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@@ -474,8 +474,8 @@ assigned to a variable.
<p>
<h2>An I/O Package</h2>
<p>
-Next we'll look at a simple package for doing file I/O with the usual
-sort of open/close/read/write interface. Here's the start of <code>file.go</code>:
+Next we'll look at a simple package for doing file I/O with an
+open/close/read/write interface. Here's the start of <code>file.go</code>:
<p>
<pre> <!-- progs/file.go /package/ /^}/ -->
05 package file
@@ -554,10 +554,10 @@ We can use the factory to construct some familiar, exported variables of type <c
</pre>
<p>
The <code>newFile</code> function was not exported because it's internal. The proper,
-exported factory to use is <code>Open</code>:
+exported factory to use is <code>OpenFile</code> (we'll explain that name in a moment):
<p>
-<pre> <!-- progs/file.go /func.Open/ /^}/ -->
-30 func Open(name string, mode int, perm uint32) (file *File, err os.Error) {
+<pre> <!-- progs/file.go /func.OpenFile/ /^}/ -->
+30 func OpenFile(name string, mode int, perm uint32) (file *File, err os.Error) {
31 r, e := syscall.Open(name, mode, perm)
32 if e != 0 {
33 err = os.Errno(e)
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ exported factory to use is <code>Open</code>:
36 }
</pre>
<p>
-There are a number of new things in these few lines. First, <code>Open</code> returns
+There are a number of new things in these few lines. First, <code>OpenFile</code> returns
multiple values, a <code>File</code> and an error (more about errors in a moment).
We declare the
multi-value return as a parenthesized list of declarations; syntactically
@@ -585,6 +585,35 @@ consistent error handling throughout Go code. In <code>Open</code> we use a
conversion to translate Unix's integer <code>errno</code> value into the integer type
<code>os.Errno</code>, which implements <code>os.Error</code>.
<p>
+Why <code>OpenFile</code> and not <code>Open</code>? To mimic Go's <code>os</code> package, which
+our exercise is emulating. The <code>os</code> package takes the opportunity
+to make the two commonest cases - open for read and create for
+write - the simplest, just <code>Open</code> and <code>Create</code>. <code>OpenFile</code> is the
+general case, analogous to the Unix system call <code>Open</code>. Here is
+the implementation of our <code>Open</code> and <code>Create</code>; they're trivial
+wrappers that eliminate common errors by capturing
+the tricky standard arguments to open and, especially, to create a file:
+<p>
+<pre> <!-- progs/file.go /^const/ /^}/ -->
+38 const (
+39 O_RDONLY = syscall.O_RDONLY
+40 O_RDWR = syscall.O_RDWR
+41 O_CREATE = syscall.O_CREAT
+42 O_TRUNC = syscall.O_TRUNC
+43 )
+<p>
+45 func Open(name string) (file *File, err os.Error) {
+46 return OpenFile(name, O_RDONLY, 0)
+47 }
+</pre>
+<p>
+<pre> <!-- progs/file.go /func.Create/ /^}/ -->
+49 func Create(name string) (file *File, err os.Error) {
+50 return OpenFile(name, O_RDWR|O_CREATE|O_TRUNC, 0666)
+51 }
+</pre>
+<p>
+Back to our main story.
Now that we can build <code>Files</code>, we can write methods for them. To declare
a method of a type, we define a function to have an explicit receiver
of that type, placed
@@ -592,43 +621,43 @@ in parentheses before the function name. Here are some methods for <code>*File</
each of which declares a receiver variable <code>file</code>.
