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Red Hat Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | dd man page incorrect | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | George Toft <george> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-08-19 04:38:28 EDT | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Works fine for me. coreutils-5.2.1-22. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null 1096548+0 records in <-- first USR1 1096548+0 records out 1620336+0 records in <-- second USR1 1620336+0 records out 2056723+0 records in <-- third USR1 2056722+0 records out 2208940+0 records in <-- Ctrl-C 2208939+0 records out |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625 Description of problem: dd man page states: Note that sending a SIGUSR1 signal to a running �dd� process makes it print to standard error the number of records read and written so far, then to resume copying. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid kill -USR1 $pid causes dd to terminate. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.2.1-17 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open 2 xterms as root 2. in window1: dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sdb3 3. in window2: ps -ef | grep dd 4. Collect pid of dd (it was 3007 in my case) 5. kill -USR1 3007; sleep 1; kill 3007 6. in window1: 583937+0 records in 583936+0 records out Terminated Actual Results: see above Expected Results: See man page Additional info: