bug#22277: 'dd' - stats are not what expected

[Paul Eggert]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> There were some issues noted with that,
> but IMHO they were lesser than the current issue.

No matter which format we pick, fans of the other format will complain. Instead, 
let's output the information in both formats. I did that with the attached patch.

> We will have to be careful to not corrupt output
> when switching with status=progress (due to possibly shorter status line).

I didn't know about this problem. Could you explain it?

Ah. Is this due to glitches when the size grows from (say) "1023 KiB" to "1.0 
MiB", or is it something else?

0001-dd-summarize-in-human-readable-format-too.patch
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