</p>

<h3 id="Channel_types">Channel types</h3>

<p>
A channel provides a mechanism for
<a href="#Go_statements">concurrently executing functions</a>
to communicate by
<a href="#Send_statements">sending</a> and
<a href="#Receive_operator">receiving</a>
values of a specified element type.
The value of an uninitialized channel is <code>nil</code>.
</p>

<pre class="ebnf">

		}
		pre = cur
	}
	return true
}

// alignSparseEntries mutates src and returns dst where each fragment's
// starting offset is aligned up to the nearest block edge, and each
// ending offset is aligned down to the nearest block edge.
//
// Even though the Go tar Reader and the BSD tar utility can handle entries
// with arbitrary offsets and lengths, the GNU tar utility can only handle

func CutPrefix(s, prefix []byte) (after []byte, found bool) {
	if !HasPrefix(s, prefix) {
		return s, false
	}
	return s[len(prefix):], true
}

// CutSuffix returns s without the provided ending suffix byte slice
// and reports whether it found the suffix.
// If s doesn't end with suffix, CutSuffix returns s, false.
// If suffix is the empty byte slice, CutSuffix returns s, true.
//

</p>

<h3 id="Channel_types">Channel types</h3>

<p>
A channel provides a mechanism for
<a href="#Go_statements">concurrently executing functions</a>
to communicate by
<a href="#Send_statements">sending</a> and
<a href="#Receive_operator">receiving</a>
values of a specified element type.
The value of an uninitialized channel is <code>nil</code>.
</p>

<pre class="ebnf">

It allows a counting semaphore to be modeled by a buffered channel:
the number of items in the channel corresponds to the number of active uses,
the capacity of the channel corresponds to the maximum number of simultaneous uses,
sending an item acquires the semaphore, and receiving an item releases
the semaphore.
This is a common idiom for limiting concurrency.
</p>

<p>
This program starts a goroutine for every entry in the work list, but the