The following reply was made to PR bin/33207; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33207: progress(1) w/ stdin: useless progress bar
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:46:23 +0200 (CEST)

 Doing some more research, I think this is related to the detection if the 
 progress bar should be printed. My gut feeling tells me this should be the 
 same in both cases:
 
 case 1:
  	wl3403% cat /netbsd | ./obj.i386/progress dd of=/dev/null
  	     0       0.00 KB/s 8117+1 records in
  	8117+1 records out
  	4156040 bytes transferred in 0.218 secs (19064403 bytes/sec)
  	  4058 KB   15.07 MB/s
 
 case 2:
  	wl3403% ./obj.i386/progress </netbsd dd of=/dev/null
  	  0% |                                     |     0       0.00 KB/s    --:-- ETA8117+1 records in
  	8117+1 records out
  	4156040 bytes transferred in 0.159 secs (26138616 bytes/sec)
  	100% |*************************************|  4058 KB   24.24 MB/s    00:00 ETA
 
 
 FWIW, the test is in src/usr.bin/ftp/progress.c's foregroundproc():
 
          static pid_t pgrp = -1;
 
          if (pgrp == -1)
                  pgrp = getpgrp();
 
          return (tcgetpgrp(fileno(ttyout)) == pgrp);
 
 I wonder if the test shouldn't rather see if input is coming from a file 
 or pipe...
 
 
   - Hubert