From af2a4ed22594badd2719c0123441d69b17bd8328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Federico Simoncelli Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:12:32 +0000 Subject: dd: new status=progress level to print stats periodically * src/dd.c: Report the transfer progress every second when the new status=progress level is used. Adjust the handling and description of the status= option so that they're treated as mutually exclusive levels, rather than flags with implicit precedence. * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the new progress status level. Reference the new level in the description of SIGUSR1. * tests/dd/stats.sh: Add new test for status=progress. * tests/dd/misc.sh: Change so status=none only takes precedence if it's the last level specified. * NEWS: Mention the feature. --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3e10ac4e5..1811ae473 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- king directory. The new option is only permitted if the new root directory is the old "/", and therefore is useful with the --group and --userspec options. + dd accepts a new status=progress level to print data transfer statistics + on stderr approximately every second. + ** Changes in behavior chroot changes the current directory to "/" in again - unless the above new -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2