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I have a function that will get called within a goroutine that pushes onto a buffered channel. When my container shuts down, I close the channel and attempt to process the rest of the jobs in the buffered channel and in doing so, I do a atomic.StoreInt32(&r.done, 1). In the function that pushes onto the channel, I have



if atomic.LoadInt32(&r.done) == 1 {
return nil
}

... add job to channel


This is used as a blocker if the channel is closed (performing shutdown) and the function that adds to the queue gets called.



Since there is concurrency involved, I have to use the atomic get/set rather than just setting a simple done boolean to true right?



Does this make sense and is this the proper way to do something like this?



Thank you.










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    No, atomic operations do not guarantee synchronization. There's probably other patterns for what you want to do, but we would need some Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example demonstrating why the sender can't be responsible for closing the channel, or why the channel needs to be closed at all.

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I have a function that will get called within a goroutine that pushes onto a buffered channel. When my container shuts down, I close the channel and attempt to process the rest of the jobs in the buffered channel and in doing so, I do a atomic.StoreInt32(&r.done, 1). In the function that pushes onto the channel, I have



if atomic.LoadInt32(&r.done) == 1 {
return nil
}

... add job to channel


This is used as a blocker if the channel is closed (performing shutdown) and the function that adds to the queue gets called.



Since there is concurrency involved, I have to use the atomic get/set rather than just setting a simple done boolean to true right?



Does this make sense and is this the proper way to do something like this?



Thank you.










share|improve this question


















  • 1





    No, atomic operations do not guarantee synchronization. There's probably other patterns for what you want to do, but we would need some Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example demonstrating why the sender can't be responsible for closing the channel, or why the channel needs to be closed at all.

    – JimB
    Nov 20 '18 at 22:52














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I have a function that will get called within a goroutine that pushes onto a buffered channel. When my container shuts down, I close the channel and attempt to process the rest of the jobs in the buffered channel and in doing so, I do a atomic.StoreInt32(&r.done, 1). In the function that pushes onto the channel, I have



if atomic.LoadInt32(&r.done) == 1 {
return nil
}

... add job to channel


This is used as a blocker if the channel is closed (performing shutdown) and the function that adds to the queue gets called.



Since there is concurrency involved, I have to use the atomic get/set rather than just setting a simple done boolean to true right?



Does this make sense and is this the proper way to do something like this?



Thank you.










share|improve this question














I have a function that will get called within a goroutine that pushes onto a buffered channel. When my container shuts down, I close the channel and attempt to process the rest of the jobs in the buffered channel and in doing so, I do a atomic.StoreInt32(&r.done, 1). In the function that pushes onto the channel, I have



if atomic.LoadInt32(&r.done) == 1 {
return nil
}

... add job to channel


This is used as a blocker if the channel is closed (performing shutdown) and the function that adds to the queue gets called.



Since there is concurrency involved, I have to use the atomic get/set rather than just setting a simple done boolean to true right?



Does this make sense and is this the proper way to do something like this?



Thank you.







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    No, atomic operations do not guarantee synchronization. There's probably other patterns for what you want to do, but we would need some Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example demonstrating why the sender can't be responsible for closing the channel, or why the channel needs to be closed at all.

    – JimB
    Nov 20 '18 at 22:52














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    No, atomic operations do not guarantee synchronization. There's probably other patterns for what you want to do, but we would need some Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example demonstrating why the sender can't be responsible for closing the channel, or why the channel needs to be closed at all.

    – JimB
    Nov 20 '18 at 22:52








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No, atomic operations do not guarantee synchronization. There's probably other patterns for what you want to do, but we would need some Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example demonstrating why the sender can't be responsible for closing the channel, or why the channel needs to be closed at all.

– JimB
Nov 20 '18 at 22:52





No, atomic operations do not guarantee synchronization. There's probably other patterns for what you want to do, but we would need some Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example demonstrating why the sender can't be responsible for closing the channel, or why the channel needs to be closed at all.

– JimB
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