bug#51482: dd with status=progress does not update its output when the main writing is finished

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/29/21 07:22, Sworddragon wrote:

> When dd is being used with status=progress it appears to update the status
> every second but does not do a final update when dd finished its main
> writing task (e.g. when dd starts flushing via conv=fsync and it still
> blocks for like over a minute) causing the output to be incorrect and
> inconsistent across multiple tries.

Thanks for mentioning that. I installed the attached to implement your 
suggestion, and am boldly closing the bug report. Please give it a try 
when you have the chance.

0001-dd-output-final-progress-before-syncing.patch
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