On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:35 AM Alex Besogonov
<alex.besogo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Inheritable goroutine-locals would actually work just fine in Go. Moreover, 
> Go actually has them in the form of pprof labels.

What should happen if one goroutine changes an inherited
goroutine-local variable?

Ian


> On Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 5:55:50 PM UTC-7 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 5:46 PM Alex Mills <al...@channelmeter.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > There appears to be a way to get a reference on the goroutine id:
>> >
>> > http://blog.sgmansfield.com/2015/12/goroutine-ids/
>>
>> But as you can see by reading that blog article, that is almost a joke.
>>
>> Go considers these things to be better handled explicitly, which is
>> why people are telling you to use a context.Context value. And, yes,
>> you'll want to use a Context aware logging package.
>>
>> In Go it's trivial to create new goroutines, and as soon as you do
>> that any goroutine-local-variable scheme falls apart. So Go has
>> consistently chosen to not provide that capability, and similarly to
>> not provide goroutine IDs. It's an intentional choice by the
>> language. There have been a number of discussions about this in the
>> past on this mailing list.
>>
>> Ian
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