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Experiments with parallel read/write in Go without file.Sync or file.Close
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package main | |
// parallel_rw.go experiments with parallel read/write from a file without | |
// syncing (aka flushing) or closing. | |
import ( | |
"encoding/binary" | |
"fmt" | |
// "math/rand" | |
"os" | |
"runtime" | |
// "time" | |
) | |
var MAX uint32 = 1000 | |
func main() { | |
runtime.GOMAXPROCS(4) | |
file, err := os.Create("log") | |
if err != nil { | |
panic(err) | |
} | |
file.Close() | |
done := make(chan interface{}) | |
go read(done) | |
go write() | |
<-done | |
} | |
// read reads 0..MAX integers from the log file. | |
func read(done chan<- interface{}) { | |
file, err := os.OpenFile("log", os.O_RDONLY, 0666) | |
if nil != err { | |
panic(err) | |
} | |
var i uint32 | |
for i = 0; i < MAX; i = i { | |
var n uint32 | |
err := binary.Read(file, binary.LittleEndian, &n) | |
if nil != err { | |
fmt.Println("\t\t\t\t\t\tError: ", err.Error()) | |
continue | |
} | |
fmt.Println("Read ", n) | |
if i != n { | |
fmt.Printf("Corrupted data: expected %d, was %d\n", i, n) | |
os.Exit(1) | |
} | |
i++ | |
} | |
done <- nil | |
} | |
// write writes 0..MAX integers into the log file. | |
func write() { | |
file, err := os.OpenFile("log", os.O_WRONLY, 0666) | |
if nil != err { | |
panic(err) | |
} | |
var i uint32 | |
for i = 0; i < MAX; i++ { | |
if err := binary.Write(file, binary.LittleEndian, i); nil != err { | |
panic(err) | |
} | |
// time.Sleep(time.Duration(rand.Intn(1000)) * time.Millisecond) | |
fmt.Println("\t\t\tWrite ", i) | |
} | |
} |
With MAX
set to 10
, the output of a particular run looks like:
Error: EOF
Write 0
Read 0
Read 1
Write 1
Error: EOF
Write 2
Read 2
Write 3
Read 3
Write 4
Read 4
Write 5
Read 5
Write 6
Read 6
Write 7
Read 7
Write 8
Read 8
Write 9
Read 9
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Execute this with:
Writes and Reads occur in parallel, but if
Read
is called without any new data,io.EOF
is returned. If no data is written for a long time, it becomes a spin loop.