For learning purpose, I'm reading the source code of Golang standard
package: context.
Roughly understand the logics with one confusing point in
the propagateCancel below:
func propagateCancel(parent Context, child canceler) {
done := parent.Done()
if done == nil {
return // parent is never canceled
}
select {
case <-done:
// parent is already canceled
child.cancel(false, parent.Err())
return
default:
}
if p, ok := parentCancelCtx(parent); ok {
p.mu.Lock()
if p.err != nil {
// parent has already been canceled
child.cancel(false, p.err)
} else {
if p.children == nil {
p.children = make(map[canceler]struct{})
}
p.children[child] = struct{}{}
}
p.mu.Unlock()
} else {
atomic.AddInt32(&goroutines, +1)
go func() {
select {
case <-parent.Done():
child.cancel(false, parent.Err())
case <-child.Done():
}
}()
}
}
propagateCancel function is used to bind the new cancel context to its
cancellable ancestor context. The confusing point is this else block:
else {
atomic.AddInt32(&goroutines, +1)
go func() {
select {
case <-parent.Done():
child.cancel(false, parent.Err())
case <-child.Done():
}
}()
}
if parentCancelCtx return false, it means no cancellable ancestors found,
then why do we need run another goroutine to listen for parent's cancel
signals? How it can happen in what kind of cases?
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