Github user rmetzger commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/750#issuecomment-139194317
> The cancel only sets an internal variable.
That is probably true for all sources that Flink provides.
But the interface for sources is a public API, and trusting that users are
implementing this properly is dangerous. It can basically lock the entire Flink
cluster.
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