bug#12489: inconsistent output from 'dd' w/rt stats and suppression.

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/22/2012 08:09 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> If I have 'dd' running, and want to see stats, the manpage says I can send it
> a USR1 signal and it will print "I/O statistics to standard error and then resume 
> copying". I see something like:
> 18335302+0 records in 18335302+0 records out 9387674624 bytes
> (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s
>
> The same I/O statistics are displayed at the end of a 'dd' session:
>
> 18335302+0 records in
> 18335302+0 records out
> 9387674624 bytes (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s
>
> The man page says I can use the
> "status=noxfer" to suppress transfer statistics".
>
> But when I use it the number of records transfered into 'dd'
> and out of 'dd' are still displayed. Suppressed is the
> sum of the bytes transferred in and out, and the time+rate.
>
> So... it seems status=noxfer isn't fully suppressing the statistics
> but more accurately only suppresses the summary, time and rate
> stats and not the # records transfered in and out.
>
> Either way... shouldn't it just suppress the whole message,
> or what's the point? What switch would one use to suppress
> all I/O statistics?

I think there was general consensus that the status=noinfo should be applied
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00159.html

I'll look at that this evening.

cheers,
Pádraig.