Re: [ANN] Squashfs tools 4.3 released

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed May 14 2014 - 05:58:37 EST


Hi Phillip,

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Phillip Lougher
<phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Squashfs tools 4.3.

Thanks a lot!

> 8. The file being compressed/uncompressed in Mksquashfs/Unsquashfs is now
> displayed if CTRL-\ (SIGQUIT from keyboard) typed.
>
> 9. The status of the internal queues/caches in Mksquashfs/Unsquashfs is
> now displayed if CTRL-\ (SIGQUIT from keyboard) is typed twice within
> one second. Normally only useful for "power users", but it can be
> used to discover if there's any bottlenecks affecting performance
> (the bottleneck will normally be the compressors/fragment compressors).

Sorry for being a bit later, but I'm wondering if it would be better to use
SIGUSR1 (cfr. dd(1)), instead of modifying the behavior for a standard
signal like SIGQUIT?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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