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Only if you've enabled it. If you've not, the process will terminate unceremoniously (in a mechanism borne entirely out of hatred for users.) This is my favour
by DHowett 13y ago
Only if you've enabled it. If you've not, the process will terminate unceremoniously (in a mechanism borne entirely out of hatred for users.)
This is my favourite part of dd: The "will I receive a status report or will I terminate my long-running copy?" gamble.
- jsight 13y agoIs that a BSD thing? I've never had to enable it on Linux to avoid killing the process.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoMe neither, on debian.