locker

Documentation

Overview

Package locker provides a mechanism for creating finer-grained locking to help free up more global locks to handle other tasks.

The implementation looks close to a sync.Mutex, however the user must provide a reference to use to refer to the underlying lock when locking and unlocking, and unlock may generate an error.

If a lock with a given name does not exist when `Lock` is called, one is created. Lock references are automatically cleaned up on `Unlock` if nothing else is waiting for the lock.

Index

• Variables
• type Locker
  • func New() *Locker
  • func (l *Locker) Lock(name string)
  • func (l *Locker) Unlock(name string) error

Variables

var ErrNoSuchLock = errors.New("no such lock")

ErrNoSuchLock is returned when the requested lock does not exist

Types

type Locker

type Locker struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Locker provides a locking mechanism based on the passed in reference name

func New

func New() *Locker

New creates a new Locker

func (*Locker) Lock

func (l *Locker) Lock(name string)

Lock locks a mutex with the given name. If it doesn't exist, one is created

func (*Locker) Unlock

func (l *Locker) Unlock(name string) error

Unlock unlocks the mutex with the given name If the given lock is not being waited on by any other callers, it is deleted