Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)

Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by stuaxo on Sunday January 08, 2017 @05:22PM (#13352412)

Ctrl-T for SIGINFO is pretty useful, it would be good if Linux could pick this up.

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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by circuit_breaker on Sunday January 08, 2017 @06:05PM (#13352629)

Been waiting for years, frankly. I guess if I was motivated enough and had the time, I could do the research and submit patches..

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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by feld on Sunday January 08, 2017 @07:53PM (#13353181)

They don't want it. Even if you got the patches accepted to the kernel they'd never accept patches to GNU Coreutils to support it.

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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by feld on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:04PM (#13359345)

The most recent comment I've seen on this is lukewarm at best: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.0/03374.html

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