go - golang: goroute with select doesn't stop unless I added a fmt.Print()

Question

I tried the Go Tour exercise #71

If it is run like go run 71_hang.go ok, it works fine.

However, if you use go run 71_hang.go nogood, it will run forever.

The only difference is the extra fmt.Print("") in the default in the select statement.

I'm not sure, but I suspect some sort of infinite loop and race-condition? And here is my solution.

Note: It's not deadlock as Go didn't throw: all goroutines are asleep - deadlock!

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

type Fetcher interface {
    // Fetch returns the body of URL and
    // a slice of URLs found on that page.
    Fetch(url string) (body string, urls []string, err error)
}

func crawl(todo Todo, fetcher Fetcher,
    todoList chan Todo, done chan bool) {
    body, urls, err := fetcher.Fetch(todo.url)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    } else {
        fmt.Printf("found: %s %q
", todo.url, body)
        for _, u := range urls {
            todoList <- Todo{u, todo.depth - 1}
        }
    }
    done <- true
    return
}

type Todo struct {
    url   string
    depth int
}

// Crawl uses fetcher to recursively crawl
// pages starting with url, to a maximum of depth.
func Crawl(url string, depth int, fetcher Fetcher) {
    visited := make(map[string]bool)
    doneCrawling := make(chan bool, 100)
    toDoList := make(chan Todo, 100)
    toDoList <- Todo{url, depth}

    crawling := 0
    for {
        select {
        case todo := <-toDoList:
            if todo.depth > 0 && !visited[todo.url] {
                crawling++
                visited[todo.url] = true
                go crawl(todo, fetcher, toDoList, doneCrawling)
            }
        case <-doneCrawling:
            crawling--
        default:
            if os.Args[1]=="ok" {   // *
                fmt.Print("")
            }
            if crawling == 0 {
                goto END
            }
        }
    }
END:
    return
}

func main() {
    Crawl("http://golang.org/", 4, fetcher)
}

// fakeFetcher is Fetcher that returns canned results.
type fakeFetcher map[string]*fakeResult

type fakeResult struct {
    body string
    urls []string
}

func (f *fakeFetcher) Fetch(url string) (string, []string, error) {
    if res, ok := (*f)[url]; ok {
        return res.body, res.urls, nil
    }
    return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("not found: %s", url)
}

// fetcher is a populated fakeFetcher.
var fetcher = &fakeFetcher{
    "http://golang.org/": &fakeResult{
        "The Go Programming Language",
        []string{
            "http://golang.org/pkg/",
            "http://golang.org/cmd/",
        },
    },
    "http://golang.org/pkg/": &fakeResult{
        "Packages",
        []string{
            "http://golang.org/",
            "http://golang.org/cmd/",
            "http://golang.org/pkg/fmt/",
            "http://golang.org/pkg/os/",
        },
    },
    "http://golang.org/pkg/fmt/": &fakeResult{
        "Package fmt",
        []string{
            "http://golang.org/",
            "http://golang.org/pkg/",
        },
    },
    "http://golang.org/pkg/os/": &fakeResult{
        "Package os",
        []string{
            "http://golang.org/",
            "http://golang.org/pkg/",
        },
    },
}

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