Cancellation
Sourced from . Notes
- ✅ Overview: cooperative cancellation; the 90% case; the cancellation contract; exceptions to the “90% case”
- ✅ Requesting Cancellation:
CancellationTokenSource; timeouts; manual cancellation; cancelling and disposing - ✅ Detecting Cancellation: responding to cancellation;
TaskCanceledException;OperationCanceledException.CancellationToken - ✅ Polling: how to poll; how not to poll; when to poll
- ✅ Registration: how to register; a race condition; cleanup is important; synchronous cancellation callbacks
- ✅ Linking: linked cancellation tokens; use cases; don’t use
OperationCanceledException.CancellationToken
References
- Cancellation, Part 1: Overview. Stephen Cleary. blog.stephencleary.com . Accessed Sep 22, 2026.