From: Michael Stone Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:12:22 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics. X-Git-Tag: v6.11~184 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1c51585f67d64bae62d5805cc3aac31984fe44d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git 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 --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 148b7d75a3..8415d3d881 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-01-29 Michael Stone + + 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 Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removed diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 0de856089b..40aee6f715 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=$!