Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose you're referring to this part of the POSIX spec: > > The signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are commonly used by applications for > notification of exceptional behavior and are described as ``reserved as > application-defined'' so that such use is not prohibited.
This sounds to me like an explicit approval of dd's use of SIGUSR1. > And so dd shouldn't use SIGUSR1, because some application (e.g., a > program that invokes dd) might use SIGUSR1 for something unrelated. You mean a program might send SIGUSR1 to other, unrelated programs (and therefore not knowing how they handle it)? Sounds like a bug in the killer. > The ideal would be to find an approach that avoids adding a new option > to each tool that supports a progress bar. Environment variable? paul _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
