On 26/06/21, Ian Lance Taylor (i...@golang.org) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 3:27 PM Rory Campbell-Lange <rory...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to work out why I have a data race problem (on go 1.15 and 1.16). > > > > *SearchResults.Set is called from several goroutines. I am trying to avoid > > concurrent access to its two maps using a mutex, but this isn't working. > > Looks like you have multiple SearchResults values that refer to the same map.
Thanks for the insightful comment -- I was passing SearchResults to the goroutine by value instead of by reference. By the way, as a golang newbie, it isn't clear to me when it is advisable to use a channel for locking as opposed to a mutex. Do people tend to use the former? Thanks again, Rory -- 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/20210627093149.GA5588%40campbell-lange.net.
