diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'results/scraper/launchpad/1662468')
| -rw-r--r-- | results/scraper/launchpad/1662468 | 60 |
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/results/scraper/launchpad/1662468 b/results/scraper/launchpad/1662468 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7ee5b4b --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/launchpad/1662468 @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +[feature request] qemu-img convert should respond to control-T like dd + +Since qemu-img convert is a long-running operation, it would be nice if it reported progress in response to control-T (SIGINFO) to show progress information, much like dd, fsck, dump, cp, etc. + +That should be simple enough to implement considering we have this behavior already on SIGUSR1. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to test it because Linux apparently doesn't implement SIGINFO... + +Max + + +PS: By the way, thanks for the information. I didn't know about SIGINFO at all. Well, now I have mapped Ctrl-T to SIGUSR1 in my terminal emulator so I don't have to feel quite as inferior... + +On 02/08/17 00:22, Max Reitz wrote: +> That should be simple enough to implement considering we have this +> behavior already on SIGUSR1. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to test +> it because Linux apparently doesn't implement SIGINFO... +> +> Max +> +> +> PS: By the way, thanks for the information. I didn't know about SIGINFO at all. Well, now I have mapped Ctrl-T to SIGUSR1 in my terminal emulator so I don't have to feel quite as inferior... +> + +By that you may have lost the following Readline action: + + transpose-chars (C-t) + Drag the character before point forward over the charac- + ter at point, moving point forward as well. If point is + at the end of the line, then this transposes the two + characters before point. Negative arguments have no + effect. + +I'm sure you've been using that all the time... ;) + +Laszlo + + +On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 11:22:26PM -0000, Max Reitz wrote: +> That should be simple enough to implement considering we have this +> behavior already on SIGUSR1. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to test +> it because Linux apparently doesn't implement SIGINFO... +> +> Max +> +> +> PS: By the way, thanks for the information. I didn't know about SIGINFO at all. Well, now I have mapped Ctrl-T to SIGUSR1 in my terminal emulator so I don't have to feel quite as inferior... + +Christophe: In case you hadn't seen what Max is referring to on the +qemu-img man page: + + -p display progress bar (compare, convert and rebase commands + only). If the -p option is not used for a command that supports + it, the progress is reported when the process receives a + "SIGUSR1" signal. + +Does this do what you want? + + +Fix has been included in v2.10.0: +https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=262fbae692722d5c8b + |