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@ -19,4 +19,12 @@ be disabled for those.
Hmm, a password prompt for eg ssh can also "stall" Hmm, a password prompt for eg ssh can also "stall"
a transfer for a long time. Perhaps the thing to do is wait until a transfer for a long time. Perhaps the thing to do is wait until
the meter gets updated once, and only then start the stall detector. the meter gets updated once, and only then start the stall detector.
But what would the stall detector do when it does detect a stalled
transfer? It should perhaps cancel the transfer action, but I don't know
how to do that; the transfer action may have eg run a process, which would
need to be canceled, or it may have a network connection open. Simply
killing the transfer thread won't stop a process that it started.
And when an external special remote is performing the transfer, there's
nothing in that protocol to cancel a transfer.
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