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:
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