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Go Systems Programming

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

A concurrent TCP server

In this section, you will learn how to develop a concurrent TCP server: each client connection will be assigned to a new goroutine that will serve the client request. Note that although TCP clients initially connect to the same port, they are served using a different port number than the main port number of the server: this is automatically handled by TCP and is the way TCP works.

Although creating a concurrent UDP server is also a possibility, it might not be absolutely necessary due to the way UDP works. However, if you have a really busy UDP service, then you might consider developing a concurrent UDP server.

The name of the program will be concTCP.go and will be presented in five parts. The good thing is that once you define a function to handle incoming connections, all you need is to execute that function as a goroutine, and the rest will be handled...

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