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time: clarify when draining a Timer's channel is needed

Updates https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27169
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Allen Li 2019-07-08 16:29:58 -07:00
parent a19c0ceda5
commit 457b2a61a8

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@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ type Timer struct {
// Stop does not close the channel, to prevent a read from the channel succeeding
// incorrectly.
//
// To prevent a timer created with NewTimer from firing after a call to Stop,
// check the return value and drain the channel.
// To ensure the channel is empty after a call to Stop, check the
// return value and drain the channel.
// For example, assuming the program has not received from t.C already:
//
// if !t.Stop() {
@ -97,10 +97,9 @@ func NewTimer(d Duration) *Timer {
// It returns true if the timer had been active, false if the timer had
// expired or been stopped.
//
// Resetting a timer must take care not to race with the send into t.C
// that happens when the current timer expires.
// Reset should be invoked only on stopped or expired timers with drained channels.
// If a program has already received a value from t.C, the timer is known
// to have expired, and t.Reset can be used directly.
// to have expired and the channel drained, so t.Reset can be used directly.
// If a program has not yet received a value from t.C, however,
// the timer must be stopped and—if Stop reports that the timer expired
// before being stopped—the channel explicitly drained: