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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
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@@ -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=$! |