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Date:      Sat, 1 Sep 2001 22:36:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Arne Dag Fidjestøl <adf@idi.ntnu.no>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proctitle progress reporting for dump(8) 
Message-ID:  <200109020236.f822ajt99031@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200109012239.AAA00511@zevs.idi.ntnu.no>
References:  <200109012143.f81LhqY96913@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200109012239.AAA00511@zevs.idi.ntnu.no>

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<<On Sun, 02 Sep 2001 00:39:22 +0200, Arne Dag Fidjestøl <adf@idi.ntnu.no> said:

> Could you please clarify your position on this issue?  Is 
> setproctitle() the wrong way to do this, and if so, why?

I don't expect setproctitle() to be useful to me one way or the
other.  SIGINFO, on the other hand, would help keep me from going out
of my mind while sitting at the single-user console waiting for some
filesystem move to finish.  More regular updates would be almost as
good.

-GAWollman


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