# Stop/terminate a (sub)task started with @async

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stop-terminate-a-sub-task-started-with-async/32193>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, task\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stop-terminate-a-sub-task-started-with-async/32193 "2019-12-12T12:29:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jameson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jameson/32/23_2.png) [@jameson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jameson)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stop-terminate-a-sub-task-started-with-async/32193/10 "2019-12-16T16:16:21Z")

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That’s true, it lacks a mention that only the owning queue responsible for managing that task should call that method (and calling that method transfers ownership to a new queue)

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