When annex.stalldetection is set, and git-annex transferrer is used, a ctrl-c does not propagate to the transferrer process. The result is that, the next time the process sends a message to its output handle (eg a progress update), it gets a SIGINT, and so an ugly message is output to the console, after the user was returned to the prompt. The SIGINT is not propagated because a child process group is used for git-annex transferrer, in order to let child processes of it be killed along with it when a stall is detected. Maybe what's needed is a SIGINT handler in the main git-annex that signals all the transferrer processes with SIGINT and waits on them exiting. And other signals, eg SIGTSTP for ctrl-z. > Implemented this, but not for windows (yet). But not gonna leave open > for something that on windows in my experience does not work very > reliably in general. (I've many times hit ctrl-c in a windows terminal and > had the whole terminal lock up.) So, [[done]] --[[Joey]] Or, note that it would suffice to remove the child process group stuff, if we assume that all child processes started by git-annex transferrer are talking to a pipe, and will output something, eg a progress update, and so receive a SIGPIPE once the transferrer process has caught the SIGINT and exited. [[todo/stalldetection_does_not_work_for_rsync_and_gcrypt]] would be a prereq for this approach. But, might there be long-running child processes that are not on a pipe, and that need to be shutdown on a stall, too?