On my system dd segfaults if I send a USR1 signal to make it print statistics:
start in first terminal: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null start in second terminal: kill -USR1 [pid_of_dd] Output from dd: 17373419+0 records in 17373418+0 records out Segmentation fault -- dd segfaults which it doesn't with the breezy package (on dapper) https://launchpad.net/bugs/36036 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs