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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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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

About goroutines

A goroutine is the minimum Go entity that can be executed concurrently. Note that the use of the word minimum is very important here because goroutines are not autonomous entities. Goroutines live in threads that live in Unix processes. Putting it simply, processes can be autonomous and exist on their own, whereas both goroutines and threads cannot. So, in order to create a goroutine, you will need to have a process with at least one thread. The good thing is that goroutines are lighter than threads, which are lighter than processes. Everything in Go is executed using goroutines, which makes perfect sense since Go is a concurrent programming language by design. As you have just learned, when a Go program starts its execution, its single goroutine calls the main() function, which starts the actual program execution.

You can define a new goroutine using the go keyword...

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