From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21468C433EF for ; Thu, 19 May 2022 12:28:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=rII+dRDWvEE7lZiOT0btANztJVWCHAdtEFGEUoO4sUQ=; b=h+LnF69yUxXqUI UHVdyVg036zbZMc6I7icjPqJIlEQNt7R6Lpch0pL6FLL75V3R4GhAnR2pwQI366unmo+xydKXf4yc dSMy/mzk0eX9GfVjnZaYH/BwoGsQsjOQhl7695ZJHJRufyDY+Z71YADn8XCiFj3wVamnX4eJobJ34 QIk812Okot2puQU6MzusceInTm6wyie0eQDGxRJeDO7vOaQxnUyS9cCnXOWH3in/AnvPhIbDEevdE LndOjRpo0+tTsKo1P+OLGXF+3Rc5QxN4vHC+hVckf1mCPYnZ+EdZf5ZgZwg6z6ZQ4q0Vi5qtCyL+x V1vFzftAuALoK0AHozvA==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nrfGD-006fW4-V6; Thu, 19 May 2022 12:28:09 +0000 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nrfG9-006fTd-L5 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 12:28:07 +0000 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id 20D5C1C0B92; Thu, 19 May 2022 14:27:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 14:27:46 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Arseny Maslennikov Cc: Walt Drummond , Theodore Ts'o , "Eric W. Biederman" , aacraid@microsemi.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, anna.schumaker@netapp.com, arnd@arndb.de, bsegall@google.com, bp@alien8.de, chuck.lever@oracle.com, bristot@redhat.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, dinguyen@kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, idryomov@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, yzaikin@google.com, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, jejb@linux.ibm.com, jmorris@namei.org, bfields@fieldses.org, jlayton@kernel.org, jirislaby@kernel.org, john.johansen@canonical.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com, keescook@chromium.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, martin.petersen@oracle.com, mattst88@gmail.com, mgorman@suse.de, oleg@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, rth@twiddle.net, richard@nod.at, serge@hallyn.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de, trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] signals: Support more than 64 signals Message-ID: <20220519122746.GA3904@localhost> References: <20220103181956.983342-1-walt@drummond.us> <87iluzidod.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> <87pmp79mxl.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20220519_052805_867776_3BA27BCB X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 14.51 ) X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org 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 -- ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/