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The Go Programming Language
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The Go Programming Language

by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
October 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
400 pages
14h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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8.10 Example: Chat Server

We’ll finish this chapter with a chat server that lets several users broadcast textual messages to each other. There are four kinds of goroutine in this program. There is one instance apiece of the main and broadcaster goroutines, and for each client connection there is one handleConn and one clientWriter goroutine. The broadcaster is a good illustration of how select is used, since it has to respond to three different kinds of messages.

The job of the main goroutine, shown below, is to listen for and accept incoming network connections from clients. For each one, it creates a new handleConn goroutine, just as in the concurrent echo server we saw at the start of this chapter.

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