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+# Timeouts and Deadlines
+
+To abandon synchronous calls that run too long, use the select statement with time.After:
+```
+import "time"
+
+c := make(chan error, 1)
+go func() { c <- client.Call("Service.Method", args, &reply) } ()
+select {
+ case err := <-c:
+ // use err and reply
+ case <-time.After(timeoutNanoseconds):
+ // call timed out
+}
+```
+
+Note that the channel ` c ` has a buffer size of 1. If it were an unbuffered channel and the client.Call method took more than ` timeoutNanoseconds `, the channel send would block forever and the goroutine would never be destroyed.
+
+## References
+
+time.After: http://golang.org/pkg/time/#After
+
+select: http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Select_statements
+
+blog post: http://blog.golang.org/2010/09/go-concurrency-patterns-timing-out-and.html
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