[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-09-01 16:09, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:06:15 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> On 2023-08-31, candycane <candycane at f172.n1.z21.fsxnet> wrote:
>>>   SC> BTW, did you know you can send dd a signal to tell you how far
>>>   along SC> in the copy process it is and to tell you how fast the copy
>>>   is going ?
>>>
>>> I prefer doing status=progress, but it's SIGUSR1 right?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, at least on Linux.
>>
>> The dd on other operating systems may use a different signal.
> 
> SIGINFO on FreeBSD.

I think all BSD systems (including OSX). And the nice thing being that 
SIGINFO can be made to be generated when you hit ^T (or whatever other 
character you fancy).

   Johnny