Two Small go-proxmox Fixes: A Watch Channel That Never Closed, and WithRetry

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:26:00 -0700

Here are two changes from the v0.5 to v0.7 stretch of go-proxmox. They’re too small for a post each. They’re worth knowing about if you write long-running tooling against Proxmox. One is a bug in code I wrote about in 2022. The other is a feature that replaces a retry loop everybody was writing for themselves.

The channel that only closed when things went well

In 2022 I wrote up how tasks and Watch work. Watch returns a channel of log lines. A goroutine tails the task log until the task stops. Then it closes the channel so you can range over it. Here is the tail loop from that post:

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Two Small go-proxmox Fixes: A Watch Channel That Never Closed, and WithRetry

The channel that only closed when things went well