Re: [go-nuts] Syscalls inside loops + runtime.KeepAlive

2017-04-05 Thread Caleb Spare
Thanks, Ian. On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Caleb Spare wrote: >> I have a question about this runtime.KeepAlive call: >> >> https://github.com/golang/go/blob/041ecb697f0e867a2bb0bf219cc2fd5f77057c2e/src/os/dir_unix.go#L68 >> >> (There

Re: [go-nuts] Syscalls inside loops + runtime.KeepAlive

2017-03-29 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Caleb Spare wrote: > I have a question about this runtime.KeepAlive call: > > https://github.com/golang/go/blob/041ecb697f0e867a2bb0bf219cc2fd5f77057c2e/src/os/dir_unix.go#L68 > > (There are other examples in the stdlib as well, I think.) > > It seems to me that, s

[go-nuts] Syscalls inside loops + runtime.KeepAlive

2017-03-29 Thread Caleb Spare
I have a question about this runtime.KeepAlive call: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/041ecb697f0e867a2bb0bf219cc2fd5f77057c2e/src/os/dir_unix.go#L68 (There are other examples in the stdlib as well, I think.) It seems to me that, strictly speaking, KeepAlive is unnecessary here since the compil