Re: Why no SIGINFO?

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 1/4/12 5:27 PM, Daniel Loffgren wrote:
>> To me, it would be more useful to add SIGINFO support to cvs. cp
>> is normally fast enough to not need a progress report.
> 
> It is intended for large files, slow systems, large quantities of files, etc.
> I quite often move large disk images (4GB - 100GB each) across raids
> and just leave the mv / cp / etc operations running in a screen that I
> am watching, but without progress, it can be quite boring and
> uninformative (should there be a bottleneck of some sort.) I know dd
> can provide this, but not for multiple files and trees.
> 
> What part of cvs are you referring to? From my experience cvs is
> relatively verbose in what it is doing, (when compared to something
> like cp.)

The "prune" bit after a checkout or update is particularly slow and
completely silent during normal operation.  I think it'd be useful at
that point.

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Julio Merino / @jmmv