How to correctly use sync.Cond?

Question

I\'m having trouble figuring out how to correctly use sync.Cond. From what I can tell, a race condition exists between locking the Locker and invoking the condition\'s Wait meth

Answer 1

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "sync"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    m := sync.Mutex{}
    m.Lock() // main gouroutine is owner of lock
    c := sync.NewCond(&m)
    go func() {
        m.Lock() // obtain a lock
        defer m.Unlock()
        fmt.Println("3. goroutine is owner of lock")
        time.Sleep(2 * time.Second) // long computing - because you are the owner, you can change state variable(s)
        c.Broadcast()               // State has been changed, publish it to waiting goroutines
        fmt.Println("4. goroutine will release lock soon (deffered Unlock")
    }()
    fmt.Println("1. main goroutine is owner of lock")
    time.Sleep(1 * time.Second) // initialization
    fmt.Println("2. main goroutine is still lockek")
    c.Wait() // Wait temporarily release a mutex during wating and give opportunity to other goroutines to change the state.
    // Because you don't know, whether this is state, that you are waiting for, is usually called in loop.
    m.Unlock()
    fmt.Println("Done")
}

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