Thanks for the info. I will look at the context information. On Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 12:20:11 AM UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 7:02 PM, <natea...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > https://play.golang.org/p/d5n9bYmya3r > > > > I'm new to the go language and trying to figure out how to sigint a > blocking > > goroutine. in the playground code I included an infinite for loop to > > simulate the blocking. In my real world use the for block would be a > long > > running file save from an external device. I appreciate any advice or > > direction that is given. > > I'm not sure quite what you mean, but in general you can not send a > signal to a goroutine in Go. Goroutines are not threads. If you want > a goroutine to be interruptible, you must write the goroutine to check > whether something is trying to interrupt it; the standard library's > "context" package is often used for this purpose. > > Ian >
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