Add Context cancellation to clock.

common/clock/tags.go

Index: common/clock/tags.go
diff --git a/common/clock/tags.go b/common/clock/tags.go
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+// Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package clock
+
+import (
+	"golang.org/x/net/context"
+)
+
+var clockTagKey = &[]string{"clock-tag"}

[iannucci, 2016/02/11 02:24:04]

so I think this is what I was thinking of:

https://github.com/golang/appengine/blob/54bf9150c922186bfc45a00bf9dfcb91a506...

does that seem ok?

[dnj (Google), 2016/02/11 17:22:37]

OK, done.

[iannucci, 2016/02/12 03:35:35]

OH REALLY!?

+
+// Tag returns a derivative Context with the supplied Tag appended to it.
+//
+// Tag chains can be used by timers to identify themselves.
+func Tag(c context.Context, v string) context.Context {
+	return context.WithValue(c, clockTagKey, append(Tags(c), v))
+}
+
+// Tags returns a copy of the set of tags in the current Context.
+func Tags(c context.Context) []string {
+	if tags, ok := c.Value(clockTagKey).([]string); ok && len(tags) > 0 {
+		tclone := make([]string, len(tags))
+		copy(tclone, tags)
+		return tclone
+	}
+	return nil
+}