Worker and Manager implementation of the "may-I-kee-running" protocol.
While running tasks, the Worker will ask the Manager periodically
whether it's still allowed to keep running that task. This allows the
Manager to abort commands on Workers when:
- the Worker should go to another state (typically 'asleep' or
'shutdown'),
- the task changed status from 'active' to something non-runnable
(typically 'canceled' when the job as a whole is canceled).
- the task has been assigned to a different Worker. This can happen when
a Worker loses its connection to its Manager, resulting in a task
timeout (not yet implemented) after which the task can be assigned to
another Worker. If then the connectivity is restored, the first Worker
should abort (last-assigned Worker wins).
