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Quit Channel

Explore how to effectively stop goroutines in Go using quit channels. Understand signaling techniques, channel behavior, and practical implementation to control concurrency safely and prevent blocking.

Overview of the Quit channel

One goroutine can’t forcibly stop another. A gorou­tine can stop only by returning from its top-level function. We can’t kill a goroutine from outside. We can signal to a goroutine to stop using a channel. For example, suppose our goroutine looks like the following:

ch := make(chan string, 10)
go func(){
    for {
        ch <- do_stuff()
    }
}()

The channel will block once the buffer is full. But we ...