: <200109012143.f81LhqY96913@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200109012239.AAA00511@zevs.idi.ntnu.no> <200109020236.f822ajt99031@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:36:45PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sun, 02 Sep 2001 00:39:22 +0200, Arne Dag Fidjestøl <adf@idi.ntnu.no> 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
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