Cancellation token in Task constructor: why?
Certain System.Threading.Tasks.Task constructors take a CancellationToken as a parameter: CancellationTokenSource source = new CancellationTokenSource(); Task t = new Task (/* method */, source.Token); What baffles me about this is that there is no way from inside the method body to actually get at the token passed in (e.g., nothing like Task.CurrentTask.CancellationToken). The token has to … Read more
