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.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 148b7d75a36b7dd386f1eed8612563ee622e2485..8415d3d881eadc6722bc35d47c62226d377fbd15 100644 (file)
--- 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 0de856089b2c7062a210e8dae26c95e39029123e..40aee6f7151111ec5399e046b3dc37a67226d101 100644 (file)
--- 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=$!