Bug 130325

Summary:	dd man page incorrect
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	George Toft <george>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description George Toft 2004-08-19 03:19:12 UTC

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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 ï¿½ddï¿½ 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:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-08-19 08:38:28 UTC

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