<p>
<pre> <!-- progs/file.go /Close/ END -->
-38 func (file *File) Close() os.Error {
-39 if file == nil {
-40 return os.EINVAL
-41 }
-42 e := syscall.Close(file.fd)
-43 file.fd = -1 // so it can't be closed again
-44 if e != 0 {
-45 return os.Errno(e)
-46 }
-47 return nil
-48 }
-<p>
-50 func (file *File) Read(b []byte) (ret int, err os.Error) {
-51 if file == nil {
-52 return -1, os.EINVAL
-53 }
-54 r, e := syscall.Read(file.fd, b)
-55 if e != 0 {
-56 err = os.Errno(e)
-57 }
-58 return int(r), err
-59 }
-<p>
-61 func (file *File) Write(b []byte) (ret int, err os.Error) {
-62 if file == nil {
-63 return -1, os.EINVAL
-64 }
-65 r, e := syscall.Write(file.fd, b)
-66 if e != 0 {
-67 err = os.Errno(e)
+53 func (file *File) Close() os.Error {
+54 if file == nil {
+55 return os.EINVAL
+56 }
+57 e := syscall.Close(file.fd)
+58 file.fd = -1 // so it can't be closed again
+59 if e != 0 {
+60 return os.Errno(e)
+61 }
+62 return nil
+63 }
+<p>
+65 func (file *File) Read(b []byte) (ret int, err os.Error) {
+66 if file == nil {
+67 return -1, os.EINVAL
68 }
-69 return int(r), err
-70 }
-<p>
-72 func (file *File) String() string {
-73 return file.name
+69 r, e := syscall.Read(file.fd, b)
+70 if e != 0 {
+71 err = os.Errno(e)
+72 }
+73 return int(r), err
74 }
+<p>
+76 func (file *File) Write(b []byte) (ret int, err os.Error) {
+77 if file == nil {
+78 return -1, os.EINVAL
+79 }
+80 r, e := syscall.Write(file.fd, b)
+81 if e != 0 {
+82 err = os.Errno(e)
+83 }
+84 return int(r), err
+85 }
+<p>
+87 func (file *File) String() string {
+88 return file.name
+89 }
</pre>
<p>
There is no implicit <code>this</code> and the receiver variable must be used to access
@@ -658,7 +687,7 @@ We can now use our new package:
13 func main() {
14 hello := []byte(&quot;hello, world\n&quot;)
15 file.Stdout.Write(hello)
-16 f, err := file.Open(&quot;/does/not/exist&quot;, 0, 0)
+16 f, err := file.Open(&quot;/does/not/exist&quot;)
17 if f == nil {
18 fmt.Printf(&quot;can't open file; err=%s\n&quot;, err.String())
19 os.Exit(1)
@@ -712,26 +741,27 @@ Building on the <code>file</code> package, here's a simple version of the Unix u
24 case nr &gt; 0:
25 if nw, ew := file.Stdout.Write(buf[0:nr]); nw != nr {
26 fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, &quot;cat: error writing from %s: %s\n&quot;, f.String(), ew.String())
-27 }
-28 }
-29 }
-30 }
+27 os.Exit(1)
+28 }
+29 }
+30 }
+31 }
<p>
-32 func main() {
-33 flag.Parse() // Scans the arg list and sets up flags
-34 if flag.NArg() == 0 {
-35 cat(file.Stdin)
-36 }
-37 for i := 0; i &lt; flag.NArg(); i++ {
-38 f, err := file.Open(flag.Arg(i), 0, 0)
-39 if f == nil {
-40 fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, &quot;cat: can't open %s: error %s\n&quot;, flag.Arg(i), err)
-41 os.Exit(1)
-42 }
-43 cat(f)
-44 f.Close()
-45 }
-46 }
+33 func main() {
+34 flag.Parse() // Scans the arg list and sets up flags
+35 if flag.NArg() == 0 {
+36 cat(file.Stdin)
+37 }
+38 for i := 0; i &lt; flag.NArg(); i++ {
+39 f, err := file.Open(flag.Arg(i))
+40 if f == nil {
+41 fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, &quot;cat: can't open %s: error %s\n&quot;, flag.Arg(i), err)
+42 os.Exit(1)
+43 }
+44 cat(f)
+45 f.Close()
+46 }
+47 }
</pre>
<p>
By now this should be easy to follow, but the <code>switch</code> statement introduces some
@@ -829,10 +859,11 @@ and use it from within a mostly unchanged <code>cat()</code> function:
67 nw, ew := file.Stdout.Write(buf[0:nr])
68 if nw != nr {
69 fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, &quot;cat: error writing from %s: %s\n&quot;, r.String(), ew.String())
-70 }
-71 }
-72 }
-73 }
+70 os.Exit(1)
+71 }
+72 }
+73 }
+74 }
</pre>
<p>
(We could also do the wrapping in <code>main</code> and leave <code>cat()</code> mostly alone, except
@@ -1209,7 +1240,7 @@ together:
28 func main() {
29 ch := make(chan int) // Create a new channel.
30 go generate(ch) // Start generate() as a goroutine.
-31 for {
+31 for i := 0; i &lt; 100; i++ { // Print the first hundred primes.
32 prime := &lt;-ch
33 fmt.Println(prime)
34 ch1 := make(chan int)
@@ -1289,7 +1320,7 @@ Now <code>main</code>'s interface to the prime sieve is a channel of primes:
<pre> <!-- progs/sieve1.go /func.main/ /^}/ -->
46 func main() {
47 primes := sieve()
-48 for {
+48 for i := 0; i &lt; 100; i++ { // Print the first hundred primes.
49 fmt.Println(&lt;-primes)
50 }
51 }