Hi! > > The only standard tools that support SIGINFO are sleep, dd and ping, > > (and kill, for obvious reasons) so it's not like there's a vast hole > > in the tooling or something, nor is there a large legacy software base > > just waiting for SIGINFO to appear. So while I very much enjoyed > > figuring out how to make SIGINFO work ... > > As far as I recall, GNU make on *BSD does support SIGINFO (Not a > standard tool, but obviously an established one). > > The developers of strace have expressed interest in SIGINFO support > to print tracer status messages (unfortunately, not on a public list). > Computational software can use this instead of stderr progress spam, if > run in an interactive fashion on a terminal, as it frequently is. There > is a user base, it's just not very vocal on kernel lists. :) And often it would be useful if cp supported this. Yes, this is feature I'd like to see. BR, Pavel --
