James Carlson wrote: > James Carlson writes: >> Frank Van Der Linden writes: >>> Matty wrote: >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> Most Linux and BSD distributions ship with a version of dd that >>>> displays the status of a copy operation when a SIGUSR1 signal is >>>> received. >>> Just a correction. I know this is late in the game, and I don't want to >>> prolong the discussion much, since this isn't the right list, but: *BSD >>> uses SIGINFO, which is generated via the tty code when the user presses >>> ^T. Several tools implement a status handler that uses SIGINFO. >> CR 6310532, now celebrating its first birthday. > > Ah, surprise. I filed it even longer ago. ;-} >
Sounds like we could implement the Linux behavior wrt SIGUSR1 and then add SIGINFO support trivially once that appeared in the terminal handler... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
