Hi, As Paul Eggert said, we could display really readable stats for dd while still using the mechanism of SIGUSR1 :
>in the normal case where bytes-read equals bytes-written (in this >case, 2.7 GB) and there are no partial blocks. The less common cases >could use more-unusual formats, e.g.: > > 2.7G copied (1 partial record) > 2.7G copied (3 partial input records, 1 partial output record) > 2.7G read (5 partial records), 2.8G written > 2.7G read (5 partial records), 2.8G written (3 partial records) > >This would be more readable and understandable, which I think is >largely the point here. Jim meyering proposed a conv=human option and a display-block-size='block-size-todeal-with' option. I think we could merge the two options (and forgot the confusing display-block-size='block-size-todeal-with') and add this feature to a new human option (that will act as conv) : --human='block-size-todeal-with' What do you think about this idea ? I can understand that the 'dd' has to be light weighted but in some cases, having a simple way to know how much of data has been processed is important. Regards, Olivier Delhomme. -- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
