更改goroutine睡眠时间

Question

In Go I can write such code for creating a gorouting that sleeps 5 sec.

func sleep(link chan interface{}){
    time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
    fmt.Println("I've slept for 5 sec")
    link <- struct {}{}
}

func main() {
    var link = make(chan interface{})
    go sleep(link)
    time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
    // here I want to change the remaining sleeping time of `sleep` goroutine to 0.5 sec
    <- link
}

What if in main function I change my mind and decide that the sleeper should sleep not 5 sec but 3. How can it done if goroutine already started to sleep (and sleeping, for example, for 1 sec)?

UPDATE

I mean is there something whereby I can manage that unique goroutine while it sleeps. Like giving commands to it about decreasing or increasing time of sleep:

func main() {
    // ...
    time.Sleep(1)
    something.ManageRemainingTime(10)
    time.Sleep(5)
    something.ManageRemainingTime(100)
    time.Sleep(8)
    something.ManageRemainingTime(0.5)
    // ...
}

Answer 1

If you just need a way to "wakeup" a sleeping goroutine, you could use sync.Once to ensure your function only gets called once, and then return a channel so you can set a sooner "trigger time", so something this:

func sleep(callback func(), seconds int) chan int {
    once := sync.Once{}
    wakeup := make(chan int)
    go func() {
        for sleep := range wakeup {
            go func() {
                time.Sleep(time.Duration(sleep) * time.Second)
                once.Do(callback)
            }()
        }
    }()
    wakeup <- seconds
    return wakeup
}


func main() {
        wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
        wg.Add(1)
        t := time.Now()
        wakeup := sleep(func() {
            fmt.Println("Hello, playground")
            wg.Done()
        }, 5)
        wakeup <- 2
        wg.Wait()
        fmt.Println(time.Since(t))
}

https://play.golang.org/p/BRNtaBPKpLW