Source: libc6 Severity: wishlist I'm not entirely sure which package to file this against, but libc seems like a good place to start.
FreeBSD has support for the SIGINFO signal which, by default, can be sent to any terminal by typing ^T, akin to how SIGINT is sent by typing ^C. It is ignored by processes by default, but can be used to make an asynchronous request to display info for long-running operations, which is a nice thing. For example, it is used by dd in a manner similar to how GNU dd uses SIGUSR1; but the nice thing is that a) it can be sent easily with a terminal keypress and b) it's there for that purpose, so any program can use it without conflicting with other signal usage. It would be a very Nice Thing if GNU/Linux could support this. I know this is not a Debian-specific issue, but since it's a more OS-wide issue not bound to any particular package, I though this would be a good way to handle it. In the first instance, I'd like to know if there is any resistance against this kind of change. Otherwise, I'll investigate writing the necessary code myself. -- Fredrik Tolf -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
