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-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 148b7d75a..8415d3d88 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-01-29 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
+
+ Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics.
+ * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats
+ upon normal termination and upon SIGINT.
+
2008-01-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removed
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 0de856089..40aee6f71 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7559,7 +7559,8 @@ process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error
and then resume copying. In the example below,
@command{dd} is run in the background to copy 10 million blocks.
The @command{kill} command makes it output intermediate I/O statistics,
-and when @command{dd} completes, it outputs the final statistics.
+and when @command{dd} completes normally or is killed by the
+@code{SIGINT} signal, it outputs the final statistics.
@example
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10MB & pid=$!