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		pornel on Oct 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack I really like Rust's async for its ability to immediately cancel Futures, the entire call stack together, at any await point, without needing cooperation from individual calls.

winternewt on Oct 17, 2023 [–]

How is that possible if e.g. an external SQL server needs to be told that the operation should be canceled?

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