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Go Systems Programming

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Go Systems Programming

Overview of this book

Go is the new systems programming language for Linux and Unix systems. It is also the language in which some of the most prominent cloud-level systems have been written, such as Docker. Where C programmers used to rule, Go programmers are in demand to write highly optimized systems programming code. Created by some of the original designers of C and Unix, Go expands the systems programmers toolkit and adds a mature, clear programming language. Traditional system applications become easier to write since pointers are not relevant and garbage collection has taken away the most problematic area for low-level systems code: memory management. This book opens up the world of high-performance Unix system applications to the beginning Go programmer. It does not get stuck on single systems or even system types, but tries to expand the original teachings from Unix system level programming to all types of servers, the cloud, and the web.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

A better version of wc.go

As we talked about in Chapter 6, File Input and Output, in this chapter, you will learn how to create a version of wc.go that uses goroutines. The name of the new utility will be dWC.go and will be presented in four parts. Note that the current version of dWC.go considers each command-line argument as a file.

The first part of the utility is the following:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "bufio" 
   "fmt" 
   "io" 
   "os" 
   "path/filepath" 
   "regexp" 
   "sync" 
) 

The second part has the following Go code:

func count(filename string) { 
   var err error 
   var numberOfLines int = 0 
   var numberOfCharacters int = 0 
   var numberOfWords int = 0 
 
   f, err := os.Open(filename) 
   if err != nil { 
         fmt.Printf("%s\n", err) 
         return 
   } 
   defer f.Close...