Feature request: cancel hanging post-download script in case it hangs.

[Filechaser]

See title :-)

[thezoggy]

i've yet to see anyone report a hung post download.. usually its rar that crapped out. but thats been a thing of a past with switching to multipar... so honestly i dont really see a point of this request. also how do you determine if something is hung or just slow machine/bad hdd? also for the script to fire off.. the d/l has to finish. so right now you cant really do a watchdog style script like you want

[Safihre]

It makes sense this request, sometimes people have a post-processing script that for example calls ffmpeg. Right now you have the option to cancel it though, but it's only triggered when the script write to the console. Since we only check the cancelled-state when we get any output from the script.
@Filechaser You did see the ⬛ button in the Glitter skin? Does this solve your problem?

[fryfrog]

Would it be crazy to just ask people to use the timeout command in their own scripts?

[sanderjo]

Note: what is a reasonable timeout: 1 minute, 5 minutes, or 1 hour (if you run ffmpeg on a slow NAS) ... ?

And SAB waits for a pp script to end, before it starts other scripts / downloads, right? That can be annoying.
Furthermore, maybe a sign of life, is that the pp script is writing to output. Or, more general: how do you know a script is still actively running ... ?