Automatic Task cancellation confusion

[tomassliz]

I’m reading about automatic task cancellation. In the lesson The difference between structured and unstructured tasks, one of the advantages of using a structured task is mentioned as:

Automatic cancellation: If the parent task is canceled, all child tasks are also canceled.

I thought child tasks are only notified of the cancellation and not actually canceled and they have to handle theirs cancellation themselves.

You mentioned this in your May update as well:

Task Cancellation — Updated wording to clarify that child tasks are notified—not forcibly canceled—when their parent task is canceled, reflecting more accurate Swift Concurrency behavior.

This feels a bit confusing.

[AvdLee]

Agreed! I rewrote it again to explicitly mention that it's only about being notified about cancellation, but still requiring methods like try Task.checkCancellation() to respect the cancellation.