savannah: "Show directory sizes" should be interruptible

[bilboq]

Original: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19325

Submitted by:	Martin Petricek <bilboq>	Submitted on:	Fri 16 Mar 2007 04:02:55 PM UTC
Category:	Core	Severity:	3 - Normal
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	None	Open/Closed:	Open
Release:	current (CVS or snapshot)	Operating System:	GNU/Linux

Original submission:

When I invoke "Show directory sizes" from Command menu, the scanning
 cannot be interrupted. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-break, esc - notgnih work.

This can be especially annoying if you do it in root directory and 
you have mounted some slow network drive, large archive with 
millions of files in thousands of directories or anything else that 
will take ages (hours? days?) to scan. Ultimately, I'll have to 
switch to another terminal and kill mc.

I think the scanning should be interruptible.

Also, it might be nice to show some sort of progress window, telling
 which directory is scanned (a bit similar of the progress window 
showing the file which is now deleted when you delete some large 
directory structure)

[andrew_b]

The status dialog is shown if directory size is calculated. Directory scanning is interruptable now.
Branch 60_show_dir_size_interrupt is created. Parent branch: master. Please, review.

[angel_il]

wow, i wait a long time for this. look good.