.NET Core equivalent to Thread.Abort

Question

Background

I have a Service abstraction. Each service has it own WorkItem. WorkItem able to start with some data. The service is limiting the excution time of WorkItem. Let's say that a single workitem can takes up to 60 seconds. After this, the Service should kill it.

This code migrated from the Standard .NET Framework, I created a Thread object which run the Start(model) method. Then the code was something like:

Thread t = new Thread(workItem.Start, model);
t.start();
if (!t.Join(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60)))
    t.Abort();

The Thread.Abort was injecting an exception for the running thread, which lead it for immediately stop.

Now, I moved the code to dotnet core - as you may know, when you calling Thread.Abort() your getting the following message:

System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Thread abort is not supported on this platform.
   at System.Threading.Thread.Abort()
   at ...

The Goal

I want to limit the execution time of the WorkItem to specific amount of time. Note that this limitation should work also if you running code line like this:

Thread.Sleep(61000); // 61 seconds. should be stop after 60 seconds.

Progress

On the dotnet core world, it's seems like it's going to the Task related solution. So, I thought to use CancellationToken. But its seems like its impossible to watch the "Canceled" event and stop immediately. The examples I saw are using while (!canceled) loops, which cant stop long operations (like Thread.Sleep(1000000).

Question

How to do it right?

Update

I written this sample code:

public static bool ExecuteWithTimeLimit(TimeSpan timeSpan, Action codeBlock)
{
    try
    {
        Task task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => codeBlock());
        if (!task.Wait(timeSpan))
        {
            // ABORT HERE!
            Console.WriteLine("Time exceeded. Aborted!");
        }
        return task.IsCompleted;
    }
    catch (AggregateException ae)
    {
        throw ae.InnerExceptions[0];
    }
}

And this Main file:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    bool Completed = ExecuteWithTimeLimit(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(2000), () =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine("start");
        Thread.Sleep(3000);
        Console.WriteLine("end");
    });

    Console.WriteLine($"Completed={Completed}");
    Console.ReadLine();
}

Expected: "end" wont be printed to the screen. Actual: "end" printed. Is there any alternative that can kill a Task?

Answer 1

Use thread.Interrupt(); instead of Abort method.