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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)

Channels of channels

In this section, we will talk about creating and using a channel of channels. Two possible reasons to use such a channel are as follows:

  • For acknowledging that an operation finished its job
  • For creating many worker processes that will be controlled by the same channel variable

The name of the naive program that will be developed in this section is cOfC.go and will be presented in four parts.

The first part of the program is the following:

package main 
 
import ( 
   "fmt" 
) 
 
var numbers = []int{0, -1, 2, 3, -4, 5, 6, -7, 8, 9, 10} 

The second part of the program is the following:

func f1(cc chan chan int, finished chan struct{}) { 
   c := make(chan int) 
   cc <- c 
   defer close(c) 
 
   total := 0 
   i := 0 
   for { 
         select { 
         case c <- numbers[i]: 
               i = i + 1 
               i = i % len(numbers)...