On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, at 09:38, Paul Eggert wrote: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > It would be nicer to use a fixed number of > > decimals so that the message doesn't unnecessarily "jump". > > Yes, and since the messages you're talking about are supposed to come out > once a > second, dd should just omit everything after the decimal point.
Well, in the past week I have been writing several ISO images to a USB stick, and dd's progress messages first come out at about 1.1 second intervals, then slow down to about every four or five seconds, and after about a minute start to arrive again at close to every 1.0 seconds. (Also, when dd is done copying records, the USB stick isn't ready yet: it continuous blinking for nearly a minute, but dd sits there as if nothing is happening. I don't know if this is feasible, but it would be nice if dd would continue to count up the seconds, and slowly reduce the transfer rate.) > Thanks for your other comments. I installed the attached patch, which I hope > addresses them. Okay. If I understand the new comment well, I would have written: /* TRANSLATORS: The translations of the next three msgids should be of ascending length. That is: each subsequent msgstr should be longer than the preceding one. */ Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again