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That’s valid in many cases, but the dd example isn’t really fair, because you’re comparing modern GNU to ancient BSD. I don’t know how often macOS pulls from up
by School-Cotton 5y ago
That’s valid in many cases, but the dd example isn’t really fair, because you’re comparing modern GNU to ancient BSD. I don’t know how often macOS pulls from upstream FreeBSD, but I will say that relatively recently I saw a man page in macOS that still referred to ARPANet…
Today’s FreeBSD does support status=progress as can be seen here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/watch-status-of-running-dd-disc-clone.71958/ https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/watch-status-of-running-d...
- p_l 5y agoMacOS only pulls fragments from Free/NetBSD, and in many places it's still OSFMK showing up on the surface, so sometimes you find out that you need to program as if you were on BSD 4.3 Reno still...
- pjmlp 5y agoAnd that is enough to be UNIX (TM).
- chris37879 5y agoAh, I was unaware (but should have assumed) it was an ancient version. Sadly, though, that's the only exposure to BSD I and many others have.