```val jobA = Job() val jobB = GlobalScope.launch(...

# coroutines

[Simon Lin]

val jobA = Job()
val jobB = GlobalScope.launch(jobA) {
    delay(1000L)
    println("World!")
}

What is the different between jobA and jobB?
If I would like to cancel the Job, which one need to be called? jobA.cancel() or jobB.cancel() ?
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[Lukas Lechner]

jobA is parent of jobB

[Lukas Lechner]

cancelling JobA cancels all of its children jobs

[Lukas Lechner]

cancelling jobB only cancels itself

[Simon Lin]

I got it. Thank you.

[Andrea Giuliano]

wouldn’t jobB cancel also jobA since is its child?

[Lukas Lechner]

this would be the case if jobB fails, but only calling .cancel() on it has no effect to the parent

[Andrea Giuliano]

perfect, that’s what I meant, terminating exceptionally would kill also jobA

[streetsofboston]

If a child job ends abnormally, either through cancellation or through an exception, its parent is cancelled (if the parent is not a SupervisorJob). The cancelling of the parent job then will cause the sibling jobs to be cancelled as well.

The difference between plain cancellation (through a CancellationException or a sub-class of it) and an error-termination (any other exception) is that the CoroutineExceptionHandler is not called on a plain cancellation.