Context and defer

[Oluwatobi_Giwa]

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
 defer cancel()
 _, err := m.DB.Exec(ctx, stmt, email, username, password)

If the containing function gets cancelled by the context defer cancel() , what get return to the caller?

defer func(ctx context.CancelFunc) error {
err := errors.New("timeout")
ctx()
}(cancel

or is this my only option?

[skillian (Sean Killian)]

It’s up to the function to decide what to return. Usually it’s context.Canceled or something that wraps context.Canceled.