> Just a correction. I know this is late in the game, and I don't want to > prolong the discussion much, since this isn't the right list, but: *BSD uses > SIGINFO, which is generated via the tty code when the user presses ^T. > Several tools implement a status handler that uses SIGINFO. > > I think OpenSolaris doesn't have this functionality (it was a BSD-specific > piece of functionality), hence another signal would have to be used, but that > also makes it less useful (typing ^T to the tty where the command is running, > vs. having to go to another window, doing a pgrep, and then a kill -USR1).
Note there is an outstanding RFE open on this 6310532 Solaris ldterm could support BSD's SIGINFO/VSTATUS once again dsc