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Can someone explain me why the second child is not cancelled?
```	coroutineScope {
		launch {
			if (condition) cancel() // does not cancel the coroutine of flow
		}
		
		launch {
			dataSource.channel.receiveAsFlow() {
				.collect { doSomething() }
		}
	}```
I would expect that cancelling first coroutine would cancel second coroutine but it doesn't. Any ideas?

It'd if it crashed (i.e. you throw a non `CancellationException`), but I guess what you're looking for here is doing `this@coroutineScope.cancel()`.

The reason is that `launch` will create a new `CoroutineScope` for the job which is different from the outer scope. You are canceling the inner scope so it won't affect other jobs in the outer scope.

<@U01JTGH1UMD> hmm but `coroutineScope` states: "When any child coroutine in this scope fails, this scope fails and all the rest of the children are cancelled". My example macthes this statement exactly, not?

<@UHC7RPRTN> "fails" means throwing exception other than `CancellationException`.