Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand...
by zbentley on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:26PM
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stat() cannot (on platforms I am familiar with) be performed in a selectish/nonblocking way. That call can block forever. Local filesystem access in general is still not async-capable in very important ways.
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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand...
by toast0 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:00AM
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Yes, filesystem calls are going to block -- but putting that into a limited threadpool shouldn't deadlock your system -- you can't do a blocking read on a file, waiting for it to be filled by another thread (unless/until you start playing with FUSE, I guess.