That would work, yes. net/http, for example, has var aLongTimeAgo = time.Unix(1, 0), which is used for cancellation.
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:47 AM <hani...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 10:14:22 AM UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:10 AM Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:53 PM Inada Naoki <songof...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Now()) >> > >> > >> > Did you test that solution? Setting a deadline only affects "future >> Read calls" according to the documentation. It cannot be used to timeout an >> extant read. Which is what I would expect given the available UNIX like >> kernel APIs. So while I have not tested this using a program written in Go >> I would not expect it to work and the equivalent solution definitely does >> not work in other languages I use regularly. >> >> No, this does in fact work in Go. I should have thought of that. The >> docs say, correctly, "SetReadDeadline sets the deadline for future >> Read calls and any currently-blocked Read call." >> >> Ian >> > > Wouldn't something like conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Unix(1,0)) or > SetReadDeadline(time.Unix(0,1)) be better than > conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Now()), as it won't make an unnecessary system > call to get the current time? I'm just trying to make sure I'm not missing > something. > > William > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e619b5d1-7c31-4a7c-9222-500a37ff189a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e619b5d1-7c31-4a7c-9222-500a37ff189a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Andrei Călin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CANnvmN786%2BMEhpR_BHq52qhVd8sz6kFMSBxcnn7aZCvPQXgMiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
