Package Usage: go: gopkg.in/tomb.v1

The tomb package offers a conventional API for clean goroutine termination. A Tomb tracks the lifecycle of a goroutine as alive, dying or dead, and the reason for its death. The zero value of a Tomb assumes that a goroutine is about to be created or already alive. Once Kill or Killf is called with an argument that informs the reason for death, the goroutine is in a dying state and is expected to terminate soon. Right before the goroutine function or method returns, Done must be called to inform that the goroutine is indeed dead and about to stop running. A Tomb exposes Dying and Dead channels. These channels are closed when the Tomb state changes in the respective way. They enable explicit blocking until the state changes, and also to selectively unblock select statements accordingly. When the tomb state changes to dying and there's still logic going on within the goroutine, nested functions and methods may choose to return ErrDying as their error value, as this error won't alter the tomb state if provided to the Kill method. This is a convenient way to follow standard Go practices in the context of a dying tomb. For background and a detailed example, see the following blog post: For a more complex code snippet demonstrating the use of multiple goroutines with a single Tomb, see:
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