Is bool thread safe?

[tomwilde]

Do I need a mutex for a bool?

[Daniel Morsing]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:04 PM, tomwilde <sedevel...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Yes.

Or send it on a channel.

[bryanturley]

Or just use a uint32 and pretend it is a bool with
http://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/
Probably faster than a mutex or a channel for just a single (pseudo) bool.

If the package documentation confuses you read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap

[Dave Cheney]

Here is an example.

http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/ssh/channel.go?repo=crypto#130

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