How to correctly use sync.Cond?

Question

I\'m having trouble figuring out how to correctly use sync.Cond. From what I can tell, a race condition exists between locking the Locker and invoking the condition\'s Wait meth

Answer 1

OP answered his own, but did not directly answer the original question, I am going to post how to correctly use sync.Cond.

You do not really need sync.Cond if you have one goroutine for each write and read - a single sync.Mutex would suffice to communicate between them. sync.Cond could useful in situations where multiple readers wait for the shared resources to be available.

var sharedRsc = make(map[string]interface{})
func main() {
    var wg sync.WaitGroup
    wg.Add(2)
    m := sync.Mutex{}
    c := sync.NewCond(&m)
    go func() {
        // this go routine wait for changes to the sharedRsc
        c.L.Lock()
        for len(sharedRsc) == 0 {
            c.Wait()
        }
        fmt.Println(sharedRsc["rsc1"])
        c.L.Unlock()
        wg.Done()
    }()

    go func() {
        // this go routine wait for changes to the sharedRsc
        c.L.Lock()
        for len(sharedRsc) == 0 {
            c.Wait()
        }
        fmt.Println(sharedRsc["rsc2"])
        c.L.Unlock()
        wg.Done()
    }()

    // this one writes changes to sharedRsc
    c.L.Lock()
    sharedRsc["rsc1"] = "foo"
    sharedRsc["rsc2"] = "bar"
    c.Broadcast()
    c.L.Unlock()
    wg.Wait()
}

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Having said that, using channels is still the recommended way to pass data around if the situation permitting.

Note: sync.WaitGroup here is only used to wait for the goroutines to complete their executions.