On 23 October 2014 01:31, Jameson Nash <[email protected]> wrote: > > As an extension of Steven's suggestion, you could use other signals too (eg > like how 'kill -SIGINFO' will give you a backtrace)
SIGINFO is a lovely signal indeed. For example, Ctrl+t when running
cp gives you the status of the file currently being copied.
Unfortunately it is a BSD-ism and will not work for Linux or Windows.
I am not sure what one could use as a portable alternative, possibly
SIGUSR1?
Pontus
