svn commit: r337505 - head/bin/dd

[Kyle Evans]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 7:01 PM, Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 14:37, Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >> +/* ARGSUSED */
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>> > We've been slowly delintifying system utilities. Why do we still keep
>> > these comments?
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>> This is consistent with the style of the file, so I didn't object.
>> I'd rather do another pass later to de-lintify the whole thing rather
>> than nitpick at this patch for some otherwise harmless and matching
>> comments. =)
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> It appears to be from NetBSD upstream, so removing it would be pointless
> churn that makes things harder to merge.
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Poking at NetBSD now that I have time, it doesn't look like they
actually have this feature. They have progress=<n> to output a dog
every n blocks, but apparently not one that actually does a
single-line summary every second like this and GNU dd (with the same
status=progress flag).