Todd C. Miller <todd.mil...@sudo.ws> wrote: > As someone else mentioned you would use pkill on OpenBSD. > > However, you will also need to use SIGINFO, not SIGUSR1, to get > dd's status. BSD systems have traditionally used SIGINFO for this > purpose. Linux lacks SIGINFO so there is no consistent signal for > this kind of a thing there.
Hah, it goes beyond that. Sending SIGUSR1 to a random process kills it. What a hoot....
