Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-28 Thread Raimo Niskanen 
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 06:07:23PM -0600, Todd C. Miller 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.
> 
>  - todd

... and do not send random signals to all processes.  Find some way to
target the right signal to the right process.  For example from a shell
script starting a dd background process use kill $! which will send a
signal to the most recent background command.


-- 

/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-27 Thread Stuart Henderson 
On 2018-06-26, Ax0n  wrote:
> When I'm dd-ing images (e.g. flashing SD Cards for raspberry pi), I
> occasionally use pv from packages to do the file reading e.g.
>
> pv armv7.img | doas dd bs=1M of=/dev/rsd1c
>
> pv will send the file/device contents to stdout as fast as it can read it,
> and dd will read stdin to write the file to disk (or to the raw device). pv
> outputs a status bar, throughput statistics and ETA to stderr so you can
> watch the progress.

pv can be useful, but it can also slow things down a lot sometimes.
A common shell config on BSDs is to have this:

stty status ^T

Then you can press ^T to send SIGINFO to the active process, it works
for a few things (some other common ones besides dd are ping and fsck).

Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-26 Thread Ax0n 
When I'm dd-ing images (e.g. flashing SD Cards for raspberry pi), I
occasionally use pv from packages to do the file reading e.g.

pv armv7.img | doas dd bs=1M of=/dev/rsd1c

pv will send the file/device contents to stdout as fast as it can read it,
and dd will read stdin to write the file to disk (or to the raw device). pv
outputs a status bar, throughput statistics and ETA to stderr so you can
watch the progress.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Tuyosi T  wrote:

> thanks for kind advises .
>
> on linux
> -
> # dd if=/dev/sdb of=./OpenBSD-8G-snapshot.img bs=32k
> 58195+0 records in
> 58194+0 records out
> 1906900992 bytes (1.9 GB, 1.8 GiB) copied, 25.1818 s, 75.7 MB/s
> 109011+0 records in
> 109010+0 records out
> 3572039680 bytes (3.6 GB, 3.3 GiB) copied, 56.2196 s, 63.5 MB/s
> 154198+0 records in
> 154198+0 records out
> 5052760064 bytes (5.1 GB, 4.7 GiB) copied, 87.9162 s, 57.5 MB/s
> 185970+0 records in
> 185970+0 records out
> 6093864960 bytes (6.1 GB, 5.7 GiB) copied, 116.37 s, 52.4 MB/s
> 227547+0 records in
> 227546+0 records out
> 7456227328 bytes (7.5 GB, 6.9 GiB) copied, 147.202 s, 50.7 MB/s
> 241920+0 records in
> 241920+0 records out
> 7927234560 bytes (7.9 GB, 7.4 GiB) copied, 154.806 s, 51.2 MB/s
>
> 
> regards
>

Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-26 Thread Tuyosi T 
thanks for kind advises .

on linux
-
# dd if=/dev/sdb of=./OpenBSD-8G-snapshot.img bs=32k
58195+0 records in
58194+0 records out
1906900992 bytes (1.9 GB, 1.8 GiB) copied, 25.1818 s, 75.7 MB/s
109011+0 records in
109010+0 records out
3572039680 bytes (3.6 GB, 3.3 GiB) copied, 56.2196 s, 63.5 MB/s
154198+0 records in
154198+0 records out
5052760064 bytes (5.1 GB, 4.7 GiB) copied, 87.9162 s, 57.5 MB/s
185970+0 records in
185970+0 records out
6093864960 bytes (6.1 GB, 5.7 GiB) copied, 116.37 s, 52.4 MB/s
227547+0 records in
227546+0 records out
7456227328 bytes (7.5 GB, 6.9 GiB) copied, 147.202 s, 50.7 MB/s
241920+0 records in
241920+0 records out
7927234560 bytes (7.9 GB, 7.4 GiB) copied, 154.806 s, 51.2 MB/s


regards

Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-25 Thread Theo de Raadt 
Todd C. Miller  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

Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-25 Thread Theo de Raadt 
Tuyosi T  wrote:

> hi all .
> 
> on Linux
> 
> dd-progress.bat  <
> ---
> while true
> do
> date
> killall -USR1 dd
> echo
> echo
> sleep 30
> done
> 
> but killall is not possibele on OpenBSD .
> ---
> regards

true.

doesn't work for me on windows either

Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-25 Thread Todd C. Miller 
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.

 - todd

Re: how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-25 Thread IL Ka 
I do not understand what are you trying to achieve, but instead of  killall you
may use pkill(1)



On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Tuyosi T  wrote:

> hi all .
>
> on Linux
>
> dd-progress.bat  <
> ---
> while true
> do
> date
> killall -USR1 dd
> echo
> echo
> sleep 30
> done
>
> but killall is not possibele on OpenBSD .
> ---
> regards
>

how to know the progressive state of dd

2018-06-25 Thread Tuyosi T 
hi all .

on Linux

dd-progress.bat  <
---
while true
do
date
killall -USR1 dd
echo
echo
sleep 30
done

but killall is not possibele on OpenBSD .
---
regards