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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

Signal channels

A signal channel is a channel that is used just for signaling. Signal channels will be illustrated using the signalChannel.go program with a rather unusual example that will be presented in five parts. The program executes four goroutines: when the first one is finished, it sends a signal to a signal channel by closing it, which will unblock the second goroutine. When the second goroutine finishes its job, it closes another channel that unblocks the remaining two goroutines. Note that signal channels are not the same as channels that carry the os.Signal values.

The first part of the program is the following:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "fmt" 
   "time" 
) 
 
func A(a, b chan struct{}) { 
   <-a 
   fmt.Println("A!") 
   time.Sleep(time.Second) 
   close(b) 
} 

The A() function is blocked by the channel defined in the a parameter...

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