gobyexample/examples/waiting-for-goroutines-to-finish/waiting-for-goroutines-to-finish.go
Eli Bendersky 6ab81bdf71 Add "Waiting For Goroutines To Finish" example.
Also link to it from the Channel Synchronization example
2019-05-29 06:01:58 -07:00

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// To wait for multiple goroutines to finish, we can
// use a sync.WaitGroup.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"sync"
"time"
)
// This is the function we'll run in every goroutine.
// wg is the WaitGroup it uses to notify that it's done.
// Note that a WaitGroup must be passed to functions by
// pointer.
func worker(id int, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
fmt.Printf("Worker %d starting\n", id)
// Sleep for a random duration between 500-700 ms
// to simulate work. See the [random numbers](random-numbers)
// example for more details on *rand*.
msToSleep := time.Duration(500 + rand.Intn(200))
time.Sleep(msToSleep * time.Millisecond)
fmt.Printf("Worker %d done\n", id)
// Notify the WaitGroup that we're done.
wg.Done()
}
func main() {
// This WaitGroup is used to wait for all the
// goroutines launched here to finish.
var wg sync.WaitGroup
// Launch several goroutines and increment the WorkGroup
// counter for each.
for i := 1; i <= 5; i++ {
wg.Add(1)
go worker(i, &wg)
}
// Block until the WorkGroup counter goes back to 0;
// all the workers notified they're done.
wg.Wait()
}