[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-06 Thread Frank Van Der Linden
Matty wrote: Howdy, Most Linux and BSD distributions ship with a version of dd that displays the status of a copy operation when a SIGUSR1 signal is received. 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

[request-sponsor] Re: Adding status support to dd

2007-04-06 Thread Frank Van Der Linden
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I suppose that *BSD ignores SIGINFO by default, so that programs that don't wish to support it aren't bothered? Yep. Seems like this _could_ be added, insofar as slots 16-19 of termios c_cc[] are still unused. Have to add another signal too (eating into the