[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-05 Thread casper....@sun.com
Note that SA_RESTART must be set; otherwise dd from a pipe or other slow device will return an error condition. I also like Casper's suggestion to use sprintf and write to stderr, since sprintf is now async-signal-safe. Note also that there are three gettext()s of constant strings; these

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-05 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Hi Bart, I assume your comment about helping to get this into shape means you will sponsor Ryan's work. Can someone file a bug, if there isn't one already, so I can add this to the table? Thanks. Bonnie Bart Smaalders wrote: Matty wrote: On 4/5/07, James Carlson james.d.carlson at

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

2007-04-05 Thread Bart Smaalders
Bonnie Corwin wrote: Hi Bart, I assume your comment about helping to get this into shape means you will sponsor Ryan's work. Can someone file a bug, if there isn't one already, so I can add this to the table? Thanks. Bonnie 6543165 dd should display incremental progress ala linux