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You're reading from Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125643

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Programming

Author (1):

Mihalis Tsoukalos

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER

2. Writing Programs in Go

3. Advanced Go Features

4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures

5. Files and Directories

6. File Input and Output

7. Working with System Files

8. Processes and Signals

9. Goroutines - Basic Features

10. Goroutines - Advanced Features

11. Writing Web Applications in Go

12. Network Programming

The sync Go package

Once again, we will use functions and data types from the sync package in this chapter. Particularly, you will learn about the usefulness of the sync.Mutex and sync.RWMutex types and the functions supporting them.

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