[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 01 Sep 2023 23:32:16 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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).

Which is what I do.