diff -urN ../coreutils-6.10-orig/src/dd.c src/dd.c
--- ../coreutils-6.10-orig/src/dd.c	2007-12-06 22:22:42 +0900
+++ src/dd.c	2008-04-13 20:45:24 +0900
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 /* Status bit masks.  */
 enum
   {
+    STATUS_XFER = 0x80000000,
     STATUS_NOXFER = 01
   };
 
@@ -276,6 +277,7 @@
 /* Status, for status="...".  */
 static struct symbol_value const statuses[] =
 {
+  {"xfer",	STATUS_XFER},
   {"noxfer",	STATUS_NOXFER},
   {"",		0}
 };
@@ -421,7 +423,7 @@
   oflag=FLAGS     write as per the comma separated symbol list\n\
   seek=BLOCKS     skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output\n\
   skip=BLOCKS     skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input\n\
-  status=noxfer   suppress transfer statistics\n\
+  status=xfer     display transfer statistics when finished\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
 \n\
@@ -491,7 +493,7 @@
 Sending a %s signal to a running `dd' process makes it\n\
 print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.\n\
 \n\
-  $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!\n\
+  $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null status=xfer& pid=$!\n\
   $ kill -%s $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid\n\
   18335302+0 records in\n\
   18335302+0 records out\n\
@@ -553,7 +555,7 @@
 		       select_plural (r_truncate)),
 	     r_truncate);
 
-  if (status_flags & STATUS_NOXFER)
+  if (!(status_flags & STATUS_XFER))
     return;
 
   /* Use integer arithmetic to compute the transfer rate,
diff -urN ../coreutils-6.10-orig/man/dd.1 man/dd.1
--- ../coreutils-6.10-orig/man/dd.1	2008-01-13 18:24:02 +0900
+++ man/dd.1	2008-04-13 20:45:24 +0900
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@
 skip=BLOCKS
 skip BLOCKS ibs\-sized blocks at start of input
 .TP
-status=noxfer
-suppress transfer statistics
+status=xfer
+display transfer statistics when finished
 .PP
 BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
 xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024,