Hands-On System Programming with Go

Chapter 12

1. What's a race condition? A race condition is a situation where an application tries to execute two operations on the same resource at the same time, and the nature of the resource only allows one operation at time.
2. What happens when you try to execute read and write operations concurrently with a map? When reading and writing operations on a map happen simultaneously, this causes a runtime error: concurrent map writes.
3. What's the difference between Mutex and RWMutex? A regular mutex allows a resource to be locked and unlocked, and each operation has the same priority. A read/write mutex has two types of locks, one for each operation (read/write). The read lock allows more than one operation at time, while it is exclusive. Write ...