[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Chris Townley]

On 01/09/2023 22:32, 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).
> 
>    Johnny

Of course OSX came from FreeBSD, so that is not surprising

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Chris