On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:29 PM Peter Kleiweg <pklei...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> From the faq: https://golang.org/doc/faq#atomic_maps
>
>      ... uncontrolled map access can crash the program.
>
> In what situations does this apply?
>
> Can I have two goroutines reading a single map at the same time?
>

Yes.


> Can I have one goroutine putting something in a map while at the same time
> another goroutine is reading the map?
>

This has a risk of crashes or arbitrary data corruption.


> Does it depend on the type of the key or the type of the value?
>

No.

Thomas

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