https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10636
Summary: Feature request: Show current source path on receipt of Posix signal Product: rsync Version: 3.1.0 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: way...@samba.org ReportedBy: br...@jfi.uchicago.edu QAContact: rsync...@samba.org It would be nice if rsync would print the subdirectory path it is currently traversing on the sending host to stderr on receipt of some signal, perhaps with a percent done as well. The dd command does something similar; when sent SIGUSR1, it prints its i/o statistics and how much has been copied. The reason this would be nicer than rsync's --verbose and --progress options is because they're *too* verbose -- they print messages for almost everything. One has to redirect the output from them to a file, otherwise anything one is looking for will probably scroll off the terminal before it can be read. A signal would let the user get a quick overview of what is happening right now, when the information is wanted, emitting no more than a line or two of information. Printing of the currently traversed path would help in diagnosis of performance problems that may be caused by the data itself (thousands or millions of files in a folder). Most of this could be done with current options by enabling --verbose and redirecting output to a file, and then running tail on that file, but it's inconvenient, and probably the file would just be deleted later after being read. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html