# 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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**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stop-terminate-a-sub-task-started-with-async/32193/8 "2019-12-16T15:51:29Z")

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No, there’s no generally safe way to interrupt a task. But you can interrupt any waitable object (by closing it).

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