On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 06:07:23PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > As someone else mentioned you would use pkill on OpenBSD. > > However, you will also need to use SIGINFO, not SIGUSR1, to get > dd's status. BSD systems have traditionally used SIGINFO for this > purpose. Linux lacks SIGINFO so there is no consistent signal for > this kind of a thing there. > > - todd
... and do not send random signals to all processes. Find some way to target the right signal to the right process. For example from a shell script starting a dd background process use kill $! which will send a signal to the most recent background command. -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
