Timeout using Select Statement
Explore how to implement timeout functionality in Go using the select statement and the time.After function. Understand how to manage channel operations with time limits to prevent blocking, enabling safer concurrent programming patterns.
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In the previous lesson, we learned how to break out of channel operations in the select statement. Now what if we want to break out of channel communications after a certain period of time?
This will be done using the time.After function which is imported from the time package. It returns a channel that blocks the code for the specified duration.
After that duration, the channel delivers the current time ...