diff -urN coreutils-7.6-orig/man/dd.1 coreutils-7.6/man/dd.1
--- coreutils-7.6-orig/man/dd.1	2009-09-11 03:33:33 +0900
+++ coreutils-7.6/man/dd.1	2009-09-25 13:59:19 +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:
 c =1, w =2, b =512, kB =1000, K =1024, MB =1000*1000, M =1024*1024, xM =M
diff -urN coreutils-7.6-orig/src/dd.c coreutils-7.6/src/dd.c
--- coreutils-7.6-orig/src/dd.c	2009-09-11 03:29:04 +0900
+++ coreutils-7.6/src/dd.c	2009-09-25 13:59:19 +0900
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@
 /* Status bit masks.  */
 enum
   {
+    STATUS_XFER = 0x80000000,
     STATUS_NOXFER = 01
   };
 
@@ -319,6 +320,7 @@
 /* Status, for status="...".  */
 static struct symbol_value const statuses[] =
 {
+  {"xfer",	STATUS_XFER},
   {"noxfer",	STATUS_NOXFER},
   {"",		0}
 };
@@ -487,7 +489,7 @@
   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\
@@ -561,7 +563,7 @@
 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\
@@ -623,7 +625,7 @@
                        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,