A Fair, Cancelable Semaphore in Go
Read OriginalThis technical article details the author's experience implementing a semaphore in Go from scratch, focusing on adding fairness (FIFO ordering) and context cancellation support. It explains the limitations of simple channel-based limiters, discusses concurrency bugs, and demonstrates a solution using a queue for ordered resource access and proper cancellation handling.
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