> in which case it's ignored Ignored by the application, sure. But FreeBSD always prints useful stuff like load, current command, its pid and state: $ dd if=/

> in which case it's ignored Ignored by the application, sure. But FreeBSD always prints useful stuff like load, current command, its pid and state: $ dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null load: 0.72 cmd: dd 5820 [running] 0.70r 0.02u 0.68s 6% 2008k 263276+0 records in 263276+0 records out 134797312 bytes transferred in 0.708372 secs (190291809 bytes/sec) (here, the "load:..." line is from the system, and the other 3 lines are from dd)