Subject: bug#12489: inconsistent output from 'dd' w/rt stats and suppression.

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:32:37 -0700

On 09/22/2012 12:09 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> shouldn't it just suppress the whole message,
> or what's the point?

I think the main point of status=noxfer is to get
GNU dd to behave more like traditional dd does.
Admittedly this should be documented better.