// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package sync import ( "sync/atomic" ) // Once is an object that will perform exactly one action. type Once struct { m Mutex done uint32 } // Do calls the function f if and only if the method is being called for the // first time with this receiver. In other words, given // var once Once // if once.Do(f) is called multiple times, only the first call will invoke f, // even if f has a different value in each invocation. A new instance of // Once is required for each function to execute. // // Do is intended for initialization that must be run exactly once. Since f // is niladic, it may be necessary to use a function literal to capture the // arguments to a function to be invoked by Do: // config.once.Do(func() { config.init(filename) }) // // Because no call to Do returns until the one call to f returns, if f causes // Do to be called, it will deadlock. // func (o *Once) Do(f func()) { if atomic.LoadUint32(&o.done) == 1 { return } // Slow-path. o.m.Lock() defer o.m.Unlock() if o.done == 0 { f() atomic.StoreUint32(&o.done, 1) } }