diff -urN coreutils-8.11-orig/man/dd.1 coreutils-8.11/man/dd.1
--- coreutils-8.11-orig/man/dd.1	2011-04-14 04:25:09 +0900
+++ coreutils-8.11/man/dd.1	2011-04-15 21:18:22 +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-8.11-orig/src/dd.c coreutils-8.11/src/dd.c
--- coreutils-8.11-orig/src/dd.c	2011-03-26 21:52:57 +0900
+++ coreutils-8.11/src/dd.c	2011-04-15 21:18:22 +0900
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
 /* Status bit masks.  */
 enum
   {
+    STATUS_XFER = 0x80000000,
     STATUS_NOXFER = 01
   };
 
@@ -327,6 +328,7 @@
 /* Status, for status="...".  */
 static struct symbol_value const statuses[] =
 {
+  {"xfer",	STATUS_XFER},
   {"noxfer",	STATUS_NOXFER},
   {"",		0}
 };
@@ -495,7 +497,7 @@
   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\
@@ -571,7 +573,7 @@
 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\
@@ -633,7 +635,7 @@
                        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,