Make MC interruptible

[mc-butler]

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This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4043
Reporter	birdie (aros@….com)

There are many operations which may never complete:

• file copying/moving in case the source file is unreadable
• file viewing (just for fun try opening /proc/PID/pagemap on a PC with a lot of RAM)
• file saving in case the destination media is faulty
• searching for files

etc. etc. etc.

It would be great if MC had a timer for all the operations and allowed to terminate them in case they take too much time or do very little over time.

[mc-butler]

Changed by ossi (@ossilator) on Dec 10, 2019 at 9:49 UTC (comment 1)

"interruptible" would mean _always_ responding to ctrl-c (or esc, but that might be a lot harder to implement), and i'd be all for it.

a watchdog, however, is a completely different beast, and i'm not convinced it really fits into an application like mc.

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Apr 7, 2022 at 7:21 UTC (comment 2)

• Component changed from mc-core to mc-vfs