If it helps, you can set deadlines on *os.File now, as of Go 1.10:
https://play.golang.org/p/h3Pg9Ql0CMB
I don't see a way to cancel without deciding the deadline in advance though.
On 15 March 2018 at 08:40, Matt Mueller <mattmue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to cancel reading from stdin programmatically.
> Basically the same way that ctrl+d works on OSX.
>
> I would have thought this would work, but this program will just run
> forever:
>
> package main
>
>
> import (
> "io/ioutil"
> "os"
> "time"
> )
>
>
> func main() {
> go func() {
> time.Sleep(time.Second)
> println("closing...")
> os.Stdin.Close()
> }()
>
> _, _ = ioutil.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
> println("done")
> }
>
>
> Any help would be much appreciated – thanks!
>
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