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		staticshock on July 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Tricks Indeed, looks like GNU coreutils dd responds to SIGUSR1 on linux and SIGINFO on linux. That's good to know. What's the reason for this discrepancy?

dankm on July 4, 2014 [–]

OSX inherited SIGINFO from the BSDs, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Dragonfly, and NetBSD all have it.

Linux doesn't. I don't know why; but Google in the past has told me that patches to add it were rejected about 10 years ago.

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