pv/docs/TODO.md

Things still to do. (#n) indicates the issue tracker number.

• (#3) Option ("-x"?) to use xterm title line for status (Joachim Haga)
• (#4) Option for process title (Martin Sarsale) as "pv - name:FooProcess -xyz - transferred: 1.3GB - 500KB/s - running: 10:15:30s"
• (#6) Look at effect of O_SYNC or fsync on performance; update counters during buffer flush
• (#9) Option to switch rate to per minute if really slow
• (#10) Add watchfd tests
• (#11) Option "--progress-from FILE", read last number and use it as bytes read (Jacek Wielemborek)
• (#12) Allow multiple "-d" options (Linus Heckemann for multiple PID:FD; Jacek Wielemborek)
• (#15) Use Unicode for more granular progress bar (Alexander Petrossian)
• (#17) Allow "-r" with "-l" and "-n" to output lines/sec (Roland Kletzing)
• (#22) Options to skip input and seek on output (Jason A. Pfeil, Feb 2022)
• (#25) Normalise progress to 100% on overrun (Andrej Gantvorg)
• (#34) Continue timer even if input or output is blocking (Martin Probst - Jun 2017)
• (#35) Allow decimal values for "-s", "-L", "-B" (Thomas Watson - Aug 2020)
• (#38) Reset ETA on SIGUSR1 (Jacek Wielemborek - Jan 2019)
• (#40) Permit "-c" with "-d PID:FD", reject "-N" with "-d PID" (Norman Rasmussen - Nov 2020)
• (#43) Differentiate between "--eta" and "--fineta" in display (André Stapf - Apr 2017)
• (#45) Option "--sparse" (with block size option) to write sparse output (Andriy Galetski - Apr 2019)
• (#46) Option to show speed gauge (% max speed) if progress not known (Ryan Cooley - Jun 2019)
• (#47) Analyse splice and buffer usage to improve performance
• (#48) Option to show multiple files with individual sizes and a cumulative total (Zach Riggle - Jul 2021)
• (#49) Option to provide stats for avg/min/max/stddev throughput (Venky.N.Iyer)
• (#50) Allow pv to report on a whole pipeline at once (Will Entriken - Feb 2011)
• (#54) Run command every n percent (haarp)
• (#56) Support for backgrounding pv, and allowing it to be monitored separately (jimbobmcgee)
• (#67) Wrap another process to monitor its stdin & stdout (Alex Mason)
• (#76) Provide a way to test translations without installing

Any assistance would be appreciated.